Battery Charging in 1.4

[Vkihyone]

So I'm running two separate orbital labs, one around the mun and one around kerbin and every time I go back to check on them after moving one of my deep space probes forward 30-40 days (don't want to miss out on the accumulated science gains) I find that instead of their batteries being fully charged or nearly so they are almost always nearly empty.  Now I know I have enough charging capacity to keep them fully powered even while running research so I'm wondering if this is a bug or something else.

Edited March 10, 2018 by Vkihyone
Further testing

[firda]

Are you leaving when charging or discharging?

Edited March 10, 2018 by firda
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[Vkihyone]

I leave while they are charging

[severedsolo]

13 hours ago, Vkihyone said:

I leave while they are charging

It's not a bug per se (or it's so old it's now classifed as a feature) - batteries don't charge/discharge while the ship is unloaded. There is a mod for that, but I don't know if it still works:

 

[Temeter]

Basically, the batteries shouldn't be empty, but rather in the same state you left them.

[Jestersage]

7 hours ago, severedsolo said:

It's not a bug per se (or it's so old it's now classifed as a feature) - batteries don't charge/discharge while the ship is unloaded. There is a mod for that, but I don't know if it still works

Do we need this for lab processing, or is it all good?

[Vkihyone]

Ah that makes sense (I suppose) thanks