[REQ] Anybody got batteries that work right with 1.3?

[panthercules]

Well, I've been running some version of Redwine's battery life mod with 1.3, but had been spending so much time just testing and tweaking other stuff that I'd never really checked out the battery performance. Finally tried it last night and was getting really short endurance submerged, so I de-activated the mod with JSGME and tried again - this time it was even shorter - ridiculously so.

I started playing around with minitweaker and was able to stretch it a bit, but I eventually hit a wall and no matter how I changed the parameters I was playing with I could not get more than about 32 hours on batteries at 2 knots with my Salmon class test boat (best info I've found online was that endurance was supposed to be 48 hours at 2 knots, but I'm not sure how accurate/legit that figure is). And, even when I got that far, it took me over 10 hours to recharge batteries from 25% to 100%, which something tells me must be too long.

I remember a lot of discussion about battery life a while back, but I can't remember if anybody ever found a solution that works since the new patch. The only things I could find that seemed to be obvious candidates to play with were the "milesSubmerged" and "knotsSubmerged" factors in the subname_sim files, but like I said no matter how I played around with these I could never get more than about 32 hours (lots of different combinations gave me 32 hours, but never could get more). I was leery of screwing with the other parameters 'cause i only wanted to affect battery life and not max speed or speed at particular telegraph settings and I was concerned that the other parameters would probably mess with those.

Does anybody know the secret for getting reasonably accurate battery life and recharge results with the 1.3 patch? If so, can you let me in on it?

Thanks

[edit] well, that was weird - turns out I don't think I actually have been able to change the battery life/discharge rate at all, with any of my tweaking (went back and checked the stock/Redwine results with my standardized testing approach and got the same results - always about 30-32 hours at 2 knots in a Salmon class boat no matter what numbers I picked (also tried to mess with the other parameters (rpm and power), with same results).

However, while I could not seem to affect the battery discharge rate, I was able to radically affect (lengthen) the battery recharge rate with some of these changes.

Net result, though, was still no usable outcome. Tried looking at this .sim file in S3D, but couldn't seem to be able to change even as many parameters as I could in minitweaker - just the power and rpm factors, as best I could tell (still trying to get the hang of S3D so maybe I missed something there).

Any ideas/suggestions, anybody?