Accumulator To Solar Panel Ratio

If your batteries can t fully charge during the day build more solar.

Accumulator to solar panel ratio.

When accumulator and solar tech is first obtained i establish the ratio on a blueprint. 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. 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.

The ratio 100 solar panels to 84 accumulators is optimized for solar panels first than for accumulators. 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. Anyway here s the source. Solar panels and accumulators optimal ratio 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.

Solar panels are producing 100 nominal power 50 of the day. 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. 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.

Now you have enough for a while. We could do that the other way around. Reverse operation ratio from decimal needs multiplication and reduction by the largest common divisor. 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.

Then when both of those are met build some more. We could do that the other way around. If they don t last the night build more batteries. We would need the fewest accumulators if we would just draw power from them if solar panels would produce no power at all.

Just divide if you need a decimal. So for 2 1mw this works out to 50 solar panels and 42 accumulators exactly.