Stationeers Dual Axis Solar Tracking Introduction

[@Vulcy]

Sir this is quite literally the best tutorial for solar panels on youtube, forget all the 20-30 minute vids with cringe yapping, you are THE MAN

[@diyeimeno]

THE BEST ONE... CLEAR AND DIRECT!!!!

[@norwegianwiking]

Less than 6 minutes to explain what takes others 20+, and doing it in a way that can't be fucked up by pointing a port in the wrong direction. Best Stationeer youtuber.

[@flamingseagul9409]

Just started playing, Every tutorial I watched always had those specific setups like you said, this works every time, and pretty much everywhere. Thanks.

[@gmodgoon]

Absolutley brilliant, works perfectly. Thank you!

[@ec-norsemanzero-drake7031]

This got you a sub and a like. :-) This had popped up today and was right on queue… I added one more mem and batch for the horizontal, after I re watched the vid. LOL

[@NoHypocrisy42]

This video was great! Logic just clicked after this. But i had to subtract because my solar was backwards.

[@BigfootMSR]

Glad it helped!

[@jasons9564]

This was perfect. Thanks!

[@landersrl]

Best, I agree

[@Sworn973]

Yah, I still think the readings on the sensor itself are still off, like not the inteded way, specially in Venus, where it seems like the sky and the sun are not where they should be, like its flipped in the programming. But yah, great video, that handles offset on any place, would be the easiest to apply in any situation, not the easisest build, but I gues the easiste overall. Just plop down and tweak the horizontal

[@BigfootMSR]

The cables could have been cleaned up a bit, there are good number that are not necessary. But, the important part is all the ports are connected.

[@karyjas1]

Tried doing it all on my own just today. I assumed just doing vertical would be enough, but becouse of how weird the daylight sensor tracks the sun i needed something else, and it appears the offered solution is to do horizontal too. So weird... Why was this feature designed this way?

[@BigfootMSR]

I wasn't really around when the solar tracking came to be, but It makes sense. The sun does not always pass directly overhead, so some sort of dual axis tracking would be required to maximize the power generation. It did used to pass directly over head 90 degrees on the moon before the solar orbit updates, and mars you could get away with single axis tracking with a bit of a loss. Since, the update though, its better to just use dual axis, and it doesn't really require that much more resources over single axis. The latitude and longitude on the planet in each play through is supposed to be randomized now, so the sun orbit is always just a little bit different now.

[@karyjas1]

@@BigfootMSR I played with a friend and he discovered a way to do good tracking with only one axis and two logic blocks. The solution is placing the daylight sensor on the wall, not the floor, angle does seem to matter

[@SkashTheKitsune]

you can have just 1 memory and select it to subtract 90 on the horizontal

[@BigfootMSR]

Yep! There are a bunch of fancy ways you could do it, including the IC10 chips, but for somebody first learning the game, this is the easiest, non confusing and basic no nonsense setup.

[@SkashTheKitsune]

@@BigfootMSR yes, agreed

[@JonesJensen]

You don't need the horisontal math, you can just turn the daylight sensor (still lying down) around. It's offset by 90 degrees counter-clockwise

[@BigfootMSR]

While that is true, that was not the purpose of this video. There are a lot of guides that tell you how to point the sensor a specific direction and the panel another, which is confusing to new players learning the game. This video was to show that none of that is necessary. Really the only thing your saving is a memory and a math unit, you still need everything else.