Talk:Ion Power Cell/@comment-188.134.129.161-20170201054730/@comment-99.107.241.212-20170825223540

I think someone said it takes 22 min to fully charge a normal power cell in a power cell recharge station. So, 22 x 5 = 110 min / 60 min/hr = you're looking at almost 2 hours. *cough*

Granted... with the ghost update, what most people do now is just toss 6 into the Cyclops with the thermal recharger mod and park it just inside the inactive lava zone to let it passively recharge while they go do whatever they want (explore the lava zone in prawn suit, build a base in lost river, etc).

Some folks build moonpools, and swap the powercells out on their prawn / seamoth, b/c the cells seem to charge faster in those then they do in a power cell recharge station.

So, if you want to go to the trouble, you can swap 2 cells at a time into a prawn and dock it in a moonpool. Then swap to the next 2 cells from your cyclops, etc, etc, etc.. until you recharge everything.

Honestly... since we have so many power plants for bases, I'm not sure why we can build a power conduit / cable to plug into the cyclops when near a base. Let it siphon off the thousands of units of energy the base produces instead of having to manually lug around power cells.