The accumulator stores a limited amount of energy when available production exceeds demand and releases it in the opposite case.
Factorio solar panel accumulator layout.
Or more precisely you need power consumption in w 30 kw solar panels.
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.
This means one solar panel produces an average of 42 kw over one day and night cycle.
Generated power will increase decrease linearly during dusk and dawn and no power is produced at night.
The accumulator can store up to 5 mj of energy.
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Solar panels and accumulators optimal ratio.
The number of accumulators divided by the number of solar panels.
The first calculation is your accu solar 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.
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During daylight hours every panel provides the maximum power level 60kw.
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There are either 5 36 extra accumulators or 6 38 missing solar panels.
Overall this design has a continuous power rating excluding roboport drain of 8 232mw.
The ideal ratio is 0 84 accumulators panel.
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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Something to consider is that many people like replacing a solar panel with a radar in.
0 84 is the standard if you are building exactly the amount of power you need a little bit less than 0 84 means you have more solar panels which is good if you are planning to build too many of both and a little bit more than 0 84 means that you have more accumulators which is.
I had found that a ratio of 1 2 to 1 5 accumulators per solar panel worked out perfectly fine.
It as a space efficiency of 96 5 3 5 of the tiles used by the roboport and the substations are not used by solar panel and or accumulators and an accumulator solar panel ratio of 0 84.
Its maximum charge discharge rate is 300 kw.
Keep in mind that these numbers are approximate you may want to have a buffer for laser turrets if nothing else.
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You need 17 solar panels for each steam engine running at max capacity.
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.
For each 5 solar panels you need 3 accumulators.
