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.
Factorio solar panel to accumulator ratio.
We would need the fewest accumulators if we would just draw power from them if solar panels would produce no power at all.
The amount of solar panels and accumulators you need is more.
Solar panels and accumulators optimal ratio.
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.
If they don t last the night build more batteries.
I had found that a ratio of 1 2 to 1 5 accumulators per solar panel worked out perfectly fine.
Night solar panels are producing 50 nominal power 40 of the day.
So for 2 1mw this works out to 50 solar panels and 42 accumulators exactly.
If your batteries can t fully charge during the day build more solar.
Alternatively this works out to a ratio of 25 solar panels to 21 accumulators level 2.
When accumulator and solar tech is first obtained i establish the ratio on a blueprint.
Dusk dawn so on average they produce 70 of nominal power.
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.
8571 3 7 kw solar panels 600 mj capacity of accumulators so the result is we need 25 21 1 190476 period 6 more solar panels than accumulators.
We could do that the other way around.
500 21 p mw solar panels 20 p mw accumulators.
The ratio 100 solar panels to 84 accumulators is optimized for solar panels first than for accumulators.
So the op post is 100 accurate.
Your solar panels have 2 functions.
The ratio doesn t matter nearly as much as people seem to think it does.
These are the numbers i use.
Or we can say we need 25 solar panels per 21 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.
While the sun is out your solar panels have to output q power where q p.
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.
Now you have enough for a while.
For me it is 1 1 mainly because of the spatial design easily tile able and low supply for the slow conbots out of the mk1 personal roboport not because of any other reason.
Solar panels are producing 0 nominal power 10 of the day.
