Solar Calculator


Now with support for Space Exploration again! Adds a solar power calculator that can calculate how much power your solar panels provide on average. Or calculate how many panels and accumulators you need to provide the desired power. Supports modded panels and accumulators, quality and DLC planets.

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20 days ago
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b [NOT A BUG]Solar power generation equipment not detected.

25 days ago

I used the PY mod, which contains solar power generators MK1, MK2, MK3, and MK4. However, only MK1 and MK4 are listed in the filter, and the filter also fails to detect the wind turbines.

25 days ago

The reason is, MK2 and MK3 panels are not simple solar panels in the game's engine. They are more complex entities with internal energy buffers and controlled by scripts, not the engine itself. My mod only detects solar panels that are solar panels in the engine, because only for them I can be sure about their behavior. Even if I assume MK2 and MK3 would behave like normal solar panels, that might not be true for other energy entities from other mods that can do god knows what. The best I can do is to manually handle these MK2 and MK3 of the PY mod. I don't know if I will do it, for now you can just simulate those MK2 and MK3 panels with panels of lesser tiers. MK2 produces 21MW. MK1 produces 1.5MW, that means one MK2 is worth 14 MK1s. Simply find how many MK1s you need and divide by 14.

Wind turbines, I never said I will support them, unlike panels there's no day-night cycle for them, and day-night cycle is the core of the math my mod does. Also, every mod does wind turbines differently.
I advise you simply find how many energy wind turbines produce. Let's say 50MW. And you want 100MW total and want to cover the missing 50MW with solar. With my mod you can calc how many solar panels and accumulators you do need to provide 50MW on average. That's it.

Also, I see there's an anti-solar panel in PY mod, it uses a relatively new feature of the engine that wasn't present a year ago, it has inverted power production(100% at night, 0% at day), to support it, I will need to rewrite my math entirely. I'm not sure I'm in the mood for this.

22 days ago

got it,thanks

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