Space Engineers Solar Panels Not Charging Battery

Solar panel uses natural sunlight to produce power.

Space engineers solar panels not charging battery. Solar panels do not charge battery hello i have made a successfull landing on a planet with the std. I ve tried to build a connector on my landing pad and docked it with the one. Sure thing here s a zip of the world. I can spek duh ingrish too.

The solar panels show not generate 0 out of max power. 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. I liken it to gasoline in the space engineers universe. This subreddit is about the video game space engineers a space themed sandbox game with creation.

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. You can charge a battery with solar panels nuclear reactors or another ship station. Solar panels appear on some pre built ships most prominently the commercial types which are generated with large arrays at the fore. Currently the only way to do this is to skip using batteries entirely but that wastes excess solar production.

Battery and solar panels it just needs to be there. In direct sunlight the solar panel isn t getting any power input and the batteries are completely dead. In order for a solar panel to produce energy its solar face must be exposed to direct sunlight. It s currently landed on my base with a battery that has max power.

Keep in mind that in order to charge a battery you need a power source duh. 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. 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. 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.

Continue this thread. Even though from my previous screenshot the panels are well lit. 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. 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.

The main issue is the panels do not provide power until well after sunrise and stop power well before sunset. 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.