Optimal Factorio Solar Panel Layout

I don t beleve in perfect ratios for solar.

Optimal factorio solar panel layout.

Optimal production with my world settings would be 5 10 of both panels and accumulators. Plop a sub station down and fill it with solar pannels. The basics of solar panel layout. It has 0 84 accumulator panel ratio which is as close as you can get with a perfect square shaped design with proper power lines.

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. This so sums up factorio perfectionism and practicalism. Just add as needed for each. Designing production lines is a huge headache for me so i enjoy finding schematics of proven effective designs and building them.

I leave a space to walk between. Remember if you don t have enough solar panels things simply don t run as fast but if you don t have enough capacitors your entire base will shut down at night which can and will kill you in the right circumstances. Which made his her design the perfect layout when ratio s considered. I m a big fan of this design.

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. Well everything except symmetry. We assume that your roof is like most residential roofs encountered in north america a pitched roof over plywood decking on a wood rafter truss system. Also there are more capacitors than panels because capacitors are far more important.

In this post we will go through the basics of solar panel layout to accurately determining how many panels will fit on your roof. I m very new here and i just discovered that you only need a few solar panels to fully charge a huge network of accumulators. Simple brilliance by seeing no barriers and having no fear of thinking different thirteen year old aidan dwyer in a 7th grade solar energy project made an astounding discovery. The solar panels pull in enough power during one day to easily charge my accumulators with 8 9gj which is more than enough to fully run all aspects of my base even when it is operating at maximum capacity in both production and purple science research day and night.

Solar panels and accumulators optimal ratio. It has an annoying tendency to rotate while placing the blueprint for whatever reason. Perhaps natural selection has answered this question.