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.
Factorio best solar panel layout.
Overall this design has a continuous power rating excluding roboport drain of 8 232mw.
Generated power will increase decrease linearly during dusk and dawn and no power is produced at night.
The ideal ratio is 0 84 accumulators panel.
As for which to actually pick i d say it s up to your preference cilya s design with accumulators instead of a roboport is the only one with perfect 0 86 ratio among popular designs used by factorio players.
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 and accumulators optimal ratio.
I leave a space to walk between.
This means one solar panel produces an average of 42 kw over one day and night cycle.
Solar panels are an unlimited source of free energy that produce no pollution.
I took to my sandbox editor and threw together a basic design checked it for ratios and found it a perfect 84 accumulators and 100 solar panels.
This so sums up factorio perfectionism and practicalism.
Just add as needed for each.
For each 5 solar panels you need 3 accumulators.
I don t beleve in perfect ratios for solar.
This layout has 170 accumulators and 196 panels.
Though in all honesty you probably aren t ready for solar panels yet if the cost bothers you.
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There are either 5 36 extra accumulators or 6 38 missing solar panels.
Something to consider is that many people like replacing a solar panel with a radar in.
Or more precisely you need power consumption in w 30 kw solar panels.
You need 17 solar panels for each steam engine running at max capacity.
Plop a sub station down and fill it with solar pannels.
During daylight hours every panel provides the maximum power level 60kw.
So i felt like designing a solar layout because i d seen some talk about it recently.