question about personal roboport

[Pay Child Suport]

does it require battery or is a portable fusion reactor enough?

[Fel]

All functionnal equipments for the power armor have a small internal battery, so just having power like the portable fusion reactor will be fine.

Extra batteries are there in case you consume more power than you produce (for a bit at least).

[Ghevd]

A reactor should be enough but a battery or two isn't going to hurt.

Plus you can have more than one personal robo port so you'll want batteries if using multiple ports.

For personal lasers I'd say batteries are a must. I only use 2 batteries and upgrade them when available.

[Pay Child Suport]

yeah that answers it. i'll just gonna mass movespeed over batteries if fusion reactor pretty much answers a lot of power needs

[Malidictus]

A personal Reactor doesn't come anywhere close to supporting the draw from a few Roboports. They burn through their internal batteries fairly quickly if you're constructing larger chunks, and it takes a while to go back to full power. I would highly recommend batteries, as they can soak up the draw while working.

My current setup has 5 standard Personal Roboports supporting 50 bots, and two Fission Reactors still take several minutes to charge those once depleted. That's charging the Roboports to a point where the Robots will actually deploy. Charging them to full takes even longer.

[Nonotorious]

Higher quality roboports have a higher power draw to more quickly charge robots, i would recommend 2-4 batteries depending on how much you are using your bots to demolish or construct things because they can quickly drain everything if you are using more than 50.

[argrond]

They are getting enegry from all available sources. You may be wanting batteries for backup energy source, when you consume more energy by them than you produce by portable reactors. Works for some time though, if you are consuming more than producing for too long, you will obviously run out of energy, with respective consequences. Good thing if that is not happening when you have hostinle fauna nearby.

[knighttemplar1960]

If you are going to do more than place small blue prints you'll want 1 battery per roboport if you don't want to have to wait around for the roboports to recharge.

[Fletch]

Just to nit-pick: a battery only stores excess electricity, it produces none itself. Its a buffer.

Whether you use batteries or not, you still need a means of producing the power: portable solar panels, portable fission reactors, or portable fusion reactors are the options.

solar < fission < fusion