Space Engineers Solar Panels Not Charging Battery

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Space engineers solar panels not charging battery.

1 point 4 years ago. The solar panels show not generate 0 out of max power. Battery and solar panels it just needs to be there. Base is located near the polar region so the sun never dips too far below the horizon.

I ve tried to build a connector on my landing pad and docked it with the one. Power of the solar panel reached over 140kw at some points in the day but still yielded no power to my basic assembler. You can charge a battery with solar panels nuclear reactors or another ship station. The battery is a single block that has a similar function to the reactors in that it will power blocks on a grid it does not require any materials to be powered and does come with a small intial charge but beyond this it must collect energy either from solar panels large reactors and or small reactors before it can be put to use or even other batteries.

Continue this thread. In order for a solar panel to produce energy its solar face must be exposed to direct sunlight. The main issue is the panels do not provide power until well after sunrise and stop power well before sunset. Solar panels do not charge battery hello i have made a successfull landing on a planet with the std.

As i said this if statement has far too many random results that are not this situation but i was able to make it behave as i just described for a limited time by reloading. Sure thing here s a zip of the world. I ve got a little planetary explorer ship with a solar panel on top of it connected via small armor blocks to the actual ship. Even though from my previous screenshot the panels are well lit.

Solar panels are not charging the battery and the solar panels are running at 0 of max power when the batteries have some draw on them. Solar panels appear on some pre built ships most prominently the commercial types which are generated with large arrays at the fore. Ideally if your solar panels combined output exceeds your ship s power requirements and you set the battery to recharge the battery will simply recharge. In direct sunlight the solar panel isn t getting any power input and the batteries are completely dead.

I liken it to gasoline in the space engineers universe. It s currently landed on my base with a battery that has max power. Either the solar panel should be drawn from before the batteries or the solar panels power should go to suplement the draw on the batteries. You need to have your working power source on the same grid as your battery or have your ship docked to a grid with a power source.

Keep in mind that in order to charge a battery you need a power source duh. The solar panel didn t power my basic assembler to make power cells despite the assembler being turned on full up on materials plenty of space in the output inventory.