Solar panels (overall efficiency)

    Hi guys


    I have been playing IC2 now for a while and also reading this forum for almost as long.


    I sometimes notice that a lot of people think the average production of a solar panel, when you include night times is 0.5EU/t. Assuming ( I guess) that day and night is of equal length.


    This has clashed with the number given in the wiki for solar panels for quite some time. 13050EU/day (13056 in my test), if you do the maths that breaks down to 13050/20= 652.5seconds, and then 652.5/60= 10.875 minutes, or 10 minutes and 52.5 seconds.


    This is slightly longer than the 10min for half a day and therefore increasing the efficiency slightly to 13050/24000 (ticks they generate power/ticks in a full day)=0.54375


    I know .04 isn't much of an efficiency gain from what is said, but I thought it worth looking into. This changes the setup for systems where people want to run say 32EU/t for the full day, you don't quite need 64 (59 I think) solar panels for the power to continue throughout the night (providing you have enough EU storage).

    Hell, prove me wrong, Happy to be so 99% of the time, then I can learn stuff :)

    Night and day actually aren't equal length. Including dusk and dawn, day is 13 minutes long. Light levels remain sufficient to power solars for some fraction of that 3 minutes.

    Quote from Kuudere

    Night and day actually aren't equal length. Including dusk and dawn, day is 13 minutes long. Light levels remain sufficient to power solars for some fraction of that 3 minutes.


    That's interesting, and good to know. Thanks you for that info. :)