It’s fun to say the atomic battery mod mostly used to raise capacity extremely thus you don’t have to carry tons of batteries which would take a lot of your space. Instead, you get problems with weight.
Let’s make a little analisys:
A battery
Capacity: 100 charges (1 for 1 battery)
Volume: 1 (0.01 per battery)
Weight: .1 kg (.001 per battery)
A plutonium cell (1)
Capacity: 500 charges (PER ONE CELL)
Volume: 0.2 (1 for 5)
Weight: .08 kg
No need to say:
Amount-Type-Volume-Weight
Amount is certain thus we’ll have same charges.
500 - battery - 5 (exact) - .5 (exact)
1 - plutonium cell - 0 (0.2) - .08 (exact)
As we can see plutonium is far more powerful: (in 25x times by volume and 6.25 by weight).
Now, let’s see the difference as we load plutonium cell in an atomic UPS (Yes, atomic UPS is possible and very powerful, having 100K as capacity).
Atomic UPS (500): 1.01 kg
Atomic UPS (3000): 1.41 kg
400 gramm for every 5 plutonium cells. (Exact weigth of 5 plutonium cells)
While if we take a welder with extra battery mod and load it out then…
Welder (0): 4.2 kg
Welder (1000): 5.2 kg
1 kg for every 1000 batteries. If we compare them:
2 plutonium cells - 1000 - .4 - .16 kg
1000 batteries - 1000 - 10 - 1 kg
We can easily see there’s the same difference: 25 : 6.25
So, output: atomic mod IS NOT useless. It very powerful and plutonium cells have far more better characteristics.
Thus, easy output: DON’T LOAD ANY ATOMIC ITEM WITH TONS OF PLUTONIUM.
Since they can easily obtain tons of batteries they should have more careful use.
