Advanced Alternative Sources
By installing the Advanced Solar Panels mod, you will have the opportunity to use advanced energy generators in minecraft. Such an improved panel will not only provide more energy, but also generate it on cloudy days and at night. In addition, such equipment will have an increased output voltage and increased internal capacitance. Apart from the improved battery, there are other alternative power generators such as the hybrid panel and the super panel. They allow the use of uranium as additional energy. You can learn the recipes for making them by reading the crafting wiki. The only drawback of such systems is their higher price.
CompactSolars Supplement
If none of the improved panels suits you, you can take the help of the CompactSolars add-on, which adds a few more new features. Their trick is that they take up much less space in Minecraft (maximum - 512 times). The creation of this add-on was a forced measure, designed to combat lags - the huge fields of generators extremely loaded the Minecraft server. The picture shows crafting.
Energy in IndustrialCraft 2 plays an important role, without it it will be impossible to use many of the mechanisms added in this modification. Generators (windmill, geothermal generator, water mill, etc.) are used to extract energy, it is also possible to extract energy using solar panels. Industrialcraft 2 solar panel
- a kind of energy source. In reality, it recycles sunlight, creating electrons from it. In the game, in fact, the same possibility is implemented, i.e. electricity appears in the wires only when the sun is shining, so at night there will be little sense from the solar panel.
So, let's go directly to the crafting of this device.
As you can see from the picture, to craft this mechanism, you will need the following - coal dust (3 pieces), an electrical circuit (2 pieces), glass (3 pieces) and a generator. Let's analyze the crafting of each part separately in order to calculate all the resources that we need to spend on the battery.
Coal dust can be made with crusher
, by placing ordinary coal in it. How glass is mined, I think, is not worth explaining. The most difficult parts are the generator and electrical circuits.
Let's start with electrical circuits. They are crafted from insulated copper wires, iron plate, and red dust. The craft looks like this.
Copper Wires can be crafted from Copper Sheets, which in turn can be crafted by placing a Hammer and a Copper Ingot into a Workbench. Such wires are insulated with the help of rubber (rubber), it is extracted from trees - hevea, and then fired in a furnace.
Now let's move on to crafting the generator. To do this, we need a mechanism body (you can use three iron plates and an iron stove instead), a battery and an ordinary stone stove.
To craft a battery, you will need red dust (2 pieces), tin sheath (4 pieces) and insulated tin wire. The occasion is created in the same way as the copper one. And the shell can be crafted with a hammer and tin ingots, for this you first need to make a plate from the ingot, and then process it again with a hammer (2 ingots for the shell and one for the wire will take one battery).
The body of the mechanism is not difficult to assemble, for it you need to get 8 iron ingots and flatten them with the same hammer. Next, place it in the workbench in such a way that one unoccupied cell remains in the center.
To summarize everything that is required for crafting in industrial craft 2
solar panel
: coal - 3 pieces, glass - 3 pieces, insulated copper wires - 12 pieces (6 ingots of copper), insulated tin wire - 1 piece (1 ingot, and 1-2 wires will still remain), iron ingots - 10 pieces, red dust - 6 pieces, tin - 4 pieces and 8 pieces of cobblestone.
V industrialcraft 2 solar panel
crafted this way, however, there are additions to the IC2 that add more complex solar cell designs, they can save space - after all, one improved battery contains several simple batteries.
You can install a solar battery only under a clear sky, i.e.nothing should be above it. Yes, and the option with a lamp will not work (already tried it), i.e. it won't work at night. Even a glass ceiling will interfere - there will be no energy production. For one cycle, it produces only 1 unit of energy. And in one day (namely, light - 10 minutes), if you take a calculator and calculate, it produces - 13050 EU.
It is also worth mentioning that such a battery will not produce energy during rain. Thus, the most convenient place to install it is the desert, because it does not rain there and the solar panel will generate energy all day without interruption.
A complicated way to craft an environmentally friendly energy source
Making an improved solar panel according to a more complex recipe should be done in much the same way. The only major difference is that instead of reinforced glass, a luminous glass panel will be used in the same amount - three pieces.
