OX Solar panels going crazy!

[Lelling]

Hey folks! I've encountered a very interesting bug - I made my first space station (was a good few days' work! But it's up in orbit now \/), and on it, I included two solar panel modules. They're a simple design, with four parallel sets of 1x6 OX panels, and two 2x3 OX panels on the side, but there's a problem - once extended, they sit fine for a while, but then they just start spazzing out!

It's quite crazy and amusing at the same time  I have no idea what's causing this, it happens with SAS on or off, there are reaction wheels and HECS command modules on the modules, and even when detached, the modules will just fly off into space spazzing out to the point where they turn into a magic chaos ball (click for gif here - doesn't want to embed into the post). It only happens with extended panels - it doesn't happen when they are still retracted.

Note that these gifs were all made at normal speed

 

Now, while this bug is amusing, I do like my space stations stationary, so I was wondering if anyone has any insight on what might be causing this bug, so I can avoid doing that in the future  for now, I will be replacing my solar panel modules with retractable ones, as I have the suspicion that, if it were possible with these ones, retracting the panels would stop the magic oscillation.

[sal_vager]

I think you're going to want to enable the extra actions in the settings screen, and get some autostruts on that pronto.

It's a rather old PhysX bug, and can hit any vessel if you have several light parts sticking out, though if your ship is heavy enough it damps it down, that's why it can hit a vessel seemingly at random, as you burn fuel you can get to the point when this feedback loop kicks in.

Maybe call it the wobble kraken.

Struts (almost) eliminate it, and before now you'd have to install Kerbal attachment system to add struts in flight, but now you can add autostruts via the right click menu on most parts.

[Lelling]

That solved it! The first time I used it, one of my modules exploded, but that's because I fastened the wrong thing  After using the strut on the panels themselves, the problem was fixed! They're a bit lopsided now but at least they're not moving around

Thank you, Prince of the Yolkfolk o.o