Perry Apsis

Blackheart612, I can't change the throttle, can't ignite the engines. It behaves just as if the entire ship were out of electricity, but it's only the bottom, below the fairing.

I'm experiencing a problem with electrical connections across the interstage fairing that I don't quite understand, but I was able to reproduce it. I built a "service module"-type upper stage, and connected the interstage adapter beneath it. Then I dropped the interstage adapter onto a very large asparagus-staged launcher (19 orange tanks and 93 engines). When I launch, I've got a couple of seconds before everything below the interstage runs out of power. Overall I've got plenty of juice. The big booster is a standard component I've used over and over and never had any problem with it, and I did an Apollo-style mission once with the interstage adapter and it worked flawlessly (Congratulations on an amazing piece of work, by the way). The odd part is that I've tried adding as many as 50 RTGs to the orange tanks, and it didn't seem to help. I'm only using PF and Mechjeb, and the problem occurs whether I include MJ components or not. I've googled this until my googler is sore and haven't found anything similar. Is anyone on the thread familiar with this kind of problem or have any ideas where to start troubleshooting? Thanks in advance for any assistance. **EDIT: I worked around the problem by adding a lot of batteries to the lower section, but either I'm missing something fundamental about how electric charge propagates, or the interstage fairing is failing to conduct properly.