Factorio Solar Panels Not Working

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.

Factorio solar panels not working.

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. May 19 2017 5 54am in the solar panels. 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. Solar panels and accumulators optimal ratio.

Keep in mind the game uses kw or mw or gw seconds as defualt which is why i converted to them in the calculations. Solar panels are an unlimited source of free energy that produce no pollution. 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. I have batteries and solar panels in my power armor but the batteries don t seem to be charging.

Factorio new players game help topic details. May 19 2017 5 55am 5. I m not sure what s causing this but does anyone have any solutions. Instead it resaults in building far more solar panels then are needed.

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. Generated power will increase decrease linearly during dusk and dawn and no power is produced at night. Following that ideal ratio i would need 13 750 solar panels for my 11k accumulators but the 9 1k solar panels puts out 547mw while my factory only uses 350mw and they can fully charge the accumulators in 3 4 of the daytime. Accumulators charges at daytime releases energy at night cause solar don t work at night last edited by dcyw.

You need more power overall if you are trying to consume more power than you are producing then you can t charge the. This means one solar panel produces an average of 42 kw over one day and night cycle. So that ideal ratio is not so ideal. Jun 18 2016 7 23pm batteries in power armor not working.