How do you think this solar panel / accumulator design?

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How do you think this solar panel / accumulator design?

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I'm sorry for it's not beautiful. but I believe it's really effecient.

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I've always been a fan of designs that use medium power poles. Here are a few notes:

The space efficiency of the left design is 96.6% and the right 95.4%. Power poles do not count.

It is both tileable and you make use of not requiring complete electric coverage (good). You may want to post a blueprint string so people may try it out for themselves.
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Try this modular layout with free aisles -
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For a group of 4 (as shown) - 75 panels to 63 accumulators - 25 to 21

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sckuzzle wrote:I've always been a fan of designs that use medium power poles. Here are a few notes:

The accumulator:solar panel ratio is too high in both cases (you want 0.82). Perhaps consider a larger design with a better ratio (hopefully that also is more space efficient?)

The space efficiency of the left design is 96.6% and the right 95.4%. Power poles do not count.

It is both tileable and you make use of not requiring complete electric coverage (good). You may want to post a blueprint string so people may try it out for themselves.
thx for comment :) I'll try more!

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DerivePi wrote:Try this modular layout with free aisles -
SPACCUM LAYOUT.jpg
For a group of 4 (as shown) - 75 panels to 63 accumulators - 25 to 21
That's creazy. lol thx.

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sckuzzle wrote:The accumulator:solar panel ratio is too high in both cases (you want 0.82). Perhaps consider a larger design with a better ratio (hopefully that also is more space efficient?)
Since everyone else seem to knows that 0.84 (21 accumulators and 25 panels like OP does) is the correct ratio maybe you should prove your numbers are right or show us a reference instead of just asserting that 0.82 is the new perfect ratio?

The wiki references this thread: viewtopic.php?f=5&t=5594

Having more panels means more power at dusk and dawn and more accumulators means a bigger buffer in case of harassment from natives and such. And if you want to fix your ratio afterwards just add more of the thing you lack.
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Qon wrote: Since everyone else seem to knows that 0.84 (21 accumulators and 25 panels like OP does) is the correct ratio maybe you should prove your numbers are right or show us a reference instead of just asserting that 0.82 is the new perfect ratio?
My mistake - I misremembered the ratio. Fixed!

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DerivePi wrote:For a group of 4 (as shown) - 75 panels to 63 accumulators - 25 to 21
As far as I can see it's 72 panels, not 75, to 61 accumulators.

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Hm, this got me thinking.. If you want solar tile design without substations, why not return to the basics?
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You can see it tiles quite nicely, no gaps:
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I know, the ratio is a bit off, but I prefer to err on side of solar panels anyway (and I like the original "star" design, it's just the nicest I ever saw); if you want to improve the ratio to more optimal one, you can always replace some sets of 2x2 solar panels with 3x3 batteries.

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I prefer large walkways between my solar panels and accumulators. Just this morning, a large biter attack force took advantage of one of those walkways to attack me while completely ignoring my solar panels / accumulators. Given a choice between utilizing all available space or leaving a nice walkway for the aliens... I like not running out of power. :)

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garath wrote:I prefer large walkways between my solar panels and accumulators. Just this morning, a large biter attack force took advantage of one of those walkways to attack me while completely ignoring my solar panels / accumulators. Given a choice between utilizing all available space or leaving a nice walkway for the aliens... I like not running out of power. :)
I've posted this on another topic too...

If the base for the design grid is the Roboport (I have seen designs based on the power poles), and assuming you want a small gap around the area, and that you want some light to see what you are doing... I came up with this simple solution:

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180 Solar
150 Acc (ratio 0.833, very close to the perfect 0.84)
1 roboport
4 lights
16 substations

add lights on the outside whenever you like because they don't block passage.
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