Factorio Solar Panel Accumulator Layout

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Factorio solar panel accumulator layout.

This way solar panels can spill over two of the sides making each substation cover effectively a 22x18 area rather than 18x18. Now connectible to the circuit network. Solar panels are an unlimited source of free energy that produce no pollution. Generated power will increase decrease linearly during dusk and dawn and no power is produced at night.

Overall this design has a continuous power rating excluding roboport drain of 8 232mw. This layout has 170 accumulators and 196 panels. Keep in mind that these numbers are approximate you may want to have a buffer for laser turrets if nothing else. There are either 5 36 extra accumulators or 6 38 missing solar panels.

This means one solar panel produces an average of 42 kw over one day and night cycle. During daylight hours every panel provides the maximum power level 60kw. Or more precisely you need power consumption in w 30 kw solar panels. For each 5 solar panels you need 3 accumulators.

The ideal ratio is 0 84 accumulators panel. After the initial production to catch up with surpass steam i just limit production via logistics network to 10mw of additional capacity and stamp down more solar panel field blueprints as needed. Solar panels and accumulators optimal ratio. This tutorial covers solar panel arrangements to use at various stages of the game including the building of the massive ratio perfect array from this foru.

Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. 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. 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. Reduced collision box of big electric pole to allow squeezing between it and an accumulator.

I only bother with 2 solar panel 2 accumulator assemblers and that s probably overkill. But the ratio is off it s 26 accumulators and 32 panels for a ratio of 0 8125. Something to consider is that many people like replacing a solar panel with a radar in order to get the coverage needed to deal with blueprints from map mode. When you fill in this 22x18 area with panels and accumulators it looks like this.