Same, added the computer cores that should affect PD, tried putting them on the edge of the hull thinking it might be a range issue but that wasn't it either. Would like to get them to work as clusters/flak just don't cut it against missile boats.

It's very strong vs missiles

can't get em to work either, I don't think they're implemented

Just built a ship with emitters. They have ports but didn't light up when connected to energy. Nothing in ship controls. Doing nothing in combat. I see enemy ships fire on incoming missiles but I'm guessing that's actual turret weapons. Not sure how to make my own crew do defensive fire.

Update:

So I threw some of these on a ship just for the hell of it recently thinking they might be fixed soon, but chose not to use any computer rooms buffing PDs and they did seem to shoot down a few missiles this time. I haven't tested extensively, but I suspect something about the computer rooms might be interfering with their proper operation possibly.

PDE needs to be connected to level 2 capacitor - hence blue connection on PDE, same as on the lvl 2 capacitors. When you connect the schematics doesn't show PDE light up. But once you are in an actual live ship, you see that the capacitor feeding the PDE and PDE stores energy enternally. It finally gors from 0/6 to 6/6.

That's really strange. I'm sure stock ships with PD don't have them hooked up like that.

Originally posted by Umbral Reaver:

That's really strange. I'm sure stock ships with PD don't have them hooked up like that.

they don't , but maybe it just works for the AI
It is worth noting if you put 10-15 of this on PD components on a ship , missile seem to exploed around your ship more often , maybe it's an animation issue?