Electric current

Amperes and the old CGS electromagnetic units.

6 units

1 Ampere = 1000 Milliampere (exact)

Quick table

Sample conversions from Ampere to Milliampere
AmpereMilliampere
0.1100
0.5500
11000
22000
55000
1010000
2525000
5050000
100100000

How this system works

The ampere is an SI base unit. Milliamp hours on a battery are charge, not current — see Charge for that conversion. The abampere (10 A) and statampere survive only in older electromagnetic CGS texts.

Base unit: ampere. Ampere is SI; Milliampere is Metric.

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