How To Repair Solar Panels Ksp

While repairable landing legs repairable wheels and repackable parachutes have been in the game for a little while solar panels have never been fixable.

How to repair solar panels ksp.

Ok so if your here its probably too late sorry because this method is all about planning in advanced. I have never seen this broken. One panel creates enough energy to keep one ix 6315 dawn electric propulsion system at maximum thrust and a distance to kerbol similar to that of kerbin under the premise that it is able to orient itself perfectly to the sun. Adding the solar panel radially allows a perfect orientation at all thrusting directions.

Before and it seems to imply that something can be done about it. From kerbal space program wiki. So i have read many threads saying that panels cannot be repaired w out mods but these are from previous versions and i believe most of them are referring to panels that have been smashed of the craft. The kis mod would help too.

If asked to overwrite files do so. Launch a rocket with a solar panel on it to rendezvous with the damaged craft. You could send an engineer up and bump into the solar panel and edit your save file to make your panels not broken and pretend your engineer bumped it and fixed it. Pages in category solar panels the following 9 pages are in this category out of 9 total.

Vern level 4 engineer floating next to the nub of a solar panel. When you have rendezvoused with the damaged craft eva a kerbal. Move to the damaged craft where you want to place it. To install place the included gamedata folder inside your kerbal space program folder.

Right click on the solar panel when next to it and select grab. For more info check out the ksp forum thread. So you re not doing anything wrong it s just not an option. Right click on the nub and select repair from spares 3 of 3.

I just landed on duna for the first time and broke all of my solar panels in the process landed without any damage but had to roll to get upright. If the engineers could fix things we could have a box of spare parts in a cargo service bay or even as external load. This pack contains various solar panels that i ve sourced from spacecraft concepts. Navigation search main article.

I don t know if they are going to add repair ability to them now that there is an engineer class but i agree that it would be nice. If there is any way to repair these panels even through a mod please let me know. The craft may need to be rolled to allow a decent enough coverage. You can launch a new solar panel up then eva and attach it to the ship that the panel broke on.

You need the kas mod for an engineer to replace solar panels. Right click on the solar panel on your back and select place.