Accumulator To Solar Panel Ratio

The ratio doesn t matter nearly as much as people seem to think it does.

Accumulator to solar panel ratio.

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. If your batteries can t fully charge during the day build more solar. Your factory needs an average p power. Solar panels are producing 100 nominal power 50 of the day.

So for 2 1mw this works out to 50 solar panels and 42 accumulators exactly. The amount of solar panels and accumulators you need is more. Reverse operation ratio from decimal needs multiplication and reduction by the largest common divisor. Then when both of those are met build some more.

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. We could do that the other way around. Alternatively this works out to a ratio of 25 solar panels to 21 accumulators. Anyway here s the source.

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. If they don t last the night build more batteries. The ratio 100 solar panels to 84 accumulators is optimized for solar panels first than for accumulators. We could do that the other way around.

500 21 p mw solar panels 20 p mw accumulators these are the numbers i use. Just divide if you need a decimal. When accumulator and solar tech is first obtained i establish the ratio on a blueprint. Now you have enough for a while.

Every ratio from almost 0 to infinite is valid as long as you have enough panels acc. We would need the fewest accumulators if we would just draw power from them if solar panels would produce no power at all.