This article is about the battery intermediate product.
Battery portable solar panel factorio.
To my knowledge you will need some sort of power source inside your equipped armor.
The battery by itself isn t a power source just power storage.
Portable fusion reactors are essential items for power armor and power armor mk2 as running the many other modules in these armors would take far too many solar panels to be practical.
Note that while the solar panels are producing 70kw the battery can store 20mj or 20000kj.
Generated power will increase decrease linearly during dusk and dawn and no power is produced at night.
Solar panels and accumulators optimal ratio.
The battery is an intermediate product used in several key recipes including the utility science pack which is required for late game research and the flying robot frame which is required to build logistic and.
This means one solar panel produces an average of 42 kw over one day and night cycle.
Not sure if there are other options it s been a while since i played.
Portable solar panels are the basic power generating units for modular armor and the spidertron they provide only a small amount of power and only during the daytime.
If the batteries are also present in there they should get charged.
So you need either a portable solar panel or portable fusion reactor to charge the battery up before you can use it.
Wait a few minutes and something might show up on the display.
Portable solar panels can be used to slowly recharge energy shields out of combat but are nearly useless for personal laser defense or exoskeleton even with a large number of batteries.
The optimal ratio is 0 84 21 25 accumulators per solar panel and 23 8 solar panels per megawatt required by your factory this ratio accounts for solar panels needed to charge the accumulators this means that you need 1 428 mw of production of solar panels and 100mj of storage to provide 1 mw of power over one day night cycle.
Every second the solar panels would only be charging 0 35 of the battery.
During daylight hours every panel provides the maximum power level 60kw.
For the intermediate product see battery for the modular armor equipment see personal battery.
Ok i didn t realize i needed the modular armor in order to use personal equipment thanks for the info.
Portable fusion reactors are advanced power generating modules for modular armor and the spidertron they generate 750kw of power equivalent to 25 portable solar panels while taking up only a 4 4 grid in size.
This article is about the battery as technology.
Also i don t know how much energy that belt immunity costs.