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.
Accumulators to solar panels.
Solar panels and accumulators optimal ratio.
Heating a liter of water takes some time.
I tried it out in sandbox mode with krastorio 2 and it seems correct.
A solar accumulator is a tank where the heat energy that has been captured during the day is stored.
In autonomous electricity supply installations it is necessary to store the energy captured during the hours of solar radiation in order to be able to cover the supply during the hours when there is no daily cycle and seasonal cycle.
Now connectible to the circuit network.
Therefore it is necessary to have an accumulator to store the greatest amount of hot water for when it is needed for example at night hot sanitary water may be.
The amount of solar panels and accumulators you need is more.
Electric accumulators have a very important and fundamental function in the good operation and duration of a photovoltaic solar.
If they don t last the night build more batteries.
Megapack and powerpack massive energy storage.
To sustain same 100 mw factory you d need 100 m 60 k 1 667 solar panels.
Reduced collision box of big electric pole to allow squeezing between it and an accumulator.
It means that if you have 1000 solar panels and 1 million accumulators the accumulators would all eventually fill up.
If you have 0 84 ratio power setup that is stable never out of power it means there is at least a tiny bit excess.
If however it wouldn t fill up then you have too few solar panels to support even the 0 84.
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Lastly there has to be a surplus of solar power to recharge those accumulators during day.
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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.
4 000 accumulators would need 4 000 5 20 000 additional solar panels to charge at full 300 kw speed but luckily we have 200 full daylight seconds to recharge so you ll do.
In the field of photovoltaic energy the equivalent of an accumulator would be a battery.
Now you have enough for a while.
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Then when both of those are met build some more.