This so sums up factorio perfectionism and practicalism.
Factorio efficient solar panel layout.
When you fill in this 22x18 area with panels and accumulators it looks like this.
Does anybody have images or links to efficient layouts for automating essential things.
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.
Just add as needed for each.
Generated power will increase decrease linearly during dusk and dawn and no power is produced at night.
Solar panels and accumulators optimal ratio.
Plop a sub station down and fill it with solar pannels.
This calculator is the result of a few years worth of fooling around off and on with performing calculations using factorio s recipe graph.
Myself and another very experienced factorio player are doing a series where we go over different designs of pretty much everything and show some good and bad ways to do it and improve them etc.
Your design isn t 100 space efficient and it doesn t use diagonally connected roboports.
Proper handling of oil products.
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.
This way solar panels can spill over two of the sides making each substation cover effectively a 22x18 area rather than 18x18.
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.
However high space efficiency is not the best indicator of a good design.
Even though this substation box design is more compact and has a higher space efficiency than this perf ratio 324 design the second design makes better use of both land and resources by being in the correct ratio.
This means one solar panel produces an average of 42 kw over one day and night cycle.
During daylight hours every panel provides the maximum power level 60kw.
I leave a space to walk between.
The reason such high space efficiency is possible is by only connecting the substations in lines not a grid.
However i sort of concede that it is possible however the alignment of solar panels in the manor you suggest would actually waste more space than gained.
I don t beleve in perfect ratios for solar.
Features of this calculator include.
Solar panels are an unlimited source of free energy that produce no pollution.
