Intermittent low power

Dave Angel · Apr 6, 2015

Hi,

not sure if this is a bug, or a very annoying game mechanic I'm unaware of.

All of a sudden, my chaff launcher has turned to a status 'low power'. It's never said that before, and my load out hasn't changed. My ship is fully repaired, no system damage.

confused, I shut down my kws, my output on the reactor was pegged at 96%, and after a few mins the chaff came back online, when I brought up the kws again, it stayed online until I docked, now it's started again.

really annoying as I should have the output spare to run it.

any ideas?

777Driver · Apr 6, 2015

Dave Angel said:
Hi,

not sure if this is a bug, or a very annoying game mechanic I'm unaware of.

All of a sudden, my chaff launcher has turned to a status 'low power'. It's never said that before, and my load out hasn't changed. My ship is fully repaired, no system damage.

confused, I shut down my kws, my output on the reactor was pegged at 96%, and after a few mins the chaff came back online, when I brought up the kws again, it stayed online until I docked, now it's started again.

really annoying as I should have the output spare to run it.

any ideas?

Chaff will display 'low power' if you do not have enough juice in the SYS reservoir. Divert power to SYS to top it up. Your issue has nothing to do with the ships main power output

Dave Angel · Apr 6, 2015

Thank you triple seven.

If that the case, its bizarre I've never seen that before, but you stopped me going insane with power settings.

Thanks.

777Driver · Apr 6, 2015

Dave Angel said:
Thank you triple seven.

If that the case, its bizarre I've never seen that before, but you stopped me going insane with power settings.

Thanks.

No worries dude.. Chaff, point defense and heat sinks all require energy from the SYS capacitor.

CMDR Nick · Apr 6, 2015

Yes, its strange that chaff runs off systems & not weapons, when its really a fired device, but that's the reason for low power. Note that if you have 2 chaff fitted, and disable one, it will fire the first then 'stick' on the disabled one - something I discovered to my cost.

777Driver · Apr 6, 2015

CMDR Nick said:
Yes, its strange that chaff runs off systems & not weapons, when its really a fired device, but that's the reason for low power. Note that if you have 2 chaff fitted, and disable one, it will fire the first then 'stick' on the disabled one - something I discovered to my cost.

I think the logic is that 'WEP' is actually just powering the cooling system, 'SYS' is actually providing power to those systems, primarily shields

CMDR Nick · Apr 6, 2015

777Driver said:
I think the logic is that 'WEP' is actually just powering the cooling system, 'SYS' is actually providing power to those systems, primarily shields

Interesting