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    Power Supply Unit Mk3 (Bladefalcon) 2015-09-10

    It works as advertised. This unit has substantially lower mass for the same power output as my own fudge built reactor, and it's logic is vastly easier to implement and string together. Plus it appears to be less prone to bugging out. This is a highly valuable resource.
    Zackey_TNT
    Zackey_TNT
    Thank you for your review, Be on the lookout for better generators from blade falcon soon
    This docked reactor uses 2542 power reactor blocks in 41 different groups for a 763,149.7 raw energy per second. 300 energy per second per power reactor block is respectable but could be improved further [deleted upon request]. That said, the mass difference isn't that important as power reactors often accounts for less than half of the docked reactor total mass.

    The power supply beam is a 1441:1441 cannon slaved power supply beam with the following stats.
    tick rate: 50ms
    cooldown: 2500ms
    duration: 2500ms
    power consumption: 43,230e/hit (864,600e/s)
    power supplied: 34,584e/hit (691,680e/s)

    At first glance, the power consumption per second is greater than the docked reactor's energy generation. However, [deleted upon request] the beam doesn't really fire 100% of the time reducing the average power consumption per second.
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    In practice, this docked reactor supplied roughly 32.3 million energy in one minute (i.e.
    roughly 540,000 supplied energy per second) [deleted upon request].

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    Overall this generator effectively supplies roughly 97 energy per block which is a respectable amount for a reactor of this size (theoretically, most efficients reactors should be around 200 supplied energy per block, while most small box-like reactors range from 50 to 110 supplied energy per block).

    If I could rate 4.5 stars I would, as this reactor is still very usable and reactors of this size aren't completely trivial to build. [deleted upon request]
    I stamp my seal of approval. Generator uses my checkerboard swivel technology.
    Pretty well rounded good working system. Definitely giving it a try-out on plenty of my vessels.