It needs to be raining drizzling or sunny for them to charge.
Cataclysm solar panel not charging.
Turns out they actually give just 50 epower for regular panels 100 for upgraded and 300 for quantum.
7 points 3 years ago.
Find one on ebay or whatever look for solar panel blocking diode and put it between the solar panel and the battery.
Solar panels are incredibly slow to charge.
Nothing more needed except to turn on the charging station by operating the electronics and drop your rechargeable batteries into the basket.
So if your solar panel on the ambulance is charging a non draining battery it will operate the charging station without the need to run the engine.
The wiki states that normal solar panels give 111 epower.
6 points 3 years ago.
It takes around 12 solar panels on a car to make it charge at a noticeable rate and at least 4 to outpace even a minifridge s passive draw.
Electric cars early on are almost difficult to use because when you drive from one town to another it ll take several days for the power to come back.
If you pop out every evening and disconnect the panel from the battery before dark you could even skip the diode.
At this rate you d have to leave a car charging for days in good weather if you want to go any kind of long distance.
They charge the fastest when it s sunny more slowly when drizzling and very slowly when raining.