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Since you are probably not talking about kilometeramperehours, might want to fix the unit to just Ah.

Battery packs are usually marketed with their capacity in milliamp-hours. I thought the 15-20k mAh made it pretty clear that we were taking about a 15000-20000 mAh battery pack.

They are, but SI prefixes are always combined, not used together. 15k mAh is just wrong. The correct way to write it is 15Ah.

I believe the k in “15k” is a suffix and thus not beholden to the rules of SI prefixes. In this case it is used as shorthand for “thousand”, and this usage is prevalent even in countries where SI units are not commonly used.

Insisting on changing 15k mAh to 15 Ah is the same as insisting on changing 15000 mAh to 15 Ah - which seems to be a matter of personal preference more than anything.

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