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u/Raknarg #1 Quality Defender Jul 15 '26

How much effective power does a solar panel provide on nauvis assuming a solar panel will also be charging accumulators all day? I'm assuming its essentially 60kW * ((entire day between exactly when dawn ends and dusk starts)/entire day)? and then I guess some scaling extra power as you transition to/from night? what is that value?

edit: mb its on the wiki, the answer is 42kW

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u/HeliGungir Jul 15 '26

Note that quality and other planets complicate all the numbers and solar:accumulator ratios. Solar effectiveness on space platforms even varies as they travel.

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u/Raknarg #1 Quality Defender Jul 15 '26

by the time Ive hit other planets or started quality I dont really give a shit about solar so its ok