Such as the wiki reddit and factorio discord from which this is all based on.
Factorio solar panel rates.
3 new basic heat exchangers for mid game not intended for nuclear power use a cheaper thermal conduit for early game.
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.
Features of this calculator include.
Factorio is a game in which you build and maintain factories.
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.
Solar panels and accumulators optimal ratio.
Accumulator ratio 70 solar panel power accumulator energy for example using vanilla values.
50 extra capacity or use 80 of accu storage and have 20 as buffer.
You may find an essay on the subject which outlines the techniques used in this calculator here.
Proper handling of oil products.
3 new steam turbines for mid game.
When just looking at residential solar panels the top wattage panel available is the sunpower a series ac module the top panel in the a series line boasts a wattage of 425 watts.
This calculator is the result of a few years worth of fooling around off and on with performing calculations using factorio s recipe graph.
The top panel in the e series comes out at a whopping 435 watts.
Solar panel accumulator ratios math i was looking for a good ratio for solar panels and accumulators and what i wanted was a number i could use to estimate the number of panels and accus required to give me say.
1 salt evaporation pond to create salt for heat storages.
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.
4 thermal solar panels that produce heat instead of energy.
This is a compendium of the most common factorio facts as of v1 0 release.
70 60 000 5 000 000 0 84 if you are a nerd who likes units to match the constant is 70 seconds.
3 heat storages based on molten salt technology.
How many solar panels does it take to charge an accumulator in 1 day.
A huge thanks to to all the contributors on github as well as the community who made the previous cheat sheets and other resources.
I am new to factorio.
The night time set would have the accumulators.