This tutorial covers solar panel arrangements to use at various stages of the game including the building of the massive ratio perfect array from this foru.
Factorio solar panel design.
10 1 000 000 10000000 to get the kw hours 10000000 60 60 2777 7777777777777777777777777778 to get kw seconds 2777 7777777777777777777777777778 60 46 29629 as a solar panel produces 60 kw.
Accumulators can store output energy 5 times faster than solar panels can supply so if you ve got about three times more solar panels than you need energy.
During daylight hours every panel provides the maximum power level 60kw.
2628 accumulators 3118 solar panels 0 8428.
I like to go for a 1 1 ratio of accumulators to solar panels.
The first arithmetic combinator takes the number of accumulators in the chest and multiplies it by 24.
Though in all honesty you probably aren t ready for solar panels yet if the cost bothers you.
The second arithmetic combinator takes the output of the first combinator and divides it by 20.
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.
To calculate the number of panels to get 10 gw hours are is follows.
Solar panels and accumulators optimal ratio.
However i was not happy with the solar panel accumulator ratio in this design.
Moreover it allow your solar panel farm to be a safe way for drones.
Solar panels are an unlimited source of free energy that produce no pollution.
Otherwise it s a lot more time invested in the building of those and you spend much more time placing solar panels than doing anything else.
Balanced solar panel accumulator production.
Note your roboports will be closer together here which isn t necessarily a bad thing depending on your base.
This means one solar panel produces an average of 42 kw over one day and night cycle.
Space is generally not the rarest resource in factorio.
This circuit balances production of solar panels and accumulators to a desired ratio in my case 24 20.
You should never run into issues.
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.
Generated power will increase decrease linearly during dusk and dawn and no power is produced at night.
