Factorio Better Solar Panels

This mod buffs the solar panels bob s offers 2x 4x or 8x increase each tier as well as removes the small large solar panels and slow fast high capacity accumulators so you can use all your normal solar blueprints in bob s mods this can be.

Factorio better solar panels.

Better bob s solar panels. As far as i can see is the accumulator from the satelitte recipe the default factorio version. Cons requires a crap ton of space the amount of solar panels and capacitors required to match a steam engine is 21 panels and about 18 19 capacitors. Solar panels are an unlimited source of free energy that produce no pollution.

This means one solar panel produces an average of 42 kw over one day and night cycle. Added 10x 100x and 1 000x solar panels and accumulator for better space management to craft you need. A full steam engine setup on 1 offshore pipe is 40 engines. 1 do big solar panel research after solar energy.

Keep in mind the game uses kw or mw or gw seconds as defualt which is why i converted to them in the calculations. Hexagonhexagon 10 months ago. 10 months ago 0 17 2717. Generated power will increase decrease linearly during dusk and dawn and no power is produced at night.

Put the zip in your mods folder do not extract factorio mods description. As for which to actually pick i d say it s up to your preference cilya s design with accumulators instead of a roboport is the only one with perfect 0 86 ratio among popular designs used by factorio players. During daylight hours every panel provides the maximum power level 60kw. Then we ceil that as we have to have an integer for our solar panel count and we get 47 solar panels producing 2820 kw seconds or 10 152 gw hours.

Better bob s solar panels. Also adds an option to remove the alternate solar panels accumulators. Though in all honesty you probably aren t ready for solar panels yet if the cost bothers you. 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.