Empyrion Using Solar Panels

Each capacitor can hold a finite amount of energy meaning that adding multiple to your base will increase the maximum amount of power that can be stored.

Empyrion using solar panels.

And 2 or even 4 small solar panels isn t enough. There are no infinite sources in empyrion other than the trusty survival constructor and water so not dying and spending most of your time not just mining is pretty much about using energy efficiently. Add non essential devices or those which use large amounts of power to a generator power group. In addition to storing solar power the capacitors can also burn fuel stored in tanks in the base making them a feasible alternative to generators.

Solar panel blocks are blocks used as an alternate source of power. If you read nothing else. Solar panels get power from the sun during the day and store their excess in the solar capacitor for when the panel isn t producing power. Panel placement panel size weather and time of day all affect the output of solar panels.

Get at least a dozen solar panels up and turn off things not in use and one should see batteries actually charging. So if your solar output is not more than your consumption your batteries will never charge. If there are generators present the base will draw power from the capacitor s before using the generator s. The capacitor solar is a base device used mainly to store and distribute power produced by solar panel blocks.

The best way to make use of solar energy is to set up device grouping in the control panel. So if your panels are enough you won t use any fuel. Generally love thy survival constructor. Let s talk about energy efficiency.

You can combine solar and generators and the solar gets used first. Next add a switch to power on off the items which you want to use generator power for. Solar is used first then generator power. It must be paired with the capacitor solar to store the energy absorbed by the blocks.