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HCDS / Small Ship Slim Battery
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Type: Mod
Mod category: Block, Respawn Ship, Obsolete
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19 Aug, 2015 @ 12:22pm
23 Oct, 2015 @ 3:58pm
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HCDS / Small Ship Slim Battery

Description
Note: this item is a part of a larger client and server mod, HCDS. The contents are available separately for your convenience.

SMALL SHIP SLIM BATTERY

Function: Slim Batteries are a cheaper alternative to vanilla batteries or capacitors for small ships. They take only a third of their volume, but consequently are only 25% as effective.

This 3x2x1 block is a simple modification of vanilla Keen battery. The indicators on the larger sides are rotated differently to suit various block orientation on ships. Block efficiency is not at 33% because it misses on economy of scale, if you will.

With the fresher game updates the cost of Cell components has been decreased, and the block may seem obsolete, but it is still useful as a cheap capacitor or in games with custom industry balance.

Colorable, DX11-compatible, with simple construction models - it relies on parent block resources.
14 Comments
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Clanner Jake 6 May, 2016 @ 10:01pm 
nm.. they seem to be working now. may this latest update is crazy glitchy. sorry about that.
Clanner Jake 6 May, 2016 @ 9:31pm 
did they break your mod, the battery indicator doesn't work now...
Clanner Jake 6 Apr, 2016 @ 9:40am 
Thanks for the reply, I have to say these do make my ship design much more compact. Flight testing is today. Would you consider a mod block collaboration if I do the design mock up, I'm not that experienced with modeling or at all with space engineers or I'd run at it solo.
ashein  [author] 5 Apr, 2016 @ 4:12am 
Yeah, the battery performs at 1/4 of the vanilla batteries -- 0.27MWh of max power stored, max charge/discharge rate of 1.08MW. It also behaves as vanilla battery before that patch that converts power cells to scrap upon grinding, so when you build this one, you get zero charge, but you're free to disassemble it without losing the cells.
Clanner Jake 4 Apr, 2016 @ 9:00pm 
is the 25% in capacity, or also in drain/charge rate? just so i'm not surprised as i can handle all 3 issues no-prob.(the last two are survival friendly to me)
ExessiveGK 14 Feb, 2016 @ 8:11am 
Randomly starting working today, not sure why, hold charge and discharging, not sure why they weren't working b4. but as right now slim battery is working in both survival and creative."for me"
ExessiveGK 12 Feb, 2016 @ 11:12am 
There seems to be seomthing wrong with vanilla batteries too it would seem as well. If I load a world all vanilla and it has a battery it will not work, I have to remove it and replace it in creative or SP survival for it to work proplerly
The slim battery when using the mod will place in both creative and survival but it just a place holder block all textures are there but it doesn't do anything, it does show up in the menu but does't have have anything whether it be charging or dishcharging or both.
ashein  [author] 12 Feb, 2016 @ 9:52am 
@Shoobox, could you be more precise with what went wrong? It's testing fine for me (on SP only, though). The energy mechanics are still messed, though, so the alleged fix in 01.121 doesn't work (see my post with case studies [forums.keenswh.com], it's the same both for the vanilla small ship battery and the modded one)
ExessiveGK 12 Feb, 2016 @ 8:30am 
need updated please stop working after latest patch
Lord Helios 24 Nov, 2015 @ 12:30pm 
Nice I was trying to make a small Drone to explore, and the batteries were to big! Very Cool!!!