To make it, you first need to craft glowing uranium. To do this, its enriched ingot must be placed in the center of the workbench, and four units of light dust should be placed on the sides, bottom and top. Such products will require two pieces.
Glowing uranium ingots will go to the extreme cells of the middle horizontal row of the machine, light dust will stand between them, and reinforced glass will occupy the remaining six slots. The result will be luminous glass panels, and in sufficient quantities - six pieces (this is enough for two improved solar panels).
Energy in IndustrialCraft 2 plays an important role, without it it will be impossible to use many of the mechanisms added in this modification. Generators (windmill, geothermal generator, water mill, etc.) are used to extract energy, it is also possible to extract energy using solar panels. Industrialcraft 2 solar panel
- a kind of energy source. In reality, it recycles sunlight, creating electrons from it. In the game, in fact, the same possibility is implemented, i.e. electricity appears in the wires only when the sun is shining, so at night there will be little sense from the solar panel.
So, let's go directly to the crafting of this device.
As you can see from the picture, to craft this mechanism, you will need the following - coal dust (3 pieces), an electrical circuit (2 pieces), glass (3 pieces) and a generator. Let's analyze the crafting of each part separately in order to calculate all the resources that we need to spend on the battery.
Coal dust can be made with crusher
, by placing ordinary coal in it. How glass is mined, I think, is not worth explaining. The most difficult parts are the generator and electrical circuits.
Let's start with electrical circuits. They are crafted from insulated copper wires, iron plate, and red dust. The craft looks like this.
Copper Wires can be crafted from Copper Sheets, which in turn can be crafted by placing a Hammer and a Copper Ingot into a Workbench. Such wires are insulated with the help of rubber (rubber), it is extracted from trees - hevea, and then fired in a furnace.
Now let's move on to crafting the generator. To do this, we need a mechanism body (you can use three iron plates and an iron stove instead), a battery and an ordinary stone stove.
To craft a battery, you will need red dust (2 pieces), tin sheath (4 pieces) and insulated tin wire. The occasion is created in the same way as the copper one. And the shell can be crafted with a hammer and tin ingots, for this you first need to make a plate from the ingot, and then process it again with a hammer (2 ingots for the shell and one for the wire will take one battery).
The body of the mechanism is not difficult to assemble, for it you need to get 8 iron ingots and flatten them with the same hammer. Next, place it in the workbench in such a way that one unoccupied cell remains in the center.
To summarize everything that is required for crafting in industrial craft 2
solar panel
: coal - 3 pieces, glass - 3 pieces, insulated copper wires - 12 pieces (6 ingots of copper), insulated tin wire - 1 piece (1 ingot, and 1-2 wires will still remain), iron ingots - 10 pieces, red dust - 6 pieces, tin - 4 pieces and 8 pieces of cobblestone.
V industrialcraft 2 solar panel
crafted this way, however, there are additions to the IC2 that add more complex solar cell designs, they can save space - after all, one improved battery contains several simple batteries.
You can install a solar battery only under a clear sky, i.e. nothing should be above it. Yes, and the option with a lamp will not work (already tried it), i.e. it won't work at night. Even a glass ceiling will interfere - there will be no energy production. For one cycle, it produces only 1 unit of energy. And in one day (namely, light - 10 minutes), if you take a calculator and calculate, it produces - 13050 EU.
It is also worth mentioning that such a battery will not produce energy during rain. Thus, the most convenient place to install it is the desert, because it does not rain there and the solar panel will generate energy all day without interruption.
CompactSolars
If you don't like any of the improved minecraft batteries, then you should install the optional CompactSolars mod. With it, you will receive several new items at once. Their advantage is that the improved panel will take up much less space than conventional batteries. This add-on was created in order to deal with lags that occurred due to overloading the server with large fields of energy sources.
Such energy sources have existed in Industrial Craft since the very beginning. However, gamers were not very happy with them. For a truly complete replenishment of the energy needs in the game, it was necessary to build just a huge field, consisting entirely of solar panels. In addition, such devices were very capricious in terms of weather conditions and time of day. They functioned, in fact, only on a clear day, which is why there was little sense from them.
