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• What did you do?
  Started building radar outposts to uncover more of the map
• What happened?
  When supplying exactly 300kW (5 solar panels) to a radar it requests 320kW
• What did you expect to happen instead? It might be obvious to you, but do it anyway!
  I expected it to draw exactly 300kW instead of more than it says it should
• Does it happen always, once, or sometimes?
  Always when initially powering it up, if you oversupply energy it no longer needs more than 300kW OR if you attach a big enough power storage it also no longer draws more than 300kW

5 solar panels 60kW each can't seem to fully power a single radar
with 5 solar panels with 7 solar panels test with an energy electric interface

Similar to 125970, the entity is trying to “catch up” to the steady-state consumption rate; but since the charge bar is less than 100% it must “draw” a little bit extra.

Duplicate 111595. It is consuming 300kW but it wants a little bit more to top-up the buffer.