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[Bug] OX-SAT solar panels still provide power when inside closed service bay


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This isn't really support, the [bug] prefix wasn't showing up in my options.

I'm running version 1.0.0, clean install, and now mods. It's a career mode save, and it's been my experience so far that the little OX-SAT solar panels will still work whether the doors on the service bay are open or closed. I think it's fairly self explanatory to repeat, just get a service bay, stick some solar panels in it, and look at the electricity flow on the panels.

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Now I'm just assuming this is a bug, since closed doors should block light, but I suppose it could also be something that Squad already knew about and just didn't have time to get around to taking care of. It does make for very pretty and sleek satellites though :)

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I've noticed something simulare that i believe to be connected to this.

While landed (on minmus) and drilling for ore my solar panels continiue to track the sun and produce energy trough the night. Despite the sun more or less being on the oposite side of the planet.

I didn't think too much of it there and then so didn't take a screenshot, will take one the next time it happens.

Additional info to pinpoint or help reproduce: One thing i did notice one of the times this happened was that it only seemd to affect solar panels that are perpendicular to the sun. My setup was a 4x symetry X made of gigantor panels. The part of the x that was pointing towards and away from where the sun was didn't produce power (i know for sure that one of them didn't, can't really remember the other but i don't think it did) while the two sides of the X that were roughly perpendicular to where the sun was reportad a sun exposure of 0.99 despite beeing aimed roughly 45 degrees downwards.

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Did a little bit more testing, and it looks like it's an issue with the the 1.25m fairing as well. I made a probe core with a single OX-SAT panel on top, enclosed both inside a fairing, and stuck a whole bunch of lights on to drain the power. As soon as I turned the lights off, the probe core started recharging, even though the panel is inside the fairing.

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