Then when both of those are met build some more.
Factorio solar panel to accumulator ratio.
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.
While the sun is out your solar panels have to output q power where q p.
These are the numbers i use.
We could do that the other way around.
The ratio 100 solar panels to 84 accumulators is optimized for solar panels first than for accumulators.
When accumulator and solar tech is first obtained i establish the ratio on a blueprint.
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.
It takes 23 8 solar panels to operate 1 mw of factory and charge 20 accumulators to sustain that 1 mw through the night.
Solar panels and accumulators optimal ratio.
So the op post is 100 accurate.
If they don t last the night build more batteries.
8571 3 7 kw solar panels 600 mj capacity of accumulators so the result is we need 25 21 1 190476 period 6 more solar panels than accumulators.
For me it is 1 1 mainly because of the spatial design easily tile able and low supply for the slow conbots out of the mk1 personal roboport not because of any other reason.
I had found that a ratio of 1 2 to 1 5 accumulators per solar panel worked out perfectly fine.
The ratio doesn t matter nearly as much as people seem to think it does.
Solar panels are producing 0 nominal power 10 of the day.
Dusk dawn so on average they produce 70 of nominal power.
The amount of solar panels and accumulators you need is more.
Alternatively this works out to a ratio of 25 solar panels to 21 accumulators level 2.
If your batteries can t fully charge during the day build more solar.
We would need the fewest accumulators if we would just draw power from them if solar panels would produce no power at all.
Provide power p recharge accumulators.
Or we can say we need 25 solar panels per 21 accumulators.
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.
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.
Now you have enough for a while.
500 21 p mw solar panels 20 p mw accumulators.