Solar Panel Setup Factorio

Welcome to a vanilla factorio 0 17.

Solar panel setup factorio. Join me as i explore 0 17 and try to transition from a single rocket base into a megabase. 2628 accumulators 3118 solar panels 0 8428. 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. My base will burn through about half of my accumulator charge when it is producing at a moderate clip.

Spaghetti might happen i was asked to link to the solar. 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. 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. Currently i have 38000 solar panels 31000 accumulators and 1700 steam engines.

Mk1 a mark one is just a bunch of poles with y know solar panels mixed in madzuri nov 2016 mk2 focuses on ratios mk3 uses roboports to construct the tile mk4 uses a diagonal spacing to reduce roboports and ups mk5 makes use of most if not all of the radar range. My setup uses about 75 solar panels for every accumulator. 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. 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. Here is a quite popular blueprintable design by madzuri. Solar panels and accumulators optimal ratio. During daylight hours every panel provides the maximum power level 60kw.

Generated power will increase decrease linearly during dusk and dawn and no power is produced at night. 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. This means one solar panel produces an average of 42 kw over one day and night cycle. Solar panels are an unlimited source of free energy that produce no pollution.