If they don t last the night build more batteries.
Solar panel accumulator ratio factorio.
Solar panels and accumulators optimal ratio.
While the sun is out your solar panels have to output q power where q p.
If your batteries can t fully charge during the day build more solar.
Dusk dawn so on average they produce 70 of nominal power.
Just divide if you need a decimal.
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.
The ratio doesn t matter nearly as much as people seem to think it does.
The ratio 100 solar panels to 84 accumulators is optimized for solar panels first than for accumulators.
Provide power p recharge accumulators.
You see with solar there is some initial investment but after that power is simply free.
Now you have enough for a while.
Reverse operation ratio from decimal needs multiplication and reduction by the largest common divisor.
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.
Solar panels are producing 0 nominal power 10 of the day.
The accumulator can store up to 5 mj of energy.
We would need the fewest accumulators if we would just draw power from them if solar panels would produce no power at all.
Its maximum charge discharge rate is 300 kw.
Anyway here s the source.
We could do that the other way around.
Solar is the ultimate in resource to power ratio.
In the perfect ratio it gives you 42kw per solar cell for 0 resources amortized over time.
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.
Your solar panels have 2 functions.
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.
Night solar panels are producing 50 nominal power 40 of the day.
Every other power source requires a constant influx of resources to produce power.
I had found that a ratio of 1 2 to 1 5 accumulators per solar panel worked out perfectly fine.
The b accumulator b stores a limited amount of energy when available production exceeds demand and releases it in the opposite case.
Then when both of those are met build some more.
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.
