@ Pantherr - Thank you for the vote of confidence! I hope they serve you as well as they have me

@draynor I've only played single player so, i don't have any experience with unique server settings, unfortunately.
However, i've used the Flak and Cannon Models extensively in my survival games and never ran low on power. The turrets seem to use very little compared to what the 4x Panels are capable of producing.
I'll let a game run tomorrow for a few hours and determine the capability of the 4x Capacitors in the scenario that the Panels fail to function entirely.

the good thing about a backup generator and fuel tank is that you don't NEED to turn it on if the solar is working fine. I tend to do one of two things on my builds... backup generator OR overkill on capacitors. 30 capacitors for example once charged will power something like this for days.. maybe even a week... in the dark. some servers have fluky solar, others work fine

Sounds great, I look forward to trying them out :)

Added a Small Gen and 2x Small Fuel Tanks to all 4 Models to maintain minimal cost and make sure those bastard clouds don't prevent us from defending ourselves!
Credit given to draynor9.

@Pantherr - I do the same, hence why the thought never occurred to me. But, a good suggestion is still a good one!

Well I always try and put my base on the equator so I can use solar to power it, so this would be good to use.

That's a fair assessment. I hadn't done a lot of testing on the more advanced towers but, the cheaper ones soaked up so much solar that it never occurred to me the gen would be useful.

I'll add a gen and fuel tank to all 4 models in the coming days.
They'd still be cheap and you can never be too safe.

Thank you for the input.

That's a good point actually.. Still, I do like the design and the fact that it's solar powered so I'll try it out at some point..

would be nice it your defense towers had a small generator and fuel tank as backup for cloudy days