Kerbal Space Program

I have to add that there is something to do for prioritize who consume electricity

for example if you leave on an ion engine this will consume all electricity coming in and will keep going draining always electricity to zero , so you are having a craft trusting until the end of xenon without the ability to do anything to the craft because you are out of electriciy so..imho electricity should go in this order for example:

1. probe
2. battery
2. reaction wheel
3. engine

I wonder if this will end up causing headaches when we start working on the antenna stuff in 1.2, which will be a while yet.

Pluto239 wrote:

I have noticed this as well (result: Surprise! Mission Failure.). Is this a bug or "working as intended"?

I believe this is an intended feature as per some past denotes, ill see if I can dig something up, but I could be mistaken.

I think this is not a bug. It is in order of things when disconnect the power source and the device becomes inoperable because even timer (like in Rosetta) during SleepMode must have a source of power (for example: OX-STAT Photovoltaic Panels or any of the battery with a sufficient amount of energyy). Try to disable devices that consume energy from the battery instead of disconnect the battery itself.

@Navi1982

It's a game-breaker for the current Remote Tech players during shadow and night time missions. The bad thing is now you can't have a reserve battery for emergency situations, because you can't activate it if the main battery goes dry.

to Enceos:
I think the developers should take care about this. Usually the active "listening" device consumes energy. However, there are passive devices that are activated externally. Thus, the developers of this mod must come up with an analogue of passive battery activator. For example, reed switch or some kind of Passive Frequency Detector of Alternating ElectroMagnetic Field (PFD-AEMF)... or, not sure if implemented by SQUAD's, manually switching by kerbonauts. :)