As electricity plays an increasingly important role in people’s lives, solar panel systems, as well as a variety of different electrical systems, continue to enter people’s lives. In order to better understand how these systems work, more and more people are learning about electrical systems, including the meaning of the units of measurement of various physical quantities and the conversion formulas between different units of measurement. In this article, we will introduce you to the two different units of power measurement: kilowatts and watts, and how to convert between them.
Before learning how to convert two physical quantities, we first need to understand the meaning of kilowatts and watts.
1. What is a kilowatt?
A kilowatt is a unit of power. It is the same as the watt, and is used to describe how much electricity an electrical system needs to do its job. The larger the kW value, the more power an appliance consumes in the same amount of time, and the smaller the kW value, the less power an appliance consumes in the same amount of time.
Although both watts and kilowatts are also units of power, kilowatts are more commonly used as a unit of power in the application of solar energy systems, which include not only the power level of solar panels, but also the power of various components.
2. What is a watt?
Watt is a unit of power, often used to describe the electrical system to complete a job how much power consumption. The larger the watt value, the more power the appliance consumes, and the smaller the watt value, the less power it consumes.
3. How to Convert from Kilowatts to Watts
With the definitions of watts and kilowatts in mind, I’m sure you’re ready to learn more about how to convert between the two. First of all, watts and kilowatts are essentially units of measurement of power, so the conversion between the two does not require the introduction of intermediate physical quantities, but only according to the International System of Units in the multiplier relationship between the conversion, the specific formula is as follows:
1KW = 1000W
1W = 0.001KW
The following will explain the specific meaning of the above formula: when you need to convert the value of kilowatts for the value of watts, you only need to multiply the value by 1000, when you need to convert the value of watts for the value of kilowatts, you only need to divide the value by 1000.
In order to help you better understand and grasp the above conversion formula, the following is an example of a solar energy system for specific calculations. When the total power consumption of your home appliances is 3200W, then the size of the solar panel system you need is 3200W ÷ 1000 = 3.2KW.
4. Conversion between the total energy consumption of household appliances and the size of solar panel system
The watt to kilowatt conversion method is widely used to convert between solar panel system size and total household energy consumption. For household appliances, most of the power will be measured in watts, but the solar panel system needs to be responsible for supplying energy to all household appliances, and its generating power should be greater than or equal to the sum of the power of all household appliances, so it is obviously not appropriate to use watts as the unit of measurement for the solar panel system, and the size of most solar energy systems on the market will be measured in kilowatts, which is convenient for you to choose and purchase according to your Most of the solar systems on the market will be measured in kilowatts, so that you can choose and buy according to your home electricity consumption.
Therefore, when you need to design the size of your own solar panel system, you need to convert the total energy consumption of your home appliances into kilowatts by using the above formula.
