Solar Panel Setup Factorio

Solar panels are an unlimited source of free energy that produce no pollution.

Solar panel setup factorio.

The optimal ratio is 0 84 21 25 accumulators per solar panel and 23 8 solar panels per megawatt required by your factory this ratio accounts for solar panels needed to charge the accumulators this means that you need 1 428 mw of production of solar panels and 100mj of storage to provide 1 mw of power over one day night cycle. Solar panels and accumulators optimal ratio. During daylight hours every panel provides the maximum power level 60kw. Portable solar panels are the basic power generating units for modular armor and the spidertron they provide only a small amount of power and only during the daytime.

How many solar panels does it take to charge an accumulator in 1 day. Its not exact and it changes as i plop down more every so often. Portable solar panels can be used to slowly recharge energy shields out of combat but are nearly useless for personal laser defense or exoskeleton even with a large number of batteries. You can always sacrifice a bit of the optimal ratio for a cleaner design but you should stay in the area of 0 8 0 9.

Currently i have 38000 solar panels 31000 accumulators and 1700 steam engines. Looks like 912 accumulators to 16 solar panels which is a 0 560 75 ratio the optimal ratio is 0 84 thus a more ideal setup would be 21 accumulators to 25 solar panels. I would like to set up a set of solar panels for use in the daytime then another set that would be used at night. This means one solar panel produces an average of 42 kw over one day and night cycle.

The night time set would have the accumulators. My base will burn through about half of my accumulator charge when it is producing at a moderate clip. My setup uses about 75 solar panels for every accumulator.