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.
Solar panel to accumulator ratio.
And each cycle the accumulator charge goes from 0 to 100 and back to 0.
So for 2 1mw this works out to 50 solar panels and 42 accumulators exactly.
Entire timespan that solar panels are not producing 100 energy will be.
Solar panels are producing 100 nominal power 50 of the day.
Alternatively this works out to a ratio of 25 solar panels to 21 accumulators.
In general this is a technique which works well when you ve just researched accumulators and solar panels but don t have enough resources to build big solar farms and accumulator farms yet.
If your power draw is constant then the optimal ratio is 25 solar panels to 21 accumulators.
20 regular solar panels or 8 advanced solar panels combined with 14 20 0 7 accumulators gave a stable 1 4mw for 35 sentinels 35 20kw 1 4mw.
I had found that a ratio of 1 2 to 1 5 accumulators per solar panel worked out perfectly fine.
The amount of solar panels and accumulators you need is more.
Now connectible to the circuit network.
If there is variance than you need to know what the greatest possible drain over the timespan from beginning of dusk to end of dawn is i e.
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.
If they don t last the night build more batteries.
I tried it out in sandbox mode with krastorio 2 and it seems correct.
If your batteries can t fully charge during the day build more solar.
Notes 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.
Reduced collision box of big electric pole to allow squeezing between it and an accumulator.
The ratio doesn t matter nearly as much as people seem to think it does.
It takes 23 8 solar panels to operate 1 mw of factory and charge 20 accumulators to sustain that 1 mw through the night.