[Answered] Deploy ICRU?

[Xyphos]

So there is an action group item ON THE ISRU UNIT called "Deploy" (and retract, and Toggle)

I have no idea what they are for, and never found a use for them.

The wiki makes no mention of these, either.

Edited July 31, 2015 by Xyphos

[obsidian_x]

Rather than clicking each item with an action, (eg deploy solar panels, disable reaction wheels) you can lump related tasks together - eg deploy solar panels may also turn on lights, and activate the drills by pressing action group 1 (or landing gear/lights etc). When doing it manually, I tend to forget the deploy solar panels, you might run out of power before you remember to deploy.

[Xyphos]

That doesn't help. please read the bold print in the OP.

[obsidian_x]

Gah, reading comprehension fail, sorry. I haven't used it as I haven't unlocked it yet in my game. If I was home I'd build a test craft and use the different action groups, and see what happens.

[Laie]

More likely a OP writing fail. There is no such part as a ICRU unit. What exists is a ISRU unit, but I just fired up KSP to check and there are no toggle / deploy / retract actions.

Dear OP, are you perchance talking about the drill? If you really mean the resource converter, I suspect you have a mod that added these actions to your part.

[X-SR71]

Long answer short, I don't think that deploy does anything. I have wondered about that one before too.

There are other parts with possible actions for action groups that don't do anything, but I can't quite remember them now.

[Starhawk]

The refinery does indeed have deploy, retract, and toggle actions associated with it in the VAB or SPH. Open action groups and select the refinery, and there they are.

They don't seem to do anything. I tried a while ago to assign action group keys to those actions, but nothing happens in-game when you trigger them.

I imagine it's left over code from an earlier idea about how it worked. (Maybe it had a built-in drill?)

Happy landings!

[RoverDude]

Those are leftover modules from the animation module (it's shared by several parts). ISRUs do not have a deploy mechanism (they auto deploy) so those actions would have no effect.

[A_name]

That doesn't help. please read the bold print in the OP.

Pretty curt reply from the guy who didn't even write his question correctly.

I've never used the unit but I would assume it deploys the drills.

[Sharpy]

I believe it may activate the animation - the big cog in the middle turning, the pistons moving - without starting any production. I'm not sure though.

You can also "deploy" the Mystery Goo container and the Materials Bay.

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It doesn't have any drills. Drills are an external part which is currently landed on Minmus with the miner-lander, while the ISRU orbits it...

[Xyphos]

The refinery does indeed have deploy, retract, and toggle actions associated with it in the VAB or SPH. Open action groups and select the refinery, and there they are.

They don't seem to do anything. I tried a while ago to assign action group keys to those actions, but nothing happens in-game when you trigger them.

I imagine it's left over code from an earlier idea about how it worked. (Maybe it had a built-in drill?)

Happy landings!

OK Thanks.

Have some rep.