EC transfer?

[tater]

If you use a service bay, and throw batteries in there, how can one get charge from them to a capsule on the other side of a separator? Option/alt clicking doesn't seem to do it.

Edited May 3, 2015 by tater

[Anquietas314]

You need level 2 R&D to be able to transfer resources; electric charge is technically a resource

The charge should just be drained by whatever uses it regardless of where they are on the ship, but there are of course situations where you want to keep upper stages fully charged for example.

[tater]

Yeah, it uses the EC from the service bay, but also from the capsule. I've been turning off the battery in the capsule just to be safe (don't want to run out and not be able to deploy chutes, etc). Thanks for the heads up on the R&D upgrade, I've not gotten that far in my 1.0.2 game yet.

[Anquietas314]

You don't need EC to deploy chutes if the capsule is manned (although it's still a good idea to have some during reentry just in case it decides to flip nose-first due to dodgy design )