Factorio is a game in which you build and maintain factories.
Factorio solar panel rates.
How many solar panels does it take to charge an accumulator in 1 day.
Solar panels and accumulators optimal ratio.
3 new steam turbines for mid game.
This is only a sliver of the info available.
Accumulator ratio 70 solar panel power accumulator energy for example using vanilla values.
50 extra capacity or use 80 of accu storage and have 20 as buffer.
This is a compendium of the most common factorio facts as of v1 0 release.
Such as the wiki reddit and factorio discord from which this is all based on.
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.
The solar panel with the highest watt is the sunpower e series a commercial solar panel line.
You may find an essay on the subject which outlines the techniques used in this calculator here.
I am new to factorio.
This calculator is the result of a few years worth of fooling around off and on with performing calculations using factorio s recipe graph.
The night time set would have the accumulators.
4 thermal solar panels that produce heat instead of energy.
Proper handling of oil products.
3 heat storages based on molten salt technology.
When just looking at residential solar panels the top wattage panel available is the sunpower a series ac module the top panel in the a series line boasts a wattage of 425 watts.
I would like to set up a set of solar panels for use in the daytime then another set that would be used at night.
3 new basic heat exchangers for mid game not intended for nuclear power use a cheaper thermal conduit for early game.
A huge thanks to to all the contributors on github as well as the community who made the previous cheat sheets and other resources.
70 60 000 5 000 000 0 84 if you are a nerd who likes units to match the constant is 70 seconds.
Solar panel accumulator ratios math i was looking for a good ratio for solar panels and accumulators and what i wanted was a number i could use to estimate the number of panels and accus required to give me say.
Portable solar panels are the basic power generating units for modular armor and the spidertron they provide only a small amount of power and only during the daytime.
The top panel in the e series comes out at a whopping 435 watts.