Factorio Better Solar Panels

This means one solar panel produces an average of 42 kw over one day and night cycle.

Factorio better solar panels.

This means you ll need over 850 panels and almost just as much capacitors to match a single offshore pumps worth of steam engine. As far as i can see is the accumulator from the satelitte recipe the default factorio version. 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. Added 10x 100x and 1 000x solar panels and accumulator for better space management to craft you need.

Put the zip in your mods folder do not extract factorio mods description. Keep in mind the game uses kw or mw or gw seconds as defualt which is why i converted to them in the calculations. A full steam engine setup on 1 offshore pipe is 40 engines. Then we ceil that as we have to have an integer for our solar panel count and we get 47 solar panels producing 2820 kw seconds or 10 152 gw hours.

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. Generated power will increase decrease linearly during dusk and dawn and no power is produced at night. 1 do big solar panel research after solar energy. 10 months ago 0 17 2717.

Though in all honesty you probably aren t ready for solar panels yet if the cost bothers you. Better bob s solar panels. As for which to actually pick i d say it s up to your preference cilya s design with accumulators instead of a roboport is the only one with perfect 0 86 ratio among popular designs used by factorio players. During daylight hours every panel provides the maximum power level 60kw.

Also adds an option to remove the alternate solar panels accumulators. Hexagonhexagon 10 months ago. Makes bob s solar panels and accumulators stronger. 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.