Portable solar panel

Portable solar panel

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Recipe
10 + 2 + 1 + 5 → 1
Total raw
57.75 + 37.5 + 19 + 4 + 10
Stack size	20
Dimensions	1×1
Placed in
Power output	30kW 39kW 48kW 57kW 75kW electric
Prototype type	solar-panel-equipment
Internal name	solar-panel-equipment
Required technologies
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Portable solar panels are the basic power generating units for modular armor and the spidertron, and provide up to 30kW of power during the daytime.

Portable solar panels exhibit the same daylight-to-power curve as the solar panel entity, and therefore the average output of one portable solar panel is 21kW, or 70% of its peak output. The output is affected by quality and the wearer's location (i.e. which planet they're on/orbiting).

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.

Portable solar panels are 1×1 in size and are therefore primarily used in modular armor, which has a 5×5 grid that cannot usefully hold a much more powerful 4×4 portable fission reactor or portable fusion reactor. (It could store one, but there would be no room for anything to use the power.)

The more advanced armors should almost always use portable fusion reactors instead.

History

• 0.17.0:
  • Portable solar panels have Modular armor as pre-requisite.
  • Portable solar panel power output changed from 10kW to 30kW, recipe tweaked to require less Solar panels but more Advanced circuits.

• 0.13.0:
  • Power production increased by a factor of 10.

• 0.12.0:
  • Power production increased by a factor of 100.

• 0.7.0:
  • Introduced

See also

• Modular armor
• Portable fusion reactor