Probe with reaction wheel twitching, flexing, but no rotation?

[RSwordsman]

So I just went straight from the tracking station to my probe on an Eve transfer orbit. Problem is, on its current trajectory it's going to miss the planet. But when trying to adjust its course, I found out that I couldn't rotate it. At all. (Before you ask, yes it has power.) Even with an inline reaction wheel, all it did was flex a little between the reaction wheel and the part above it. Same with Q and E rotation. Thinking it was some mistake in design, I started a minute burn in order to use the engine gimbal to change its orientation. But even that didn't work.

Is there any reason at all why a probe would REFUSE to change attitude under torque? Could it be some sort of bug?

Edited November 2, 2013 by RSwordsman

[vetrox]

Have you tried disabling the reaction wheel and making sure SAS is turned off?

[Kasuha]

SAS off of course. And you may try what will it do if you try to turn it with x4 physical time warp (quicksave before trying). If the probe is too heavy for its reaction wheel, that might help. Also check in the tracking station if the probe is registered as "in orbit".

[Smidge204]

Can you post a screenshot of your probe so we can have a look?

=Smidge=

[Andrew Hansen]

Probably with the probe's weak reaction wheel it doesn't have enough force to turn around. Try pressing Alt and period a few times until it says "physics warp x4." Then try turning. It should still flex, but then finally it will begin to start rotating.

Additionally, try right-clicking on the probe core to make sure that the reaction wheel is operational.

[SRV Ron]

Have you tried disabling the reaction wheel and making sure SAS is turned off?

I had that problem last night with a Duna probe that entered Duna's SOI while I was placing another into orbit. SAS and thrusters would not budge it. The fix, go back to the tracking station, then back to the probe. It is now in orbit around Duna. Like having one of my thrusters fly off for no reason when switching from the tracking station to controlling the flight, it is one of those random program glitches.

[RSwordsman]

I had that problem last night with a Duna probe that entered Duna's SOI while I was placing another into orbit. SAS and thrusters would not budge it. The fix, go back to the tracking station, then back to the probe. It is now in orbit around Duna. Like having one of my thrusters fly off for no reason when switching from the tracking station to controlling the flight, it is one of those random program glitches.

I thought it might be an issue like this. I have yet to test it, but I'm confident it will work. Thanks for the responses.

EDIT: Must have been a glitch; it works now no problem at all. It's safe to change this one to answered if I knew how lol.

Edited November 2, 2013 by RSwordsman

[Taki117]

To change a thread to answered go to edit the title and there should be a place to change the tag.

[RSwordsman]

Aah, you had to go advanced. I've got it, thanks.