Therefore, the developers of the mod created a special addon for it - Advanced Solar Panels. This addition added improved panels for the accumulation and conversion of solar energy to the game. They have become more compact, but at the same time very capacious. In addition, they are able to produce electricity even at night and in bad weather.
Terms of use
This mod, unlike traditional windmills and watermills, must be used in a 1x1 work area. That is, it will take only one block. This unit cannot be operated at night or in the rain. Therefore, you need to install it in minecraft only where direct sunlight enters. There should not be any blocks, glass, cables or pipes above the batteries that the BuildCraft mod has. Snow is the only exception. During one light day in minecraft, one solar panel generates up to 13 thousand EU, giving out a voltage of 1 EU / f. After installing such a system in the desert, you will not be afraid of rain, since it does not happen here. The only problem for the batteries will be at night.
Like many other sources of electricity in minecraft, this panel will become available only after you install the industrial craft 2 mod. Although it is perceived by many as an additional source of current, if you craft a lot of such systems, you can completely replenish all your energy reserves. It is best to collect energy in minecraft in special batteries, which will allow you to use it on cloudy days and even at night.
Complete set of hybrid SES
- Solar panels
- hybrid inverter
- Rechargeable batteries
- Auxiliary components (cable, protection system, fastening system, connectors)
A hybrid solar power plant will be an excellent solution if:
- There is no power supply, or its connection is planned after some time.At the time of the absence of the network, the power plant will operate according to the scheme of an autonomous solar power plant - to power the house from solar panels and batteries, and after the network is connected to the house, it will make money by selling electricity to the energy company.
- It is quite common for the network to experience power outages that last more than a few hours. During long outages (more than a day), a conventional uninterruptible power supply will not be able to provide the required amount of electricity. A hybrid solar power plant will supply the house from solar panels, and at the time of their shutdown, for example at night, use electricity from batteries. During the day, when the sun is quite active, the power plant charges the batteries for use at night or on cloudy days.
- The household owner plans to install an autonomous power supply system that can really pay for itself. Due to the fact that the station allows selling excess electricity at a feed-in tariff, the profit from them covers the cost of its purchase. The payback period, at the same time, will be longer than in network SPPs, however, unlike autonomous ones, there will indeed be an economic effect.
Of course, a hybrid solar power plant is the most functional type of all solar power plants. It combines all the advantages of all types of solar stations. At the same time, the hybrid station has a number of disadvantages:
- Greater value of capital costs. Due to its wide functionality and a large number of components, it is the most expensive SES among all three types.
- Inverter limitation. As a rule, hybrid voltage inverters have a degree of dust and moisture protection IP20 and significant restrictions on ambient temperature. This prevents them from being used outdoors or in cold/dusty environments.
- Long payback period. With frequent use of batteries and their regular replacement (every 3-8 years), the payback of a hybrid power plant can reach more than 8-10 years.
- Despite its autonomy, in the event of prolonged cloudy weather, a hybrid power plant may not provide full-fledged power supply to houses (during the day it will not have time to fully charge the batteries).
Quite often, specialists in the field of solar energy, as an alternative to hybrid solar power plants, offer their customers to install a system combination of "grid solar power plant + uninterruptible power supply (UPS)".
The principle of the system is as follows: a network solar power plant sells electricity to the state, and in the event of a power outage from the network, an uninterruptible unit, in combination with batteries, will provide backup power to the necessary electrical consumers. Such an execution scheme is approximately similar to a hybrid SES in terms of cost, however, it cannot completely replace it in the event of a prolonged power outage.
At the same time, the economic effect of the "grid solar power plant + UPS" system will be more tangible. The fact is that non-gel batteries can be used to ensure uninterrupted power supply, but for example, agm batteries, which have fewer charge / discharge cycles and are cheaper. In addition, as practice shows, when using an uninterruptible power supply, the battery "lives" longer, since the battery is in buffer mode with constant recharging and shallow discharge, which are optimal conditions for battery operation.
It is necessary to make a decision on whether to buy a hybrid solar power plant, starting from the requirements and features of the facility where it will be installed. In any case, all solar power plants of any type are a step forward towards an environmentally friendly future and energy independence.
