Electricity = hydraulic fluid??

[Jestersage]

One thing I learn about the BG is that, if somehow your craft suddenly collapse on the leg, do not assume it's because you are using weak motor or weak structures. Instead, check to see if your craft run out of electricity.

However, shouldn't it make more sense that, if a craft run out of electricity, the joints just doesn't move and get locked up, as what happens in real-life?

[CaveJohnson376]

In real life they will be locked only if they have special mechanisms that locks when not moving. Maybe its better to add a setting to change their mechanisms to add autolock and make them stronger in cost of speed and credits?

[mikegarrison]

30 minutes ago, Jestersage said:

However, shouldn't it make more sense that, if a craft run out of electricity, the joints just doesn't move and get locked up, as what happens in real-life?

I don't know what "real life" situation you are thinking of, but consider something like a "bounce house". https://kidspartycentre.com/bounce-houses/ These are inflated by a fan. If the power is turned off, they leak enough that they collapse. That could be an analog. Perhaps the landing leg is basically a piston that is extended by hydraulics that are pressurized by an electric motor. If there is no valve that prevents the pressure from escaping, then when the motor shuts off, the pressure will leak out and the leg will collapse.

[CaveJohnson376]

28 minutes ago, mikegarrison said:

I don't know what "real life" situation you are thinking of, but consider something like a "bounce house". https://kidspartycentre.com/bounce-houses/ These are inflated by a fan. If the power is turned off, they leak enough that they collapse. That could be an analog. Perhaps the landing leg is basically a piston that is extended by hydraulics that are pressurized by an electric motor. If there is no valve that prevents the pressure from escaping, then when the motor shuts off, the pressure will leak out and the leg will collapse.

That would be solution, too

[kerbiloid]

Have the Apollo landers ducked now?

[Jestersage]

On 8/2/2019 at 10:18 AM, kerbiloid said:

Have the Apollo landers ducked now?

uh....

On 7/31/2019 at 12:36 PM, mikegarrison said:

I don't know what "real life" situation you are thinking of, but consider something like a "bounce house". https://kidspartycentre.com/bounce-houses/ These are inflated by a fan. If the power is turned off, they leak enough that they collapse. That could be an analog. Perhaps the landing leg is basically a piston that is extended by hydraulics that are pressurized by an electric motor. If there is no valve that prevents the pressure from escaping, then when the motor shuts off, the pressure will leak out and the leg will collapse.

On the other hand, the situation also apply to servos.

You know what, I will just assume they are field motors held in place by electromagnetic force for fast movement and ease of adjustability in specs, with the caviet that when battery ran out the EM field is gone, thus causing them to just freely rotate. The "solution" that the Kerbals ended up applying is a manual controlled "lock" on their robotic parts.