Factorio Best Solar Panel Layout

For each 5 solar panels you need 3 accumulators.

Factorio best solar panel layout.

The ideal ratio is 0 84 accumulators panel. Subreddit for the game factorio made by wube software. Solar panels and accumulators optimal ratio. Keep in mind that these numbers are approximate you may want to have a buffer for laser turrets if nothing else.

This layout has 170 accumulators and 196 panels. I don t beleve in perfect ratios for solar. You need 17 solar panels for each steam engine running at max capacity. Solar panels are an unlimited source of free energy that produce no pollution.

Original poster 1 point 2 years ago. I leave a space to walk between. 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. 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.

Or more precisely you need power consumption in w 30 kw solar panels. Plop a sub station down and fill it with solar pannels. This is a 25 21 0 84 ratio solar panel accumulator layout that i came up with and i didn t see it posted anywhere so i wanted to share it with the community. Though in all honesty you probably aren t ready for solar panels yet if the cost bothers you.

As for which to actually pick i d say it s up to your preference cilya s design with accumulators instead of a roboport is the only one with perfect 0 86 ratio among popular designs used by factorio players. There are either 5 36 extra accumulators or 6 38 missing solar panels. I took to my sandbox editor and threw together a basic design checked it for ratios and found it a perfect 84 accumulators and 100 solar panels. This means one solar panel produces an average of 42 kw over one day and night cycle.

Overall this design has a continuous power rating excluding roboport drain of 8 232mw. So i felt like designing a solar layout because i d seen some talk about it recently. Something to consider is that many people like replacing a solar panel with a radar in. Generated power will increase decrease linearly during dusk and dawn and no power is produced at night.