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I recently gave one of these a go. They'll let you fire beam lasers a lot longer, usually with their thermal overload kicking in before the capacitor runs out. That makes them good for ambush and sneak attack: use an array of beam lasers to take a shield down quickly and easily, then switch to something with very low capacitor drain such as multicannon or frag cannons. I can now take on ships much bigger than I used to.

But the malus to recharge means that once your capacitors are empty,  if you weren't able to take the shields down, you're either going to be spending a longer time not firing anything, or bouncing a lot of ordnance against a shield.