Newcomer / Intro Rail gun not firing?

I'm CMDR returning. Relearning. I bought an eagle and for chuckles decided to try out the skimmer missions. So I was instantly destroyed by the base guns lol... but I decided to go out of the station, show my brother the game, was cruising over a planet and some random base spawned... and I had no ammo. So I went back to get some and after I left the no fire zone decided to fire my dual rail guns... nothing. I did some googling and then decided on a single gun and place on top... nothing. This is after I bought a restock, btw. So I have a 2A power distributor which says 18MW for weapons... the 1D rail guns say they use 2.69MW of distributor...

I went into a USS Distress call - Threats: 2... well there were 6 and my ships got blasted trying to escape. So much for locking a target to test. But I've never had to lock a target to fire anything before.

Why won't it fire? It has ammo, it has a fire group, the button works (except with a rail gun). My reference is that the missile rack fires (dumb fire) from any hardpoint with either button.
 
Have you fired rail guns before?

They need to be charged. That means you have to hold the fire button for quite a while before the shot comes out.
 
Yeah, they have a charge time before firing. They also require a fair bit of power so make sure there's enough left for that.
 
A quick play suggests 1 rail gun and two fixed multi cannons is all the power system will handle unless you cut back on shields.
 
Several weapons have a discernible lag multi cannons for example need to spin up before they start to fire.
 
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