Here is a quite popular blueprintable design by madzuri.
Factorio solar panel accumulator setup.
The accumulator can store up to 5 mj of energy.
I am new to factorio.
Solar power 60 kw.
Solar panels are an unlimited source of free energy that produce no pollution.
During daylight hours every panel provides the maximum power level 60kw.
Dawn or dusk 5000 60 s.
The solar panel was added because you can now separate the accumulator from your main electricity.
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.
A radar can be continuously powered by eight solar panels and six accumulators.
Night 2500 60 s and the default.
70 60 000 5 000 000 0 84 if you are a nerd who likes units to match the constant is 70 seconds.
The night time set would have the accumulators.
It gives the radar full power all but a short time in the morning but never dips below the 20 power threshold for nearby scanning.
This means one solar panel produces an average of 42 kw over one day and night cycle.
Generated power will increase decrease linearly during dusk and dawn and no power is produced at night.
Day 12500 60 s.
The optimal ratio is 0 84 thus a more ideal setup would be 21 accumulators to 25 solar panels.
Looks like 9 12 accumulators to 16 solar panels which is a 0 56 0 75 ratio.
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.
Seven solar panels and five accumulators is the most efficient.
Its maximum charge discharge rate is 300 kw.
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.
Accumulator energy 5 mj 5000 kj gives the optimal ratio of 0 84 accumulators per solar panel.
The accumulator stores a limited amount of energy when available production exceeds demand and releases it in the opposite case.
Davemcw wrote accumulator ratio 70 solar panel power accumulator energy for example using vanilla values.
Perfectly work for covering the laser turrets spikes now.
How many solar panels does it take to charge an accumulator in 1 day.
