Portable battery charger

The Portable battery charger is a device that can recharge exosuit batteries from the energy stored inside Zone artifacts.

## Usage

Double-click on the PBC. In its interface, select the battery you want to recharge, and an eligible artifact as a power source. It will start draining the artifact power into the battery, displaying the time to full charge.

You can use many artifacts at once, accelerating the process.

With proper timing, artifacts could be pulled out of the charger when their capacity is almost depleted. You can use those artifacts for other purposes without any issues or degradation.

The PBC is also the only method of recharging valuable High capacity batteries, used mainly for powering Cloaking exoskeletons.

## Location

Given as a reward for Lost voltmeter by Winsor.

## Charging speed and capacity

* **Black Energy: 14 hours per battery, capacity 24%.**

	+ can be bought from Sakharov for 1500RU apiece. The typical Duty reputation at this point in the game is 250+, which makes recharging your batteries at Petrenko cheaper than this. However, it can be convenient when merchants aren't readily available.
* **Sparkler: 8h 45min per battery, capacity 42%.** Transmutation chain through Droplets and Wrenched requires, per one full charge:

	+ Canned food ×17

	+ Bandage ×30

	+ Sausage ×11

	+ Vodka ×14

	+ Tushkano Head ×17 (49 tushkanos)

	+ Dog Tail ×30 (156 dogs)

	+ completed quests: Sub-machine gun for Yurik, PDA of deceased Krysyuk, and the Droplets recipe found at the Dump.

	+ 15-30 ingame min cooking for one batch
* **Flash: 8h 45min per battery, capacity 46%.** Transmutation through Stone Blood and Wrenched requires, per one full charge:

	+ Canned food ×11

	+ Sausage ×11

	+ Energy drink ×11

	+ Bandage ×11

	+ Vodka ×7

	+ Rat Spleen ×11 (38 rats)

	+ Dog Tail ×11 (56 dogs)

	+ Pseudodog Tail ×11 (36 pseudodogs)

	+ completed quests: PDA of deceased Krysyuk, Walking dead, Tentacles for Prapor

	+ 15-30 ingame min cooking for one batch
* **Moonlight: 6h 22 min per battery, capacity 73%.** Transmutation through Flash, Jellyfish, Gravi requires, per one full charge:

	+ Canned food ×17

	+ Sausage ×11

	+ Energy drink ×11

	+ Bandage ×17

	+ Vodka ×4

	+ Dog Tail ×16 (84 dogs)

	+ Tushkano Head ×13 (37 tushkanos)

	+ Rat Spleen ×11 (38 rats)

	+ Pseudodog Tail ×11 (36 pseudodogs)

	+ Bloodsucker Tentacles ×3 (14 bloodsuckers)

	+ completed quests: PDA of deceased Krysyuk, Walking dead, Tentacles for Prapor, Gauss pistol prototype

	+ 15-30 ingame min cooking for one batch
* **Battery: 5h 36min per battery, capacity 77%.** Transmutation through Flash, Mica (Jellyfish, Thorn, Slime) requires, per one full charge:

	+ Canned food ×9

	+ Sausage ×15

	+ Bread ×6

	+ Energy Drink ×11

	+ Bandage ×13

	+ Vodka ×3

	+ Rat Spleen ×11 (38 rats)

	+ Tushkano Head ×9 (25 tushkanos)

	+ Dog Tail ×16 (84 dogs)

	+ Pseudodog Tail ×11 (38 pseudodogs)

	+ 20-40 min ingame cooking for one batch

	+ completed quests: PDA of deceased Krysyuk, Body armor for Fiend, Walking dead, Tentacles for Prapor, found Mica recipe at Radar and Thorn recipe at Agroprom
* **Ruby Battery: 56 min per battery, capacity 464%.** Transmutation with same chain as Battery requires, per one full charge:

	+ Canned food ×2

	+ Sausage ×2

	+ Bread ×1

	+ Energy Drink ×2

	+ Bandage ×2

	+ Vodka ×1

	+ Rat Spleen ×2 (6 rats)

	+ Tushkano Head ×2 (4 tushkanos)

	+ Dog Tail ×3 (14 dogs)

	+ Pseudodog Tail ×2 (6 pseudodogs)

	+ 25-45 min ingame cooking for one batch

	+ completed quests: Radioset, PDA of deceased Krysyuk, Body armor for Fiend, Walking dead, Tentacles for Prapor, found Mica recipe at Radar and Thorn recipe at Agroprom
* **Plasma Caterpillar: 28 min per battery, capacity 100%.** Transmutation requires, per one full charge:

	+ Bezoar ×1.78 (3.5 controllers)

	+ Plague Rat's Spleen ×1.78 (12 plagued rats)

	+ 5 min ingame cooking for one batch

	+ recipe bought from Sakharov for 50000RU after Switch off psi-radiation