TL;DR: as some panels are not fully covered with substations I was able to save some space and reach 98.56% area coverage w/full logistic. Also I've saved some space with the checked logistic pattern -> slower build time for robots
This is the small 330MW / useful coverage 98.56%/300MW. In the following post see the 3.3GW / useful coverage 98.6141% version.
Blueprint attached as TXT as exceeded the char limit here.
My priorities were:
- tileable
- perfect ratio: 6065 Accs / 7160 Solar Panels = 0.8470 ratio (0.84672 is perfect)
- logistic coverage: 100%: robots must be able to build it w/o construction train or spidetron
- no empty space
- useful area coverage maximized: 98.56%: 253 subsations vs the 277.7 needed to fully cover this area (averaged)
- rectangle shape as possible for easy tiling w/o grid lock: 900x100, only +/- 1 tile horizontally
- self contained electric and logistic coverage
- normal quality for now
Not relevant for me:
- walk / drive through
- trains: just avoid the substations
- radar coverage - Roboports now have 2 tiles of radar range
- rare etc quality items
Further possible improvements:
- substations can be even further (4 tile gap vs current 2 tile gap) - see the screenshots below. I don't have a fully covering pattern idea for this...
- a better looking pattern would be cool
- quaility: you can exchange (almost) any 2x2 solar panel blocks to 3x3 accumlator blocks and vice versa to change the ratio. There are unpowered full rows of 2 tiles between the subtation rows where it won't work, also on the left side there are some other dead spots for accumlators (panels are OK)
- I had a version where extra substations added vertically to the left or right edge outside the 900x100 area saving the mess on the left, a tiny area% can be gained that way. For me it does not worth the hassle
- wanted a nice 1GW version, but at least in this pattern I cannot get a rectangle 1GW version ( smallest cell is 450x100 and 150MW, this is a x2 version to have roboports also tileable nicely)
Power:
- In theory Net 300.66MW - as 18 roborts using 0.9MW of the 7160*0.060*70%= 301.56MW power
- tested w/625 beacons in editor, see screenshot below, more 299MW-ish...
- B3lt3r-SolarTileRobo-299MW.png (17.02 KiB) Viewed 864 times
- Solar_panel/Optimal_Ratios
Forum references:
- Day-Night cycle times in Space Age and Solar Power
- Solar Power in Space Age - Definitive Ratios for Planets, Qualities and Throughput-Limits
- Just another solar farm
- Compact 88 MW Solar Field + Accumulators
The current idea:
- B3lt3r-SolarTile-CurrentIdea.png (116.53 KiB) Viewed 860 times
Future idea (so far I did not have a pattern for this setup):
- B3lt3r-SolarTile-FutureIdea.png (109.89 KiB) Viewed 859 times
That's a lot of roboborts in this scale! I will update the BP, will boost the % a bit.