Capacitor recharge rate: Difference between revisions

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The full derivation may be found at http://forum.eveuniversity.org/viewtopic.php?f=222&t=30652.

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==== More recent testing by Kivena ====

Here's a big graph of current capacitor capacity (in percentage) over time since being drained to zero. The blue points are data points from my experiments. The black line is an equation based on Dust Puppy's research (see link at top of this page) which you can see at the top left corner of the image.

*C0 is 100, being as our maximum capacitor capacitor is always 100%.

*x0 is the time taken to recharge the capacitor in seconds, according to the in-game Show Info (x being, obviously, the current time since the capacitor was drained to zero)

*k is a constant (in Seamus' and Dust Puppy's calculations, they used it in a Tau = x0/k format) that Dust Puppy calculated as 4.8, Seamus worked out as 5.0, but I found 4.9 fitted a little better.

It's still not exactly right near zero, but the rest, after around 7-8% capacity, fits it perfectly.

The smaller inset graph (orange) shows a percentage of average recharge rate over current capacitor percentage, thus indicating how quickly the capacitor recharges as your energy restores. I didn't try to equationize (this is now a word) this one, but you can clearly see that the maximum capacitor recharge is 2.5x the average recharge, and that this occurs at 25% of capacitor capacity.

[[File:Capacitor Recharge.png]]

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 The full derivation may be found at http://forum.eveuniversity.org/viewtopic.php?f=222&t=30652.
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+==== More recent testing by Kivena ====
+Here's a big graph of current capacitor capacity (in percentage) over time since being drained to zero.  The blue points are data points from my experiments.  The black line is an equation based on Dust Puppy's research (see link at top of this page) which you can see at the top left corner of the image.
+*C0 is 100, being as our maximum capacitor capacitor is always 100%.
+*x0 is the time taken to recharge the capacitor in seconds, according to the in-game Show Info (x being, obviously, the current time since the capacitor was drained to zero)
+*k is a constant (in Seamus' and Dust Puppy's calculations, they used it in a Tau = x0/k format) that Dust Puppy calculated as 4.8, Seamus worked out as 5.0, but I found 4.9 fitted a little better.
+It's still not exactly right near zero, but the rest, after around 7-8% capacity, fits it perfectly.
+The smaller inset graph (orange) shows a percentage of average recharge rate over current capacitor percentage, thus indicating how quickly the capacitor recharges as your energy restores.  I didn't try to equationize (this is now a word) this one, but you can clearly see that the maximum capacitor recharge is 2.5x the average recharge, and that this occurs at 25% of capacitor capacity.
+[[File:Capacitor Recharge.png]]
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