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The Powerhouse of the Cell

A proof-of-concept submarine highly resistant to overvolt and undervolt.
It consists of the following components:
- Reactor with an attached reactor controller circuit for controlling demanded load.
- Battery bank (at max charge rate) in parallel with a one-way bypass relay for reactor power.
- Circuit box for calculating what the reactor load should be.

The main circuit box takes the load from a junction box on the output end, and either subtracts (if the batteries are too full) or adds (if the batteries are too low) some power before passing that value onto the reactor controller circuit. This results in the reactor producing just enough power to keep the batteries around 50%, and thus they can absorb excess power from the reactor or pick up slack if the reactor isn't producing enough.

The downside to this is that the two junction boxes in the back will always make clicking noises because they are technically being undervolted (though it has no effect).