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More Solar Panels Power Balanced

UPDATE: removed small steel tubes from component list, still has more solar cells in than vanilla, needed for smaller panel to be balanced.
UPDATE: reduced solar cell counts a bit, to be closer to 1.189

Finally a Modern Solar panel mod, that adds just 1 extra smaller solar panel per grid.

Sorry in advance for the wall of text, this was a bit of a ground-breaking development for me :)
Things took a while as i was learning 3D modelling as things are broken, guides are outdated, and official documentation is even more outdated than the community created guides, KEEN's official modelling tools dont fully work, but with some perserverance (and frustration) and and a better working model builder program that was fixed by Eikester and some information from Shoustoul i was finally able to shrink the original small grid solar panel for this mod

Power output of all solar panels is increased slightly in this mod, the same as my Solar Panel Power Balance mod here:
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=763329241
You wont need that old mod if you use this new one.

Extra Solar panels:
The smaller solar panel for the large grid, is actually the original small grid solar panel
so this has the same power output as the now small grid large panel 45kW at full sun exposure

The smaller solar panel for the small grid, is the resized model but it does not follow the same 25% of the size of the previous, this one is 60% of the original size (40% smaller), to make it fit into the 3x6x1 block shape, so its power output is set at 32kW, this smaller one fits much nicer into small grid ship/rover builds

Solar panel power outputs and at full sun exposure and Solar Cell main component usage:
Large Grid Large Solar Panel
180kW / 48 Solarcells (was 64)

Large Grid Small Solar Panel
45kW / 12 Solarcells (was 16)

Small Grid Large Solar Panel
45kW / 12 Solarcells (was 16)

Small Grid Small Solar Panel
30kW / 8 Solarcells (was 32kW + 10 cells)

still more solar cells than vanilla 1.189 but less than previously

Some other build component requirements have been altered to fit these extra solar panels in, but the exact alterations are not worth mentioning, one thing that is worth mentioning, i made the 'computers' the 'critical' component, so now when solar panels get shot at, the damage doesnt have to kill every single SolarCell to kill the critical computer component, although some may still get damaged.

Fully colorable like the original, survival ready with Construction Stages and LOD models

To do list:
A proper Physics/collision mesh, the original would not shrink down with the method i used for the model, so it was removed, SE will just default to a basic one that takes up the entire 'block'

The new model technically belongs to KSH, i just shrank it a little, same with the smaller solar panel icon
Feel free to use any part of this mod in anyway you wish, but please add onto your mod page, a link to either this mod page, or to my workshop page if you use the resized solar panel models 'Small3x6SolarPanel' in your mods :)