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First question comes from the discounts for Armor Mods that come from the Armor Storm's "Enhanced Tank:"
You gain the Powered Armored Proficiency feat and access to improved armor. This might be the result of your own engineering abilities, having earned the trust of contacts that can get you experimental equipment, or a powerful patron giving you gear not available to the general public to help you achieve mutual goals. You can add one more upgrade to your armor than its normal maximum number of upgrade slots. If you add this bonus upgrade to heavy armor, you can select an upgrade normally limited to powered armor. An upgrade placed in this bonus slot costs half the normal credit amount.
However!
A creature can personalize armor by purchasing and installing armor upgrades, described below, which add bonuses or customized abilities to armor. Some individuals keep a collection of upgrades at hand, swapping them out as needed (requiring 10 minutes to replace the unit and resecure all connections). Explanations of entries for upgrades’ statistics follow.
So does this mean that all 1-slot armor upgrades that can be placed in your chosen armor are Half Price, and they only have to make a 10-minute stop in your bonus slot first? Or (more likely) can your "bonus slot" upgrades only be used in your bonus slot, and short out when inserted anywhere else?
My second question is about Armor Upgrades on your Light Armor while wearing Powered Armor:
The cockpit of powered armor is too small to fit a person wearing heavy armor. If you’re wearing light armor while in powered armor, you gain the higher of the EAC bonuses and the higher of the KAC bonuses between the two suits of armor, and you take the worse maximum Dexterity bonus and armor check penalty. Powered armor is normally designed to be operated by any roughly humanoid creature of Small or Medium size—only creatures not matching those criteria must have the armor tailored to fit them (see Adjusting Armor on page 196).
Seems well and good, but the Upgrades section of Powered Armor makes no mention of your other armor, only listing the amount of upgrades that can be installed in the Powered Armor itself. Does that mean you can still use Armor Upgrades attached to your Light Armor? If so: which ones?