Technical calculators that show their work
Accurate calculators for electrical, HVAC, mechanical, construction and solar work — each shows the formula, a worked example, assumptions and limitations. Find a tool by name or discipline, enter your values, and understand the result. No sign-up.
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Electrical
24 toolsFree electrical calculators: voltage drop, wire sizing, Ohm's law, kVA to amps, power factor correction and motor current. Metric and AWG, with formulas and examples.
HVAC & Climate
17 toolsFree HVAC calculators: cooling and heating BTU load estimates, round duct sizing with friction loss, CFM and air changes per hour, plus SEER, EER and COP conversions.
Mechanical Engineering
23 toolsFree mechanical calculators: gear ratio and RPM, torque to power conversion, bolt torque and preload, belt length and pulley sizing, tap drill sizes for metric and imperial threads.
Solar, Energy & Batteries
14 toolsFree solar and battery calculators: daily panel energy from peak sun hours, battery runtime with depth of discharge, full off-grid system sizing and charge controller sizing.
Construction
20 toolsFree construction calculators: concrete volume and mix ratios, CMU block and brick takeoffs, rebar weight, stud walls, stairs, roof pitch, gravel and asphalt tonnage — with formulas, waste factors and IRC/ACI checks.
Plumbing & Water
5 toolsFree plumbing calculators: pipe velocity and sizing, Darcy-Weisbach pressure loss, water volume in pipes and tank capacity. Metric and imperial, with design velocity guidance.
Thermodynamics & Heat Transfer
5 toolsFree thermodynamics calculators: wall conduction and U-value, thermal expansion, ideal gas law, sensible and latent heat, and heating power from flow — with sources and worked examples.
CNC & Manufacturing
5 toolsFree CNC and machining calculators: spindle RPM from cutting speed, table feed from chip load, cycle time, material removal rate and production planning.
Design guides
How each discipline's calculations fit together — load, conductor, protection, economics — with the right calculator at every step.
Frequently used calculators
Find the voltage drop in single-phase and 3-phase circuits — absolute volts, percentage, final load voltage and heat loss. Uses NEC Chapter 9 Table 8 conductor resistances.
Estimate how many BTU/h your room needs for cooling, based on floor area with documented adjustments for climate, insulation, sun, people and appliances.
Pick the smallest standard copper conductor whose ampacity covers your load current, with the ampacity margin, metric cross-section and the code caveats that apply.
Enter your daily energy consumption and get the battery bank, solar array and inverter sizes needed — with every sizing factor (DoD, autonomy, derate) explicit.
Enter driver and driven teeth to get the ratio, output speed and output torque — with the mesh efficiency and multi-stage notes spelled out.
Enter airflow and your design friction rate to get the round duct diameter, the next nominal size up, and the resulting air velocity — with the ASHRAE equation documented.
Leave exactly one field blank and the calculator solves it from the other two — and shows power as a bonus. The classic V = I × R with all its rearrangements.
Enter battery Ah and voltage, your load in watts, plus DoD and inverter efficiency, to get realistic runtime — not the naive Ah ÷ A figure.
Why IngCalc is different
Most calculator sites give you a number and nothing else. Every tool here documents the model it uses — the exact formula, the standard or reference behind the constants, the assumptions baked in, and the cases where the result will be wrong. You can defend the numbers you get here in front of a client, an inspector or a professor.
The library grows by category: complete clusters of related tools (wire sizing connects to voltage drop, which connects to motor current) rather than isolated one-off calculators.
How tools are developed
Each tool starts from a real, recurring technical question. The calculation model is separated from the page as pure math with documented inputs and outputs. Constants come from named sources — NEC conductor tables, ASHRAE methods, ISO standards, NREL data. Every engine is verified against reference values with automated tests before publication.
See the About page for the full development process, or meet the author.