#Factorio solar panel full

It is now known that the difference is so small that further exploration of this topic with regards to better beacon sharing is not worthwhile. It was initally unknown whether the difference between power generation methods was of great enough magnitude to warrant further testing. ods format in the raw-data folder as usual. This design is scaled to roughly 60GW of power consumed, which is approximately the power level present in /u/schaev's base.Īs shown by the data, loading all those additional solar panels does cause a big hit to the time it takes for the map to load (and the time autosaves take, etc.), but while the map is running, there is no signifigant difference between having a bunch of solar or using a electric energy interface. The other will then clone a solar power blueprint, to match the required demand. One of these designs will use the electric energy interface. For our test we will take an arbitrary design, and clone it an arbitrary number of times. With all that out of the way we can focus on our test. By extrapolating the RAM numbers, we see that solar and accumulator are per entity cheaper than the average. Incredibly, this means that in terms of RAM consumed, solar takes more than all other entities in the map.īy using commands to read the exact number of entities, we find that there are 1,754,171 solar panels, 1,490,303 accumulators, and 578,210 entities that are player owned but not solar or accumulator.

The variance is in the same small window as our map with solar. Upon loading in this solar removed save, we measure 1.89GB of RAM used. We also shift over the research to worker-robot-speed so we don't end up with any test running out of research.įor key, ent in pairs(_entities_filtered()Īfter this, we once again save and exit to the main menu to do our RAM consumption measurement.

#Factorio solar panel full

Simply resaving in full vanilla gets rid of the auto-research dependency. We need to do some cleaning on the save to ensure our readings are correct. The most UPS efficient base I know of is /u/schaev's base. To have those entities and map chunks loaded should cost a decent chunk of memory though.įirst we should gauge what an approprate amount of panels to test should be. Solar panels and accumulators at the same charge effectively function as one CPU calculation, O(1). The reason there could be a theoretical cost to solar is not due to the expected CPU time, but rather due to the memory cost of the increase map size and entity number. That is, the effect caused by using more or less beacon sharing, while factoring in the power generation cost. If neccessary part 2 of this test will explore the relative magnitude effect in practice between differing designs. For part 1 of this test we will look at the relative performance between the electric-energy-interface and the solar based design. There are 3 possible options that can be used to generate power, the electric-energy-interface, solar panels and accumulators, and nuclear power. This does not impact performance in any appreciable way. Having solar does consume a good chunk of RAM. If you don't care your base will happily live on one solar panel per accumulator.Test-000006 : Does solar have a negative UPS impact due to the additional RAM consumption? Factorio Version 0.16.51 The TLDR The numbers are for people that like numbers. The more fluctuation you expect in your base the further you will be from 0.84 accum per solar as you move toward 0.9 accum per solar or a 1:1 ratio. If roboports on 0.13 use 5MW on idle that's equal to 83 solar panels! Suddenly 30% of your solar build is needed to power the roboport in the middle?!Īll you really need to know is that if your power usage is constant and lasers never fired, 0.84 accumulators per solar panel means the accumulators will be fully depleted at sunrise. Using roboports to build the solar far is very convenient but if roboports on 0.12 use 2MW on idle that's equal to 33 solar panels. So I combined the two into 240 Solar:228 Accumulator This is design is too excessive on the accumulators. Four of your design with an emphasis on accumulators.ĥ6 Solar:66 Accumulator Similar to /u/AzeTheGreat 's suggestion. It has no wasted space, although you can take that build that has a few too many solar panels (meaning your power capacity during the day exceeds your power capacity during the night) and make a few of these. That design is good as a transition away from steam.