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Solar panel aligner and base energy Manager

Panel alignment based on shadowing principle, it uses 4 panels with 2 block height light armor walls in between.
The panels are top-left, top-right, bottom-left and bottom-right. The shadows of the walls controls the direction of the movement. It creates a difference in maximum output between the top-bottom and left-right panels and therefore controls the pan and tilt axis motors.
It supports slave motors in both axis and position inversion for creating T shape solar arrays.
Can be set up home orientation to align when no sun power detected.

The Energy manager part controls the accessible batteries and reactors.
It has two states:
- if there is enough energy with batteries and solar panels to supply energy requirement it switches off the grid-local reactors
- if not it puts batteries into depletion state and switches on reactors.
With this operation the reactors never charges batteries, and solar power is used for energising base or charging batteries when available.
Needs a timer block to start itself with 2 sec delay and run the programming block.
The panel names, directions are configurable at the starting section of the script.
It writes it's working state into programming block info section, and add charge level suffixes into batteries.

Survivor and DS ready.