Solar panels require research to unlock use way more resources to build produce significantly less power use significantly more room and require you to store power to keep the lights on at night.
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Assemblers to build solar panels and accumulators a long conveyor or trains to carry them out to the construction area roboports and blueprints to lay them down.
Once i get solar i set up a little fab.
I was laying blueprints of 720 solar panels and 1 2k accumulators.
The accumulator can store up to 5 mj of energy.
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Solar panels will only generate power during the day.
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A full steam engine setup on 1 offshore pipe is 40 engines.
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The accumulator stores a limited amount of energy when available production exceeds demand and releases it in the opposite case.
Ok so basically i need a f ckton of solar panels and i need to make so much that the accumulators is stoeing energy ok another thing to do for project.
Really didn t take much effort.
This means you ll need over 850 panels and almost just as much capacitors to match a single offshore pumps worth of steam engine.
Cons requires a crap ton of space the amount of solar panels and capacitors required to match a steam engine is 21 panels and about 18 19 capacitors.
Its maximum charge discharge rate is 300 kw.
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.
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Generated power will increase decrease linearly during dusk and dawn and no power is produced at night.
During daylight hours every panel provides the maximum power level 60kw.
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.
Pretty soon i have a few dozen solar panels and i can unplug my starter 10 14 1 steam setup.
The only real time spent is clearing a large enough area of nests and large boulders.
In my last game i had 120 solar panels before i got around to making it a 24 7 shop.
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It gives a little time for pollution to disperse.
Solar panels are an unlimited source of free energy that produce no pollution.
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Solar panels and accumulators optimal ratio.
At first the factory shuts down at night.
You can set up a circuit network with a power switch to basically have your steam engines turn on when the accumulators get low on power.
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.