Solar Panel Setup Factorio

Its not exact and it changes as i plop down more every so often.

Solar panel setup factorio.

Looks like 912 accumulators to 16 solar panels which is a 0 560 75 ratio the optimal ratio is 0 84 thus a more ideal setup would be 21 accumulators to 25 solar panels. Solar panels are an unlimited source of free energy that produce no pollution. My base will burn through about half of my accumulator charge when it is producing at a moderate clip. Portable solar panels are the basic power generating units for modular armor and the spidertron they provide only a small amount of power and only during the daytime.

Portable solar panels can be used to slowly recharge energy shields out of combat but are nearly useless for personal laser defense or exoskeleton even with a large number of batteries. 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. You can always sacrifice a bit of the optimal ratio for a cleaner design but you should stay in the area of 0 8 0 9. This means one solar panel produces an average of 42 kw over one day and night cycle.

My setup uses about 75 solar panels for every accumulator. Generated power will increase decrease linearly during dusk and dawn and no power is produced at night. This tutorial covers solar panel arrangements to use at various stages of the game including the building of the massive ratio perfect array from this foru. Currently i have 38000 solar panels 31000 accumulators and 1700 steam engines.

I would like to set up a set of solar panels for use in the daytime then another set that would be used at night. During daylight hours every panel provides the maximum power level 60kw. I am new to factorio.