FACTORIO SOLAR PANEL HOW TO
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Meanwhile the filter inserters make sure I won’t take anything usefull back to the supply station.Īt the supply station the second cargo wagon is emptied out into active provider chests with filter inserters, too. The robots prioritize the yellow chests over the red ones, so they should empty out on their own, if you keep construct more arrays. I use filter inserters to put only stone and wood (and some fish) in a second cargo wagon, because sometimes I deconstrust an array or want to move it slightly to the left/right, because I misaligned it. This is what the yellow logistic chests are for. If you construct over trees or stone, the bots will demolish these, but they’ll need somewhere to put all of it.

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The trainstation is from before the update so there’s some room for improvement!) Since the update, there are new “anything” and “everything” circuit conditions, so I could probably hook the chests up directly and tell the train to go if. (Note: I only just realized, this is actually more complicated then it has to be. Meaning as soon as any of the items run out, it will go re-supply on it’s own! But all the decider combinators are hooked up to the trainstation and the train is set to go back to it’s supply station if. At some point the chest will run out as well.

So, the robots take what they need from the chests, when the numbers drop below the limit, the inserters will draw from the train until it is empty. Each chest is in turn connected to a decider combinator asking if the respective item is zero. The trainstation at the solar building outpost has filter stack inserters putting the various items in a single dedicated provider chest, limited with circuit conditions to appropiate amounts. Otherwise you will have robots trying to cross huge distances and taking items from far, far away chests and it will take forever! A hundred or so bots will be plenty, because even if they take their time, it’s supposed to work unsupervised and next time you take a look they will inevitably be done! The only thing you have to bring with you when you first build the base are some robots, because the idea is to NOT connect the solar outpost’s robo network to your “main” network. Now for the train stations itself: near my main bus I have a trainstation with requester chests, putting all the neccessary items into a cargo train: solar panels, accumulators, substations, robo ports and some radar stations (You should occasionally put these down to reveal more of the map, allowing you to keep constructing more arrays from “orbit”, i.e. And it also has a roboport in the middle of it, which is still within construction range of adjacent arrays, so you can automatically construct more blueprint copies! This array is a very clever layout ( not by me!) with two main advantages: it’s close to the “perfect ratio” of 21:25 (meaning you have as many solar panels as needed to charge all the accumulators). This trapezoid has height P’ and sides t1 and t1+ 2 * t3.One of my trainstations in my current save is a station dedicated to building a solar outpost.įirst of all, this is the solar array I use: The energy produced during a day by the solar panel is the sum of the power outputed on each game tick and can be computed as the area of the trapezoid described by the solar panel power curve, represented in red below.

FACTORIO SOLAR PANEL HOW TO

How to calculate the energy produced by a solar panel? Remember that the so-called “perfect” ratio actually means “just enough accumulators to go through the night without brownouts assuming perfectly flat demand” – which it won’t be… Re: Solar farm with perfect ratio. What does a solar farm with a perfect ratio mean? Win the game without building any solar panels.

Produce more than 10 GJ per hour using only solar panels. How much GJ can you produce with only solar panels? It takes 23.8 solar panels to operate 1 MW of factory and charge 20 accumulators to sustain that 1 MW through the night. How many solar panels does it take to run a factory?Ī 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. During sunset, the light level decreases linearly from fully light to fully dark. Sparks are emitted from the machine while on and electricity may flow between the copper cables attached to it, in either direction.Īn in-game day lasts 25000 ticks or 416.66~ in-game seconds. The power switch has two sides on which copper cables may be attached.

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