Chaff not working with shortcut

[CMDR Zadian Lichtfrost]

I'm testing different control layouts and thought I could free a fire button and reduce the amount of fire groups by activating chaff with a keyboard shortcut.

My problem is, that it's not working. If I activate chaff by using the shortcut button it fires once and then never again.
I can use caff if I add it to a fire group and use the fire button.
It doesn't matter if the chaff launcher is in a fire group or not, it won't fire using the shortcut after one use.

What am I doing wrong, what am I missing?

 

[Space Fan]

Key set to 'hold'?

I've also had issues with multiple chaff launchers.

 

[CMDR Zadian Lichtfrost]

Key set to 'hold'?

I've also had issues with multiple chaff launchers.

I can't find a "hold" option for the "use chaff launcher" button.

I have 3 chaff launchers installed, but only one is active.

 

[Iskariot]

Have you tried activating one chaff launcher at a time in your module setup.
Otherwise you would just be wasting chaff anyway.

 

[Metkis]

I can't find a "hold" option for the "use chaff launcher" button.

I have 3 chaff launchers installed, but only one is active.

Is it possible you need sys capacitor to recharge chaff, and it was exhausted with no pips in sys?
Just a thought, not tested this.
Metkis

 

[Julio Montega]

Is it possible you need sys capacitor to recharge chaff, and it was exhausted with no pips in sys?
Just a thought, not tested this.
Metkis

Chaff and heatsinks require sys energy to operate, as you guessed.
No power, no shower

 

[Mithos09]

I can't find a "hold" option for the "use chaff launcher" button.

I have 3 chaff launchers installed, but only one is active.

I've encountered a similar behaviour a few days ago. Because of power shortages I decided to disable one of my chaff launchers for a while. I wasn't able to fire any chaffs with the key binding thereafter. I guess the key doesn't check if the launcher is disabled. After enabling it, it immediately fires a chaff without any use of a button, as if the activation was stuck.

This is a bug.

 

[CMDR Zadian Lichtfrost]

Have you tried activating one chaff launcher at a time in your module setup.
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Yes. I tried all combinations, only one activated, two activated, 3 activated. Chaff always works when activated with the fire button (and chaff launcher is in a fire group). Chaff doesn't work if activated by shortcut after the first use of that launcher.

Is it possible you need sys capacitor to recharge chaff, and it was exhausted with no pips in sys?
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4 pips in sys, capacitor full - power wasn't/isn't the problem as I can use chaff if the launcher(s) is(are) in a fire group.

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This is a bug.

That's exactly what I didn't want to hear