solar panel set up

[Maurice]

how do i set it up to where there is enough power during the night

[Nickjet45]

Depends on how much power you’re using

But to store excess power you need accumulators

[Nickjet45]

You can require hundreds to thousands of them

For instance I have around 5000 solar panels and like 1-2k accumulators

[Maurice]

thats alot i ony have like 25 panels and 20 accumulators

[Maurice]

i need alot more

[Nickjet45]

Well if your early game it should be fine but as you go late gene you need to rapidly expand

[Khan Boyzitbig of Mercia]

25 panels is not much at all. 1500kw, that is less than 2 steam engines.

[Σnvy]

Go nuclear and fill your base with accumulators.
Also, check this https://wiki.factorio.com/Power_production
and this https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=5594

[Setokaiva]

For a medium-sized factory, I get by on ~1200 solar panels, and enough accumulators to hold over 4 gigajoules of juice. Plenty of steam engines as backups, of course. As far as I'm concerned, the best way to handle it is by using Substations (need blue science packs to unlock), which can cover solar panels stretched in a box 3 long in every direction, with the station at the center. Use big power poles around the edges to connect the substations properly. I manage enormous fields of solar panels and accumulators like this, but it takes a LOT of space.

[piccolo255]

According to the Wiki[wiki.factorio.com] (also linked above by Envy), you need 21 accumulators for every 25 solar panels. This means, if you can power your base with 25 solar panels during the day, you are going to need 21 accumulators to get you through the night, assuming similar power usage. (For 50 panels, you need 42 accumulators, etc.)

I always put some extra accumulators to guard agains sudden power spikes.

[Delle(DK)]

be aware once you get laser defence towers then they will very fast drain your accumulators
( batterys ) and then you might need even more accumulators during the night time if you only use solar. ;-)

Personaly i think of solar as being good, but only in a combination with other power sources such as the steam engine.. When the solar panels are on the battery charges, and the steam engines use less coal making the coal last longer.
But as soon as i can i will research nuclear power and drones.... drones becourse i can build drone towers and construction drones that can repair my defence turrets, and nuclear since it can make like 40gw power pr. 1 core 4 heaters and 7 cooling towers, and if you build the nuclear core next to other nuclear cores you get a boost bonus of 100- 200% i think.

The good think about solar once they are build, then they always work when the sun shines, and thechnical speaking once build, they can last the entire game without neeting resupply or anything... But for really big bases I cant imagine having only solar but a mix of more power sources ;-) els the solar system will be gigantic .. but hey its factorio GO BIG ;-)

[impetus_maximus]

do buy into the 'perfect ratio' hype. add solar, or accumilators as needed.

[Eternal]

Originally posted by Delle(DK):

be aware once you get laser defence towers then they will very fast drain your accumulators
( batterys ) and then you might need even more accumulators during the night time if you only use solar. ;-)

Personaly i think of solar as being good, but only in a combination with other power sources such as the steam engine.. When the solar panels are on the battery charges, and the steam engines use less coal making the coal last longer.
But as soon as i can i will research nuclear power and drones.... drones becourse i can build drone towers and construction drones that can repair my defence turrets, and nuclear since it can make like 40gw power pr. 1 core 4 heaters and 7 cooling towers, and if you build the nuclear core next to other nuclear cores you get a boost bonus of 100- 200% i think.

The good think about solar once they are build, then they always work when the sun shines, and thechnical speaking once build, they can last the entire game without neeting resupply or anything... But for really big bases I cant imagine having only solar but a mix of more power sources ;-) els the solar system will be gigantic .. but hey its factorio GO BIG ;-)

u wont get 40 gw fron a core 😀😀😀 i use my own design nothing special 22 cores in 2 rows, i get 3.5 gw per setup....


ab solars i made a bot area with approx 170 solars and 170 accum, something like this, i get now 2.4 TJ on bateries ... bateries much more than solars is ok if they can be charged over day.

[Number9Volcanos]

How do you unlock them and can you unlock them in the demo?

[Drizzt]

Originally posted by Number9Volcanos:

How do you unlock them and can you unlock them in the demo?

you unlock them through research (like all the other technologies)

they are part of the second tier of research (green science)

yes you can unlock them in the demo - on level 5 (the last level)

[Vyndicu]

This is a 5-year-old thread necro'd for a good reason.

Better to start a new thread.