Help with persistant file editing

[Tank Buddy]

I accidental allowed one of my probes bound for Eve to lose solar power, and I'm not going to give up. I could revert the game to another save I backed up very recently, or I could edit the persistace file. Can someone tell me how to add electric charge to a probe in an escape trajectory?

Edited November 27, 2013 by Tank Buddy

[phunk]

First, as always, backup the persistent file.

Search for the name of the ship in the file, then search forward from that point for a part with a resource like this (for example, the probe core or a battery):

RESOURCE

{

name = ElectricCharge

amount = 0

maxAmount = 10

Then change the amount to the max amount, and you'll have a full charge in that part.