Enter apparent power in kVA to convert it to volt-amps (VA).
How to Use the kVA to VA Calculator
One field: enter apparent power in kVA, and the volt-amp equivalent appears immediately.
VA = kVA × 10005 kVA is 5,000 VA. There's no electrical concept to unpack here — "kilo" means a thousand, same as it does for kilograms or kilometers, and that's the entire operation this calculator performs.
What's actually worth knowing is when to reach for one unit over the other, since both describe the exact same quantity — apparent power — at different scales. kVA is the unit you'll see on generators, transformers, UPS systems, and panel or facility-level load calculations, where the numbers run from single digits into the hundreds or thousands. VA shows up on individual device nameplates — a small UPS, a laptop charger, a router — where the load rarely clears a few hundred and writing "0.15 kVA" instead of "150 VA" would just be an awkward way to say the same thing.
So the direction of conversion mostly follows the direction of the problem: pulling a device-level spec into a whole-panel load calculation means converting VA up to kVA; checking whether a single appliance fits within a generator's rated capacity sometimes means going the other way, breaking a kVA figure back down to VA to compare against a nameplate.
Nothing here touches real power or power factor — for that, use the kVA to kW or kVA to Watts calculators instead. This one only ever moves a number three decimal places.