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Factorio set solar panels to be used first.
Solar panels require research to unlock use way more resources to build produce significantly less power use significantly more room and require you to store power to keep the lights on at night.
This means you ll need over 850 panels and almost just as much capacitors to match a single offshore pumps worth of steam engine.
You can set up a circuit network with a power switch to basically have your steam engines turn on when the accumulators get low on power.
During daylight hours every panel provides the maximum power level 60kw.
Ok so basically i need a f ckton of solar panels and i need to make so much that the accumulators is stoeing energy ok another thing to do for project.
I was laying blueprints of 720 solar panels and 1 2k accumulators.
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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.
At first the factory shuts down at night.
Its maximum charge discharge rate is 300 kw.
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The accumulator stores a limited amount of energy when available production exceeds demand and releases it in the opposite case.
Pretty soon i have a few dozen solar panels and i can unplug my starter 10 14 1 steam setup.
Assemblers to build solar panels and accumulators a long conveyor or trains to carry them out to the construction area roboports and blueprints to lay them down.
A full steam engine setup on 1 offshore pipe is 40 engines.
The only real time spent is clearing a large enough area of nests and large boulders.
This means one solar panel produces an average of 42 kw over one day and night cycle.
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.
Cons requires a crap ton of space the amount of solar panels and capacitors required to match a steam engine is 21 panels and about 18 19 capacitors.
In my last game i had 120 solar panels before i got around to making it a 24 7 shop.
Once i get solar i set up a little fab.
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I just don t really see myself in a position where coal will be so rare that i want to dump all of the resources required to get a workable solar grid up and running.
Really didn t take much effort.
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Solar panels will only generate power during the day.
Generated power will increase decrease linearly during dusk and dawn and no power is produced at night.
Solar panels and accumulators optimal ratio.
It gives a little time for pollution to disperse.
The accumulator can store up to 5 mj of energy.
