[Suggestion] Backup Battery for Solar Panel

Comments: 72

• 13 Oct, '21
  Spar Multendor Merged

  Beacon is worthless at night. I cannot think of any other need for adding a battery to the game. Just make it work at night and say its built in battery charges via the solar panels.

• 19 Dec, '21
  Badger Merged

  It seems a little odd that we can construct solar panels, but no batteries. I mean, we can make flashlights - presumably they have batteries?
  I seems to me that we should be able to manufacture a power storage unit of some sort (perhaps even more than one - different cost/efficiency/capacities?).

• 29 Dec, '21
  Sean Cormier (RogueCmdr TTV) Merged

  There needs to be a power store.. even make it portable battery
  
  Also rechargeable devices..

• 29 Dec, '21
  Sean Cormier (RogueCmdr TTV) Merged

  There needs to be a power store.. even make it portable battery
  
  Also rechargeable devices..

• 30 Dec, '21
  Fuhrog Merged

  Would make for making solar panels more useful rather than inky running a wire in a cave for light. Could make for nice outpost builds as well.

• 30 Dec, '21
  W2D2 Merged

  Exactly. Electricity is needed for lights at night. A battery will allow you to achieve this.
  
  We also need components like switches....

• 30 Dec, '21
  Forge Merged

  my outpost runs off a bio fuel generator but I have several electric foundries with solar panels near mining caves as it melts things down for free during the daylight hours and by time I pop back over its all melted
  
  I mean they even have a system already in that could be easily modded for batteries - just make a battery slot it into a powered machine and then have it fill up like a o2 bottle or water bottle then just have it discharge by placing it in a battery rack - uses things already in the game so really wouldn't be hard to even make also would allow for us to carry batteries to set up lamps and such in caves for mining thus expanding the ability to do things in field

• 10 Jan, '22
  pablo Merged

  allow the creation of a battery to store and transport energy

• 10 Jan, '22
  Travis Merged

  Totally agree
  Battery in conjunction with the solar panel would be a great addition.

• 12 Jan, '22
  Badger Merged

  It makes no sense that there is no battery - after all, we clearly *can* make batteries (unless the flashlight is supposed to run on magic). Although, perhaps the flashlight isn't the best example, since it seems that once its power runs out, our characters are incapable of imagining any solution beyond building a new one, since it is not repairable.

• 12 Jan, '22
  Explorer EUROPA_EXP2_3571 Merged

  it makes absolute sense, to implement batteries for night use. in daylight they get charged from solar panel for example, in the night we can have light in house and on digging

• 12 Jan, '22
  Elissa - Producer Admin Merged

  "Batteries" (suggested by Badger on 2021-12-19), including upvotes (8) and comments (1), was merged into this suggestion.

• 12 Jan, '22
  Elissa - Producer Admin Merged

  "A battery to store excess power" (suggested by Fuhrog on 2021-12-30), including upvotes (12) and comments (2), was merged into this suggestion.

• 12 Jan, '22
  Elissa - Producer Admin Merged

  "[Suggestion] Allow the creation of a battery to store and transport energy" (suggested by pablo on 2022-01-10), including upvotes (13) and comments (2), was merged into this suggestion.

• 30 Jan, '22
  EvilTweety Merged

  Implement power and mass storage for the power generated by the solar panels

• 07 Feb, '22
  Mickago Merged

  Be able to add batteries to the electrical installation and solar panels on the roof. Be able to add batteries to the electrical installation and solar panels on the roof to be able to use energy at night without having to run the generator

• 12 Mar, '22
  Walter Gotschalg M Silva Merged

  The game need a way of stocking energy, urgent!

• 14 Mar, '22
  Krystyn

  Like No man's Sky...Super easy to do power generation in that game.
  Maybe not quite as easy but simple and straightforward.

• 14 Mar, '22
  Coretalless

  Add Lithium Ore/ingots for Backup Batteries.

• 15 Mar, '22
  Alex Merged

  How about adding batteries for solar panels to run electronics at night?

• 16 Mar, '22
  Ankk Merged

  such a proposal has already been

• 20 Mar, '22
  Alex Merged

  So what? If they have not yet introduced these batteries, you need to bomb them with this offer. After all, a solar panel without a battery is nonsense.

• 28 Mar, '22
  JacksSmirk Merged

  Maybe even a battery that won't be T4. I'm never on missions long enough to tech up to T4 for unless I'm mining exotics, and all I want from the fabricator is the extractor. Also, the biofuel gen is HUGE...would love smaller power sources, especially that don't require composites.

• 29 Mar, '22
  Aursan Merged

  Yes I would love to actually stay up at night with lights inside of my base instead of always going to sleep just to get the sunlight back!

• 07 Apr, '22
  tom Merged

  miss me battery in icarus. for charging from solar panels an using in night as support energy for refrigerator. one generator generating 5000 energy. 2500 take forge, 2500 take material procesor and miss me energy for refrigerator. yes, I can have 2 generators, but the production is quite expensive, in addition, the biofuel must be monitored, which does not replace itself, even if there is a slots for something ...
  next miss in game any switch for on/off lights. once you have the lights in the room two walls high very poorly turn on and off.
  When I turn the game off and then on, all the lights are off. the switch would solve this

• 07 Apr, '22
  Terry Merged

  +1 for Light Switch, and also for the battery idea - this is a good idea.
  The wiring tool is terrible and the wires just look aweful. But having to jump up to a high ceiling to turn the lights on is equally as bad. A switch would be great.
  Solar at the moment is just dumb unless you want to run furnace etc only at night - which is equally as dumb as if you sleep then no progress has been made (like the storms... wtf)

• 08 May, '22
  Lianail

  Batteries should consume electricity when not in use, provide it during use. Need to decide how many you need.

