Small Battery

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Small Battery
Icon Block Small Battery.png

Category: Power
Function: stores power

Fits small grid
Mass: 146.4 kg
Power: 0.2 MW
PCU: 15
Size: 1x1x1
Time to Build: 8 sec

Data Controls: [edit] [purge] (?)

The Small Battery is a functional block which stores power from Reactors, Solar Panels, Hydrogen Engines, and Wind Turbines for later use. It is a cheap, smaller, weaker (one twentieth of the throughput) variant of the Icon Block Battery.png Battery.

Usage

For usage details, see Icon Block Battery.png Battery.

These small batteries are not efficient on miners or haulers, they are better suited for building small, light-weight, short-range grids, such as drones. You can also keep a Small Battery that is set to "Recharge" on a vehicle, and when your main batteries have run dry and you need emergency power to kickstart the Hydrogen engine, you switch it to "Auto".

Power

  • Max output: 200 kW
  • Max input: 200 kW
  • Max stored power: 50 kWh

Construction

If progression is enabled, build a Icon Block Basic Assembler.png Basic Assembler first to unlock it.

It is very compact at 1x1x1 blocks size and has no built-in Icon Block Control Panel.png Control Panel. Small Batteries have mount points on all six sides.

Right after being built, it is one third charged with energy. As with all batteries, grinding it down turns the Icon Item Power Cell.png Power Cells into Icon Item Scrap Metal.png Scrap Metal.

Recipe

Icon Block Small Battery.png Small Battery
ComponentLarge Ship/Station
Required
Large Ship/Station
Optional
Small Ship
Required
Small Ship
Optional
Icon Item Steel Plate.png Steel Plate22
Icon Item Power Cell.png Power Cell2
Icon Item Construction Comp..png Construction Comp.11
Icon Item Computer.png Computer2


Functional Blocks