Solar Calculator


Adds a solar power calculator able to calculate how much energy your solar plants are providing on average right now. Or calculate how much panels and accumulators you need to provide desired power. Supports modded panels, accumulators, different surfaces(planets and orbits in Space Exploration)

Utilities
2 years ago
1.0 - 1.1
58.3K
Owner:
Kaktusbot
Source:
N/A
Homepage:
N/A
License:
MIT
Created:
3 years ago
Latest Version:
0.3.11 (2 years ago)
Factorio version:
1.0 - 1.1
Downloaded by:
58.3K users

How to use

  • You can select types of solar panels and accumulators you have and enter their number. Calculator will show you how much power they are producing at peak during day, how much accumulator capacity do you have and how much power you can produce on average during whole day. It will also show you red numbers in parenthesis if your average power production is limited by accumulators and by how much.
  • At the bottom you can enter your desired average power production and calculator will show you needed peak power production and needed accumulator capacity.
  • Buttons with arrows allow you to adjust your desired and actual numbers based on each other. For example, if you want to know how much accumulators do you need per 100 panels you can do this:
  • 1: Enter number of solar panels. 100 in this case.
  • 2: Pressing this button will set your desired peak power production to match peak power production of this 100 solar panels and calculate other desired numbers accordingly
  • 3: Now by pressing this button you adjust number of accumulators based on your desired accumulator capacity which gives you 84 accumulators. Like the famous 0.84 ratio.

  • Calculator supports modded solar panels and accumulators, lets you compose setups of different types of them if you want slowly transition to another tier of panels or accumulators.

  • Calculator supports different surfaces, their different day-night cycles and solar power multipliers. It even supports surfaces with frozen_daytime and calcs their real solar power multiplier counting if they are frozen at sunrise or sunset.
  • Calculator also can read your solar panels and accumulators setup directly from surface they exist on. But it can't differentiate between separate electric networks. And procedure of scanning surface can be really slow on big bases, so do it with caution.
  • From 0.2 version calculator supports saving and loading custom presets.