High Density electrical systems

[Somtaaw]

I think what I'm looking for is going to be in Near Future, or interstellar; but I could be missing a mod that does exactly what I want. All I want is a next generation of batteries, higher storage capacity, preferably without all sorts of extra power generation and/or engines

For creating a 0.5m sized probe, it's actually more efficient to just start dropping the 1.5m batteries in it somewhere instead of the 0.5m to keep a relatively compact probe of the same mass. Every single battery from the Z-100 all the way upto the Z-4K is identical mass to storage, there's no increase in effiency for pushing your power technology any further.... except better generation. Bigger and better solar panels, RTG's, but not better batteries.

Edited December 4, 2014 by Somtaaw

[somnambulist]

I think what I'm looking for is going to be in Near Future, or interstellar; but I could be missing a mod that does exactly what I want. All I want is a next generation of batteries, higher storage capacity, preferably without all sorts of extra power generation and/or engines.

Near Future Electrical, does what it says on the tin and includes 5 batteries with a higher ec/mass ratio than stock. If you don't want the reactors, solar panels, capacitors, etc. you can safely delete those folders as well as plugins.

[Somtaaw]

s'what I thought. But was worth checking to see if there was just a battery mod, without everything else. Thanks

[Somtaaw]

Okay, actually Near Future Electrical doesn't offer a higher EC/mass ratio, so I am still looking for any mod that has such. All stock batteries have a 20k EC to 1 mass ratio, if my math serves right (total EC / mass). The NFE batteries also have a 20k EC:1 mass ratio, they just happen to have vastly higher EC storage for similar volume occupation.

[Mecripp]

Sounds like you might just pick a battery and edit the cfg or make you a cfg patch for it for what you want.

[RainDreamer]

NFE has those capacitators that has very high density stored charge, which can be rapidly discharged into EC to be used for other things. It just have the draw back of storing charge very slowly. It is intended to be used for those Near Future Proplusion Engines that uses a lot of EC in a short time, but you can use it for anything else you want. Currently you need to manually discharge though.

[Somtaaw]

Was wondering that about the capacitors. Would they make good emergency "oh crap Im about to lose power to my probe seconds before it HAS to burn" moments?