Solar panels and accumulators optimal ratio.
Factorio solar panels to accumulators.
The accumulators start delivering power when the output of your panels drops below p during dusk not at the beginning of dusk.
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.
In general this is a technique which works well when you ve just researched accumulators and solar panels but don t have enough resources to build big solar farms and accumulator farms yet.
Standard from the base game advances elite and ultimate.
1 j 1 w measured over 1 second.
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.
Each tier takes 10 of the previous tier objects and produces or stores 10x the energy.
A single solar panel outputs an average of 42 kw over a day and requires 0 84 accumulators to sustain a constant power output through the night.
Quote from factorio wiki.
So for a 100 mw factory you d need 100 m 200 5 m 4 000 accumulators.
I am new to factorio.
Solar panels gives 60 kw at full light which is iirc around 200 seconds.
A close enough ratio is 20 24 1 accumulators to solar panels to megawatts required for example a factory requiring 10 mw can be approximately.
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.
Essentially you are saying only deliver power to these systems if i have enough to spare and even then don t exceed this delivery rate.
Night including dusk and dawn is around 200 seconds.
While the sun is out your solar panels have to output q power where q p.
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.
Advanced solar and accumulators.
The accumulators stop delivering power when the output of your panels is above p during dawn not at the beginning of dawn.
This mod provides up to 4 levels of solar and accumulators.
Tier 1 are the standard built in solar panels and accumulators.
It takes 23 8 solar panels to operate 1 mw of factory and charge 20 accumulators to sustain that 1 mw through the night.
A radar can be continuously powered by eight solar panels and six accumulators.
Now with upgrade planner support.
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.
