Automated solar panel guide for noobies?

[Evil_Doc]

Hi, I was wondering if there was some easier way to set up solar automation, or if there's is a guide out there for an idiot/noob like me?

Assume I don't have an engineering degree and I don't know anything about logic circuits, or functions, and my math sucks.

The guides I've seen so far are all pretty complicated, for a layman like myself, and don't really explain what everything does or why. I mean, i could probably copy it exactly, and make a system, but that doesn't really teach me how to do it myself on my own. Also, if i screw something up somewhere, I wont know how to fix it

I hope they will introduce an 'advanced' solar panel that can track the sun automatically on its own. Maybe have it unlocked by research, and require an advanced printer with high end materials. That would be ideal! Heh

I think for now, I'll just set up a console that I'll use to manually adjust solar panels, until i learn how to automate, myself.

[Anwaan]

If you go to the unoffical wiki, there is a guide on solar panels. Towards the bottom is the smallest setup using 2 logic I/O, 1 memory and 1 math processor. (there's two examples, I use the more compact one.) I'm like you in that I had no idea what I was doing. I just copied everything from the picture with settings. Keep in mind there is one setting missing, and that's on the math unit. it needs set to divide. If you can copy what you see, you won't have a problem. Just turn the panels so they face the sun at 0 degrees and the controller will do the rest.

https://stationeers-wiki.com/Solar_Logic_Circuits_Guide

[hektor]

Also make sure your divide is correct or else your panels will lock and point somewhere rediculous.

[Evil_Doc]

Thanks! I'll check it out

[DocRabbit]

Make sure if you are going to use any single axis simple tracking solar, you stick with Mars or the Moon, as the other planets really have to use dual axis tracking to make solar viable at all.

[hektor]

On Europa you can just spam them and still do 1 axis if you don't want to mess with it.

[Rampant Rabbit]

I use the simple tracker from the wiki linked earlier. For me, the cabling kinda confused me a bit as it's sort of spaghetti logic wiring. But it works fine most of the time. Especially if you keep the logic separate from the power lines from the panels, because then it's easier to slap more panels in.. Which although inefficient, quantity overcomes inefficiency from the circuit.

It's also a handy introduction to logic & control.. So-

Logic Reader chip takes input from the Light Sensor
Batch Writer then sends the output to the panel(s), and it's input from the Math Unit
Math Unit takes the output from the Logic Reader, does math (Divide) using the parameter from the Memory chip

So that forms the basis for other automation work, ie read, process, write. So the same concept is a good start point for automating temperature in a greenhouse taking input from a thermometer and outputing to heaters/ACs etc.

[FarmerPalmer]

Basic solar automation, single axis
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2180950567

[rGlory]

I use IC10 automated, it is very simple and compact, though requires IC10 which is quite expensive, there is link to youtube video with instructions there as well - https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1982128377

[Orici Vintarion]

https://abload.de/image.php?img=solarfullstationeers31knb.png


https://abload.de/image.php?img=solarstationeersgykqy.png



both still work fine and after you have done this a few times dont even need those pictures anymore :P


the first one squeezes some xtra % but both are only good for the moon i mean they do work on every other planet but they only can follow 1 axis

[Rinderblock]

is the stationeers wiki dead? I cant get it to load on any browser

[Evil_Doc]

It's been offline for like a week now

[hektor]

It's a shame but it wasn't getting updated as much as it should. I wish RW would host something and contribute because there are still things that are a mystery to me.

[Evil_Doc]

I wish they had descriptions of what everything does/is used for, in the game station pedia

[hektor]

It looks like with todays update that may be a thing...

[Orici Vintarion]

Originally posted by Rinderblock:

is the stationeers wiki dead? I cant get it to load on any browser

yeah it seems so .. but the ingame Wiki is almost as good if not better since the last update