# 0.C-5731 - Hotplate and mess kit charges are not being used

**URL:** <https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/0-c-5731-hotplate-and-mess-kit-charges-are-not-being-used/12756>\
**Category:** The Garage\
**Created:** [October 19, 2016, 4:15pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/0-c-5731-hotplate-and-mess-kit-charges-are-not-being-used/12756 "2016-10-19T16:15:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![BeerBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c67d28/32.png) [@BeerBeer](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/BeerBeer)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2016, 4:15pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/0-c-5731-hotplate-and-mess-kit-charges-are-not-being-used/12756/1 "2016-10-19T16:15:43Z")

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Windows, tiles.

My char is in the car on a reading binge. Occasionally I cook up a meal. I had put a fully charged hotplate and a mess kit in the adjacent trunk earlier. So I keep reading, cooking, reading, cooking, sleeping, cooking etc. Then I start to wonder how the hotplate and the mess kit are doing… Turns out they’re still both fully charged… They’re both unmodified, running off of regular batteries… well, I mean, supposed to be.

Can’t explain that.

Edit: If I take one or the other device in my inventory, and choose to use that for cooking purposes, then the charges are used normally. But if I choose the device in the trunk, that one’s charges don’t get used.

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**Author:** ![KiBoy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/kiboy/32/5863_2.png) [@KiBoy](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/KiBoy)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2016, 6:36am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/0-c-5731-hotplate-and-mess-kit-charges-are-not-being-used/12756/2 "2016-10-20T06:36:57Z")

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Are you sure you aren’t in something like a RV that has a kitchen unit that runs off batteries or something? Maybe there’s another mess kit/hotplate around?

If the answer to both of those is no, then idk.

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**Author:** ![BeerBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c67d28/32.png) [@BeerBeer](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/BeerBeer)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2016, 9:27am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/0-c-5731-hotplate-and-mess-kit-charges-are-not-being-used/12756/3 "2016-10-20T09:27:55Z")

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I’ve cooked hundreds of meals. Boiled gallons upon gallons of water. No kitchen unit. Not once I’ve had to reload/recharge anything while doing so.

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**Author:** ![KiBoy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/kiboy/32/5863_2.png) [@KiBoy](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/KiBoy)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2016, 10:24am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/0-c-5731-hotplate-and-mess-kit-charges-are-not-being-used/12756/4 "2016-10-20T10:24:28Z")

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I have no idea then.

Maybe it could help if you posted your save file somewhere for others to check out.