Solar Panels still don't work

[harlequin_corps]

Normally don't post stuff like this. Put SE down a while ago, picked it back up again.
Solar panels on a base, in this case a moon base, only receive power when the first block laid down for the base is hit by the sun even though I have a solar fixture riser going up 400 meters that's in polar daylight 24/7.
Why..
would have thought they would have fixed this by now.

[Capt Fuzzy]

Hmm...
This could be a mod issue.
I've not had any problems with solar panels like what you are describing.

[Valen]

Sunray calculations are not a proper raycast you expect them to be. Nearby asteroid voxels might block it. Even nearby mountain voxels can be transparent to sunrays. Without a clear picture how your grid is built and it's surroundings it is hard to explain why it doesn't work for you. For all we know you might have the solar panels on a seperate grid that is only held in place by a landing gear/magnetic plate, and no batteries on it to draw the power from it.

[harlequin_corps]

Not playing with any mods.

And sunray calc? really?
No.. what happens is the panel itself is without relevance to the base. Only the coords of the first block placed are used to see if the base is in/out of the sun. The physical location of the panel is purely notional and are not used calculate in/out of sun.

[jafiwam]

Try reloading the world and copying / pasting the base temporarily to see if the copied base has the same problem.

What you are describing is not how Solar Panels behave. You might have a bug in your build though.

Try a sample build with a battery, a long line of blocks, and a solar panel laid out so the sun hits the battery first at dawn and see if the same thing happens.

[Antaiir]

You shall not fix, what is not broken.

[harlequin_corps]

Originally posted by jafiwam:

Try a sample build with a battery, a long line of blocks, and a solar panel laid out so the sun hits the battery first at dawn and see if the same thing happens.

You know. This is how I figured out how the solar panel coords are without relevance. The base battery is right on top of the first block I placed. While troubleshooting the panels I kept checking the battery. The panels wouldn't work so I would raise the riser up another 40 or so blocks, add another set of panels. The 4th set of panels were about 400 meters above the battery, but all 4 sets of panels are in the sun full polar sunlight. At one point I checked the battery and all of a sudden all the panels are working. So I thought to myself, to myself I thought, So. the solar panels don't work unless the battery is in the sun? The battery was about 150 meters below the first layer of solar panels and the solar panels wouldn't work unless the battery itself was in the sun. So when the battery was in the shade they wouldn't work, but as the sun peaked up and over to hit the battery the panels did work.

So I took the battery out.

And lo.. the solar panels continued to only work when the sun was hitting the first block placed, and as soon as the shadow creeped to cover the first block placed the panels stopped working.

Even though the panels themselves are completely drenched in the light of the sun at all times.

[Dan2D3D]

Hi, they may not want to fix because players would start making those very long pillars on the Moon, well looks like it.

To be honest, I use solar panels for a very short time when I play on the Moon, because I know where Uranium is around the Moon (always the same asteroids) so I use Reactors very early when starting there.

[Dan2D3D]

I should have specified the Moon is my Fav start so I know its Rich ore spot that is where all ores can be found within 1Km, and you must have played there a lot to know ;)