MrOnak

I was afraid that'd be the case. Well... on to new shores then, next launch in 3... 2... 1...

The "Electrolyse Water" option of my ISRU refinery on Minmus' lesser flats refuses to generate liquid fuel /oxidiser. The "Extract Water" option works as expected, and the "Electrolyse Water" option does in fact consume both electricity and the "LqdWater" resource generated by extraction, but no fuel / oxidiser appears in my tanks. There are no seperate water tanks on the refinery, only the 100 units from within the ISRUs of which I have 2. The refinery is connected to the near-empty fuel tank (in the bottom center of the stack) via a docked pair of 1.25m docking ports. Crossfeeding is enabled on that connection. I tried fiddling around with KAS fuel pipes running from the refinery to the fuel tank but that doesn't seem to help. Any ideas? I put a screenshot up to ease debugging: The ship on the right is supposed to become the fuel shuttle for orbiting customers. Nevermind the weird KAS piping at the moment of the screenshot, I was trying various routes for the fuel flow to enable the water electrolysis. Thanks in advance.

Hooray it worked. Despite 0.7s signal delay curtesy of RemoteTech I managed to land the sucker in one piece. Mining water works, but for some reason electrolysis is using up the water but doesn't put fuel / oxydiser into the storage tank. there's just two docking ports between the refineries and the fuel tank. Oh well, I'll send some kerbals up there and see what KAS can do to fix that.

Ah that makes a lot of sense actually, thanks for clarifying this

Yeah I found his video later that night... not too sure whether I want to add infernal robotics to my current career at the moment though . I was fiddling with the ISRU in the VAB some more today and it seems that the big bottom attachment point is unusable when the ISRU is not the root object? That'd be a shame, really since I figured out a semi-large (by my standards anyway) station to deploy on Minmus. Not 100% convinced it will survive the deceleration but since its Minmus we're talking about it probably will. I like your design by the way merendel, seems very compact. I'll post a pic of my station if it makes it to Minmus' surface in one piece.

Err... can anyone please put a screenshot of the ISRU Refinery from the Interstellar mod being deployed on the surface of any planet / moon up? I can't really seem to figure out how to combine it with other parts to make it into something useful. The issue is not what the refinery does, its more how to connect it... Thanks a ton in advance

Hi all, one large docking port on my interplanetary station seems to be broken. It worked earlier so I know it's installed the right side out. What's happening is that I see the "undock" command in the context menu but clicking on it simply doesn't do anything and after I click on that once the command is gone from the menu. I've had that happen before but usually reloading the quicksave fixed that, but not this time. So I'm wondering - what the reason might be (I didn't crash into the port and an EVA reports "no damage") - and if there's a fix that can be applied thru editing the save file. I've had a look at the parts and I'm certain I found the docking port in question but frankly I don't really know what to look for. All I can see is that the values look very much like those from the other docking ports that do in fact work. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance