I am new to factorio.
Best accumulator solar panel setup factorio.
The night time set would have the accumulators.
During daylight hours every panel provides the maximum power level 60kw.
Though in all honesty you probably aren t ready for solar panels yet if the cost bothers you.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The accumulator stores a limited amount of energy when available production exceeds demand and releases it in the opposite case.
How many solar panels does it take to charge an accumulator in 1 day.
The accumulator can store up to 5 mj of energy.
If connected to a circuit network an accumulator will output its level of charge as an integer from 0 to 100 to a specified signal.
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 one solar panel produces an average of 42 kw over one day and night cycle.
Image credit u deamonengineer probably.
Generated power will increase decrease linearly during dusk and dawn and no power is produced at night.
For each 5 solar panels you need 3 accumulators.
You need 17 solar panels for each steam engine running at max capacity.
Or more precisely you need power consumption in w 30 kw solar panels.
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.
Its maximum charge discharge rate is 300 kw.
I had found that a ratio of 1 2 to 1 5 accumulators per solar panel worked out perfectly fine.
Solar panels are an unlimited source of free energy that produce no pollution.
