How to not loose electricity alot?

[Bearsh]

How to not loose electricity alot?

No matter how much batteries I put on when I go to mine the kethane... It drains electricity, Is there a way to make it where I have enough electricity? Or when its manned does it stay controllable?

Please I'm really tired of loosing electricity when my kethane storage is barely a quarter filled.

[FenrirWolf]

Deploy your solar panels, and bring more along for the job if they're not cutting it. RTGs can be handy too.

[Bearsh]

Deploy your solar panels, and bring more along for the job if they're not cutting it. RTGs can be handy too.

What are RTG's ?

[FenrirWolf]

It's a kind of power generator. KSP has them as a part but IIRC they show up later on in the tech tree if you're playing career mode.

[Tortoise]

Try solar panels.

[Bearsh]

I've been trying the solar panels, they help but it still drains, I'll start using those thermoletric generator things some more they helped on my Munar landing mission a while back.

[FenrirWolf]

It can also be beneficial to right-click on the parts in the VAB to see how much power they drain, then also look at how much power solar panels are providing you. From there you just make sure that you have the necessary hardware such that you're regenerating more power than you are losing.

[Claw]

How to not loose electricity alot?

No matter how much batteries I put on when I go to mine the kethane... It drains electricity, Is there a way to make it where I have enough electricity? Or when its manned does it stay controllable?

Please I'm really tired of loosing electricity when my kethane storage is barely a quarter filled.

I don't know how much kethane mining eats electricity, but with landers you generally want to disable the SAS module if you're not moving around. Often times the SAS will rapidly drain your batteries since the torque rings stay active and tries to fight the slope of the terrain.

[Sirrobert]

Batterys don't reduce the speed of electrity drain. It'll delay the speed at which you run dry, but if you are drilling and you don't produce enough power, you WILL run out.

So put on more solar panels

[Tex]

Always be sure to bring a ton of solar arrays on a Kethane miner. It also helps to just have one drill running at a time, then you can time warp if it's going too slow.

[cantab]

If you're having controllability issues, then yes manning the miner will solve that, presumably allowing you to stop the drills when you're out of power.

[MarkyJ279]

Perhaps it would help if we knew how many drills (say whether they're large or small, they have different power requirements) you are trying to run, how many panels (again, say whether they are the fixed type, 6x movable type or the XL gigantors) you are using to power them, your approximate distance from the sun (just say what body you are on) and if you are using any RTGs to supplement the panels.

Or a picture if you don't know some of that stuff.

Kethane drills are incredibly power hungry. Realistically you're going to want gigantor XL panels if you want to run large drills and even small ones need plenty of panels.

[Red Iron Crown]

I don't know how much kethane mining eats electricity, but with landers you generally want to disable the SAS module if you're not moving around. Often times the SAS will rapidly drain your batteries since the torque rings stay active and tries to fight the slope of the terrain.

Just turning off SAS will suffice, you don't need to disable the module altogether.

This post brought to you by losing a lander on ascent due to lack of control authority when the pilot forgot to reenable the SAS module.

[KvickFlygarn87]

Try using the kethane power generator, it uses kethane to make power (DUH).

[Kryxal]

Batteries, some solar panels for landing/moving, and the generator for active mining will do the trick nicely ... and it's not really hurt by deploying to Jool or something.

[Zad Fnark]

MechJeb puts a constant unstoppable drain on your power supply.

ZF-

[Claw]

Just turning off SAS will suffice, you don't need to disable the module altogether.

This post brought to you by losing a lander on ascent due to lack of control authority when the pilot forgot to reenable the SAS module.

Sorry, that was more of a typo. I didn't mean to imply "right click and disable." Just to turn it off (press 'T') like Crown said.