But it can't differentiate between separate electric networks. Calculator also can read your solar panels and accumulators setup directly from surface they exist on.It even supports surfaces with frozen_daytime and calcs their real solar power multiplier counting if they are frozen at sunrise or sunset. Calculator supports different surfaces, their different day-night cycles and solar power multipliers.Like the famous 0.84 ratio.Ĭalculator 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. 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 accordinglyģ: Now by pressing this button you adjust number of accumulators based on your desired accumulator capacity which gives you 84 accumulators.For example, if you want to know how much accumulators do you need per 100 panels you can do this: Buttons with arrows allow you to adjust your desired and actual numbers based on each other.At the bottom you can enter your desired average power production and calculator will show you needed peak power production and needed accumulator capacity.It will also show you red numbers in parenthesis if your average power production is limited by accumulators and by how much. 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. You can select types of solar panels and accumulators you have and enter their number.Note that this already takes into account the fact that in space there is a constant 50% brightness, so this calculated amount is actually 50% of what the game will show as maximum when checking the panel output, and the bonus will not be the same as the efficiency percentage shown in the universe explorer - this is different from what you see planetside where the bonus shown is actually the efficiency percentage minus a hundred. This constant output is calculated as usual by multiplying the nominal maximum output by the efficiency ratio (MaxPowerOutput * Efficiency / 100). In space there is no day/night cycle, so there is no need to calculate ratios or average outputs, as panels will have a constant output and won't need to supply power to accumulators for the night. Take the day/night cycle length and divide it by the efficiency. To generate 4.2 MW, Nauvis requires 100 solar panels and 84 accumulators, while Efficient requires 83.33 panels and 108.33 accumulators. Planet Efficient from the previous examples is actually slightly worse than Nauvis despite the higher efficiency. However, what if both characteristics are very different or very similar?Įfficiency at first might seem the most important trait, because with more power, the less items one needs, however if the day/night cycle is long enough, the accumulators might actually make things more expensive. Given the same efficiency or similar day/night cycle, it's easy to tell which planet is better for solar. Having 120% efficiency, our average output for a vanilla panel would be:ĪveragePanelOutput = 60 kW * 0.7 * 120 / 100 = 50.4 kW Comparing Planets The 0.7 constant is applied like in the vanilla game, as the equivalent time of a panel operating at average output is always 70% of a day cycle. The high efficiency make it so that we need a smaller number of panels to power the base, but the very long day/night cycle requires many more accumulators to store the charge necessary to last the night.Ĭalculating the Average Panel Output ĪveragePanelOutput = MaxPanelOutput * 0.7 * Efficiency / 100 So when on planet Efficient's surface, we'd have to place roughly 13 accumulators every 10 solar panels. If we want to know the ratio of vanilla accumulators per vanilla panels, we have: The planet Efficient has 120% solar efficiency and 9 minutes day/night cycle. R = 0.002016 * CycleDuration s * Efficiency / 100 Which, if using the vanilla panels and accumulators, can be further simplified into this: R = 0.168 * (MaxPanelOutput kW / AccumulatorCapacity kJ) * CycleDuration s * Efficiency / 100 Solar Power on Planet Surfaces Calculating the Accumulator/Panel Ratio
2.2 Calculating the Average Panel Output.2.1 Calculating the Accumulator/Panel Ratio.
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