311sam, I totally agree with you. My first few modded controllers were from Evil. I didn't hardly like their setup at all. I had the MasterMod, Rapidfire Standard, and the Auto Burst. I'm not saying that they didn't function well, the jitter was alright, rapid fires were set to high, they enjoyed to skip on me several times. Not being USB programmable limited my like-ability of those controllers by a lot. In all reality, I believed the MasterMod was a waste of $300. That's my opinion. But, battery life does indeed have a lot to do with your controllers efficiency, indefinitely the LEDs.