To sustain same 100 mw factory you d need 100 m 60 k 1 667 solar panels.
Factorio solar panels to accumulators.
0 15 0 18 downloaded.
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.
I am new to factorio.
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.
The accumulators are used to absorb spikes in power requirements such as large scale attacks like when the outposts get a boost to artillery range.
Accumulators are way cheaper than solar panels.
First tier is 5x power second tier 5x the first.
Based on advanced electric mod but toned down.
The solar panels like the steam engines are no longer relied upon to power the factory.
During daylight hours every panel provides the maximum power level 60kw.
Solar panels use more than twice the amount of space than accumulators.
Solar panels and accumulators optimal ratio.
Even if you consider 10 oil being worth 1 copper or iron ore personally i consider oil free like water since it is.
Lastly there has to be a surplus of solar power to recharge those accumulators during day.
There is no way we will save more than two accumulators with each additional solar panel.
The ratios posted result in more solar panels then are needed to power factory and charge accumulators i had posted this in a topic on the steam forum a week ago when somebody was asking about solar panels and another person brought up the 0 8 1 ratio.
I had found that a ratio of 1 2 to 1 5 accumulators per solar panel worked out perfectly fine.
In general this is a technique which works well when you ve just researched accumulators and solar panels but don t have enough resources to build big solar farms and accumulator farms yet.
The night time set would have the accumulators.
4 000 accumulators would need 4 000 5 20 000 additional solar panels to charge at full 300 kw speed but luckily we have 200 full daylight seconds to recharge so you ll do.
The role of the accumulators changes to indicate when i need to feed the reactors.
Redid graphics and technology structure and costs.
Essentially you are saying only deliver power to these systems if i have enough to spare and even then don t exceed this delivery rate.
How many solar panels does it take to charge an accumulator in 1 day.
