I may look into this again; nice idea. I dont know what affect running off solar only has on the panels; maybe in reality it doesnt; just charged batteries. Also wondering if there is a way not to use this early on; or if when it is used the system has no output during cleaning. I am probly overthinking as usual. Nice Mod might try soon !

Hmm. I took a look and this still works as intended in otherwise unmodded tkom. Because of the art asset, 50% covered appears much more covered than you'd think and it doesn't start while power generation of clean cells is below 18 watts. You should see it blow off a ton of debris every morning.

I don't think this works anymore. :P My solar panels are always covered in dust within a few hours.

This is a nice idea but I wouldnt not use it in remote locations reason is that it could cause severe power drains on the batteries shortening their life spans; IE many changes or power fluctuations over a shorter period of time; probly not use it all. I could be wrong on charging of batteries but I would go with the idea of letting the battery drain and charging it once, not charging it to many times. It would be a checklist of things to do on the base; ie run power off the batteries not the solar panels.

This doesn't appear to do anything for me so far.

I'm hoping this will work with test branch as I always play on it - but it looks like an interesting mod to include..

Done.

If you'd like people to see the science behind this, I suggest linking it here in the description:
http://www.electrostatics.org/images/esa_2008_o1.pdf