• 08 May, '22
  Lianail Merged

  Duplicate suggestion, this needs to be merged with the higher upvote suggestion.

• 09 May, '22
  Lianail Merged

  Duplicate suggestion, this needs to be merged with the higher upvote suggestion. Upvote the previous and merge/close this on

• 09 May, '22
  Elissa - Producer Admin

  "[Suggestion] Batteries for solar panels" (suggested by Alex on 2022-03-15), including upvotes (10) and comments (2), was merged into this suggestion.

• 09 May, '22
  Elissa - Producer Admin

  "[Suggestion] Add batteries to the electrical installation and solar panels" (suggested by Mickago on 2022-02-07), including upvotes (23) and comments (1), was merged into this suggestion.

• 18 Jun, '22
  jinx Merged

  Batteries to store power acquired from various sources.
  - Generators from water and wind
  - Electrical storm / Grounding rod on structures redirected to battery
  - Generator using biofuel, wood, plants, and coal

• 18 Jun, '22
  cmopatrick Merged

  Ms. Elissa: It might help the devs see this if you merge the following into it:
  [Suggestion] Backup Battery for Solar Panel by Coretalless on 13 (with 64 up votes); &
  Add battery by Tom on April 7 (with 23 up votes)

• 19 Jun, '22
  Elissa - Producer Admin

  "[Suggestion] Tier 4 Battery" (suggested by Rojueru on 2021-12-16), including upvotes (78) and comments (16), was merged into this suggestion.

• 19 Jun, '22
  Elissa - Producer Admin Merged

  "Batteries for power storage" (suggested by jinx on 2022-06-18), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

• 23 Jul, '22
  bruno esteves Merged

  add batteries that can be recharged by only the solar panel..
  what the use of solar panel if we use the lights only by night...
  is better have batteries that powers all house (only lights) that can be rechargeable by solar panel

• 24 Jul, '22
  Quin26

  Batteries would be great. however the flashlight would be something that might take say a smaller battery and need replace/repair like the pickaxe at the iron level and above that way you can make a stock of super up AAA's or something to fix it along with whatever else needs small batteries. however solar panels might need a much larger storage option. perhaps a car battery sized object or even bigger anyone with a solar array on there home with batteries attached to it knows those things aren't small. but they'll definitely power your house for a while. these batteries would have a slower charge so they wouldn't need replacing as much because batteries will loose recharge ability over time. whereas the AAA like ones will have a faster charge but be easier and quicker to make in return having a worse recharge rate.

• 25 Jul, '22
  Elissa - Producer Admin Merged

  "[suggestion] add batteries" (suggested by bruno esteves on 2022-07-23), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

• 30 Aug, '22
  UnwashedBiomass Merged

  With solar panels and increased need for power during night it is "must have". Also auto switches for ceiling/wall lamps would be nice.

• 13 Sep, '22
  janekburn Merged

  For if u wish to use solar power then that could be used for the day and then a battery just enough to keep the lights on of a night time or maybe more. You could have a solar farm or a windfarm. We don't need to pollute another planet GT would not approve ;)

• 24 Sep, '22
  Garoomf Merged

  same as https://icarus.featureupvote.com/suggestions/285726/suggestion-backup-battery-for-solar-panel

• 24 Sep, '22
  Garoomf Merged

  same as https://icarus.featureupvote.com/suggestions/285726/suggestion-backup-battery-for-solar-panel

• 27 Sep, '22
  Sabre070 - Designer Admin

  "[Suggestion] Add battery" (suggested by tom on 2022-04-07), including upvotes (36) and comments (6), was merged into this suggestion.

• 27 Sep, '22
  Sabre070 - Designer Admin

  "Backup Battery for Solar or Windmill for those looking at Clean Energy" (suggested by janekburn on 2022-09-13), including upvotes (9) and comments (1), was merged into this suggestion.

• 12 Nov, '22
  HimiTosi

  Alternative to a backup battery, Add a setting generators to auto turn on if no other power is available, (Turn on when solar panels are no longer providing power). Realistically if you can build a solar panel, you can build a simple on off circuit.

• 16 Nov, '22
  Beardlasers Merged

  It would be great to see further power management implemented into the gam. With the technology and ability to build solar panels it would be easy to imagine that batteries could also be constructed so you could work into the night with stored power.

• 19 Nov, '22
  Levi K Merged

  Kinda of makes solar panels hard to deal with since you will lose power in its current state at night where you actually need light. Right now you must have a Generator to make it work.

• 04 Dec, '22
  Terry Merged

  It would be great if there was a Battery Backup / UPS solution for Solar applications, so any unused capacity in Solar Generation can go to charge a battery bank. Would be really helpful for the Artic especially, when you might build next to a mountain and dont see sun until mid morning, or even for just overnight usage for like a Heater etc.
  The more generation you have free, the faster the battery charges - potentially. And then it pulls from storage overnight or when the sun isnt shining, so you can continue to have heating etc.

• 06 Dec, '22
  Elissa - Producer Admin

  "Battery Backup / UPS - For Solar applications" (suggested by Terry on 2022-12-04), including upvotes (2) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

• 11 Dec, '22
  WindWraith Merged

  Yep. This should be merged with the other post on backup batteries for solar panels. It only makes sense to have batteries.