Solar Panel Circuit Network

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Solar Panel Circuit Network

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Simple idea, making Solar Panels Connectable to a Circuit network.
it Outputs a 100 at the Middle of the Day, and a 0 in the Middle of the Night

i came to that idea while playing around, and being like "i need to save Power, just gonna Turn off parts Large Energy Consuming of the Factory during Night."
the only other way i was able to do a sort of Daylight Senor was via Accumulators. which was quite Inefficent and Caused this when my Solar Power Kicked it/out (every day/night).
and the Lights were giving me a slight Headache too... because of the Flashing.
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but even if there is a Better way to do this without the Daylight Sensor... Solar... thingy, just having that might be useful too. (no idea tho, i'm not that deep in the Circuit Network stuff.)

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I'm not sure, if that is really useful.

Cause there is an already existing and more clever solution:
The accumulator provides his charge level as signal A
The accumulator provides his charge level as signal A
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well, i used that System you posted, and it makes every go Crazy when my Solar Turns on/off.
like on the pic i had in the first post.
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Then you have not enough accumulators?
I don't know and this is not the game-help board. :)
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welp, oops.
gonan try to Improve the System or find Existing and Working ones.
but a Day/Night Sensor would be nice tho.

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Ssilk recommended a Timer Combinator sort of thing which would be better to have a "time of day" setting on.
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Day night sensor:
viewtopic.php?f=208&t=13778 Night switch for steam engines based on combinators
viewtopic.php?f=208&t=29302 Actually reliable solar.
and so on, and so on.

I recommend reading viewforum.php?f=208
https://wiki.factorio.com/Accumulator
https://wiki.factorio.com/Power_production

The technique already exists, you just need to build it! :)

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