Your solar panels have 2 functions.
Solar panel accumulator ratio factorio.
Night solar panels are producing 50 nominal power 40 of the day.
We could do that the other way around.
If connected to a circuit network an accumulator will output its level of charge as an integer from 0 to 100 to a specified signal.
If they don t last the night build more batteries.
If your batteries can t fully charge during the day build more solar.
The b accumulator b stores a limited amount of energy when available production exceeds demand and releases it in the opposite case.
Now you have enough for a while.
I had found that a ratio of 1 2 to 1 5 accumulators per solar panel worked out perfectly fine.
Solar is the ultimate in resource to power ratio.
The ratio 100 solar panels to 84 accumulators is optimized for solar panels first than for accumulators.
You see with solar there is some initial investment but after that power is simply free.
Then when both of those are met build some more.
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.
Every other power source requires a constant influx of resources to produce power.
Solar panels and accumulators optimal ratio.
Solar panels are producing 0 nominal power 10 of the day.
It takes 23 8 solar panels to operate 1 mw of factory and charge 20 accumulators to sustain that 1 mw through the night.
The amount of solar panels and accumulators you need is more.
The accumulator can store up to 5 mj of energy.
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.
The ratio doesn t matter nearly as much as people seem to think it does.
Just divide if you need a decimal.
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.
Its maximum charge discharge rate is 300 kw.
Anyway here s the source.
Provide power p recharge accumulators.
In the perfect ratio it gives you 42kw per solar cell for 0 resources amortized over time.
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.
Dusk dawn so on average they produce 70 of nominal power.
While the sun is out your solar panels have to output q power where q p.