Solar Panel Factory Factorio

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Solar panel factory factorio. 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. There are either 5 36 extra accumulators or 6 38 missing solar panels. Find blueprints for the video game factorio. The b accumulator b stores a limited amount of energy when available production exceeds demand and releases it in the opposite case.

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. My searching abilities has only gotten images of actual solar farms not factories for producing these two components. Overall this design has a continuous power rating excluding roboport drain of 8 232mw. Solar panels and accumulators optimal ratio.

Its maximum charge discharge rate is 300 kw. Search the tags for mining smelting and advanced production blueprints. 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. This calculator is the result of a few years worth of fooling around off and on with performing calculations using factorio s recipe graph.

This means one solar panel produces an average of 42 kw over one day and night cycle. 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. Generated power will increase decrease linearly during dusk and dawn and no power is produced at night. Optimal production with my world settings would be 5 10 of both panels and accumulators.

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. This layout has 170 accumulators and 196 panels. Solar panels are an unlimited source of free energy that produce no pollution. During daylight hours every panel provides the maximum power level 60kw.

The accumulator can store up to 5 mj of energy. You may find an essay on the subject which outlines the techniques used in this calculator here.