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.
Solar panels to factorio.
3 heat storages based on molten salt technology.
Generated power will increase decrease linearly during dusk and dawn and no power is produced at night.
3 new basic heat exchangers for mid game not intended for nuclear power use a cheaper thermal conduit for early game.
During daylight hours every panel provides the maximum power level 60kw.
Now you have enough for a while.
Based on advanced electric mod but toned down.
Then we ceil that as we have to have an integer for our solar panel count and we get 47 solar panels producing 2820 kw seconds or 10 152 gw hours.
Portable solar panels are the basic power generating units for modular armor and the spidertron they provide only a small amount of power and only during the daytime.
M p o.
N e acc c.
Two more tiers of solar panels and accumulators.
4 thermal solar panels that produce heat instead of energy.
The amount of solar panels and accumulators you need is 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.
1 salt evaporation pond to create salt for heat storages.
Solar panels and accumulators optimal ratio.
The ratio doesn t matter nearly as much as people seem to think it does.
N m e acc p o c t1 t3 t2 t3 t1 t3 t t o c we can get the values from the wiki.
Then when both of those are met build some more.
You need about 0 85 as many accumulators as solar panels for a pure solar setup.
Keep in mind the game uses kw or mw or gw seconds as defualt which is why i converted to them in the calculations.
0 15 0 18 downloaded.
3 new steam turbines for mid game.
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.
Redid graphics and technology structure and costs.
This means one solar panel produces an average of 42 kw over one day and night cycle.
They can be computed from the capacity c of one accumulator and the power output o of one solar panel.
If your batteries can t fully charge during the day build more solar.
Solar panels are an unlimited source of free energy that produce no pollution.
First tier is 5x power second tier 5x the first.