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.
Factorio placing solar panels.
Then multiply the number of solar panels required by 0 84 that gives you the number of accumulators required to store power for the night.
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.
For example if you use 30mw you need.
This way solar panels can spill over two of the sides making each substation cover effectively a 22x18 area rather than 18x18.
We cover zuri s mk3 setup which includes a robo.
I was reading in an old thread about a 84 ratio of accumulators to solar panels being ideal.
Keep in mind the game uses kw or mw or gw seconds as defualt which is why i converted to them in the calculations.
Batteries size 4x4 cells can accommodate 250 mj of energy which is also 50 more vanilla option but the cost is 50 times higher.
715 0 84 600 accumulators.
Solar panels size 13x13 cells capable of generating 1500 kw of electricity it is 25 times more than the vanilla option but the cost is 25 times higher.
When you fill in this 22x18 area with panels and accumulators it looks like this.
But it s not quite that simple because you need an excess of energy production during the day which the accumulators will absorb and then give back at night.
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.
A simple example might be two pumpjacks out in the middle of nowhere so i want to make them solar powered.
A solar panel is a device designed in a way to absorb the sun s rays as a source of energy for production of heating or electricity.
But the ratio is off it s 26 accumulators and 32 panels for a ratio of 0 8125.
This can also be used to calculate what you need to power a remote mining oil pumping or radar outpost.
30mw 0 042mw 715 solar panels.
Solar panels and accumulators optimal ratio.
In this workshop video xterminator and madzuri go over some solar and accumulator builds designs layouts.
