Keep in mind that these numbers are approximate you may want to have a buffer for laser turrets if nothing else.
Factorio solar panel accumulator layout.
Reduced collision box of big electric pole to allow squeezing between it and an accumulator.
This way solar panels can spill over two of the sides making each substation cover effectively a 22x18 area rather than 18x18.
This means one solar panel produces an average of 42 kw over one day and night cycle.
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If you use the layout shown in katherine s guide and other places this utilises 180 solar panels and 151 accumulators to provide approximately 10mw per block day and night.
I had found that a ratio of 1 2 to 1 5 accumulators per solar panel worked out perfectly fine.
Generated power will increase decrease linearly during dusk and dawn and no power is produced at night.
The correct ratio is 0 84 so 100 panels 84 accumulators will keep 24 hour supply of the appropriate power.
For each 5 solar panels you need 3 accumulators.
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Now connectible to the circuit network.
This is a 25 21 0 84 ratio solar panel accumulator layout that i came up with and i didn t see it posted anywhere so i wanted to share it with the community.
Solar panels are an unlimited source of free energy that produce no pollution.
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.
Solar panels and accumulators optimal ratio.
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.
Or more precisely you need power consumption in w 30 kw solar panels.
But the ratio is off it s 26 accumulators and 32 panels for a ratio of 0 8125.
When you fill in this 22x18 area with panels and accumulators it looks like this.
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.
During daylight hours every panel provides the maximum power level 60kw.
