Modular Armor personal solar panels/batteries do not seem to work (15.x)

[Subak]

Batteries int he bottom right never show a charge. It doesn't matter what you do.

It doesn't seem there actually is any charge based on construction robots.

Things mostly work anyway and maybe it is just UI and early construction bots just starve for power even if you have panels/batteries.

On my first play through there seemed to be a big difference hitting mr fusion... like none of it ever had any power at all and then it all did.

[KatherineOfSky]

THey do work. Most of the energy is probably going to charge up personal roboports FIRST, and anything else like nigh vision goggles, etc. THEN, any additional charge goes to batteries. Solar panels give very little electricity, so it's like that it's all diverted to whatever you have in your armor rather than batteries.

[Subak]

No, I've heard this before. You can stick just a panel and just a battery in there and nothing.

[Subak]

It's some kind of bug. I loaded my current save and now have charge.

Out of the gate, getting mod armor and sticking a batt + panel in it consistently showed a black battery forever.

[KatherineOfSky]

引用自 D-FENS：

It's some kind of bug. I loaded my current save and now have charge.

Out of the gate, getting mod armor and sticking a batt + panel in it consistently showed a black battery forever.

Ok. I just wanted to make sure the power wasn't being consumed by other entities :-)

[Subak]

I'm not sure what it is. At first I thought it was the .x branch just assuming it wouldve been sorted elsewhere. But I'm only on second play through, the first never corrected itself. I'd played mp games before and had it work fine.

[Riggs]

I keep seeing more posts about "my personal battery is not charging", so was I also confused about this issue. All threads and wiki answers like: "Maybe your armor draining power for some "whatever-ports-following-bots". I am on my first playthrough and I am like "wtf they are saying?". However the solution is simple and here it is:

"For your basic personal armor+boots+nv you need 4 solar panels at noon daylight to start charging, 5 solar panels during the day to keep charging. To keep you very happy, you would like to have 18 solar panel inside your equipment grid."

Don't thank me.

[Subak]

引用自 Riggs：

Don't thank me.

After three years... finally!

IIRC, the real answer three years ago was that it was just a UI bug.