Can't charge batteries on Duna?

[Jarmo]

I've got total energy flow of 2.something (at the moment, sun is low) but none of the batteries are charging AT ALL.

To my best knowledge, I have nothing on that'd eat up any of the charge, the little dudes have been sitting in dark lights off for a week and are getting a bit worried.

I think this is a bug actually, but  maybe I'm overlooking something?

Background.
It's my first mission to Duna surface. The ship was flown by 2000-series AI (don't remember which core actually), the team is Engineer and two scientists.

It was a very rough landing, ran out of fuel and came in steep and hard.
Ejected the engines, control core and other weighty stuff upon entering the atmosphere. (does this have something to do with it?) 
Parachute landing, bad one, rolled over a few times, broke stuff like half of the solar panels and one antenna. Enough redundant systems left, or so I thought.

Ran a few tests, did science for a few days. Tried to send a science data package back to Kerbin, ran out of electricity and transmit failed.

Thought I'd be fine, still have a bunch of panels left.

But it's not recharging anything, turned off the lights and left them there for days, no luck. Restarted the PC and the game, still no luck.

Edited April 8, 2019 by Jarmo
not a bug, there's a reason

[James Kerman]

The science lab uses a lot of power when active and solar panels are less effective the further from Kerbol you are. I would try stopping research and see if your batteries start charging.

Also welcome to the forum @Jarmo.

[Edit] I've also moved your thread to gameplay questions because it is a question about game play. 

Edited April 8, 2019 by James Kerman
Moved thread

[Jarmo]

Oh I'm such an idiot.
I was sure it wasn't doing anything anymore, but it was and that was it!
Thanks a lot! 

[James Kerman]

10 minutes ago, Jarmo said:

Oh I'm such an idiot.

Don't be too harsh on yourself. KSP is a very complex game and we all have these sort of issues at one time or another.