Capacitance Converter

About This Tool

This Capacitance Converter is a critical tool for electronics engineers, hobbyists, and students. It converts units of capacitance, which is the ability of a system to store an electric charge. The base unit is the farad (F).

Capacitance is a fundamental property of capacitors, one of the three passive linear electronic components along with resistors and inductors. This tool covers the vast range of units used in practice, from the very large farad to the tiny picofarad, which is common for components in modern circuits.

Tips & Features

• The Farad (F): The farad is the SI unit of capacitance. It is defined as the capacitance of a capacitor that has a potential difference of one volt when it is charged by one coulomb of electricity.
• Practical Units: The farad is a very large unit. In practice, most capacitors are measured in smaller units: microfarads (µF), nanofarads (nF), and picofarads (pF).
• EMU vs. ESU: The abfarad and statfarad are obsolete capacitance units from the CGS electromagnetic and electrostatic systems, respectively.