Factorio Solar Panels Not Working

Accumulators charges at daytime releases energy at night cause solar don t work at night last edited by dcyw.

Factorio solar panels not working.

I have batteries and solar panels in my power armor but the batteries don t seem to be charging. I m not sure what s causing this but does anyone have any solutions. May 19 2017 5 55am 5. Factorio new players game help topic details.

Solar panels and accumulators optimal ratio. 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. 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. Keep in mind the game uses kw or mw or gw seconds as defualt which is why i converted to them in the calculations.

A last method involves a circuit system that i haven t investigated closely combinators are used to manipulate a value every tic for a stable value but when a combinator s power runs low the combinator slows down and a combinator on an isolated grid one solar panel one accumulator and one small power pole can increment the value freely. 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. So that ideal ratio is not so ideal. Jun 18 2016 7 23pm batteries in power armor not working.

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. This means one solar panel produces an average of 42 kw over one day and night cycle. During daylight hours every panel provides the maximum power level 60kw. Instead it resaults in building far more solar panels then are needed.

May 19 2017 5 54am in the solar panels. 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. 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. Essentially you are saying only deliver power to these systems if i have enough to spare and even then don t exceed this delivery rate.