>>23416635
>even amuro managed to take out the elmeth's bits
Amuro is The top level newtype with the best Gundum, if anyone could it would have been him.

>Gundam has what is essentially a miniaturized battleship cannon as it's main armament, and it runs out of energy many times
"E-caps"
https://gundam.fandom.com/wiki/Gundam_Wiki:Technology#Energy_capacitor_(E-CAP)
Before the Gundam they couldn't store that type of energy, they needed to generate it when needed.
The whole "5 time the power" is buzzword when it needed to pretend to be a super-robot mecha.
Basivally the funnels are just working on stored energy and focusing it on weaker strikes, the Elmeth bits needed to recharge.

But yes, powering the damn "remote weapon" is a critical detail.
And there are big holes in the terminology in that "funnel" are supposed to use stored energy, bits produce their own, but the shows don't stick to that rules and take whatever name sound cooler.