Something about 34000 Plates/min (570 Plates/sec) theoretical limit. The speed at which the furnaces work and the overall throughput is just ridiculous, believe me. The furnaces are filled with PM3s and the Beacons with SM3s. Here is one of my smart furnace setups using beacons: But that is only the case if, like said before, the furnaces are running 24/7 without interruption. With Beacons using Speed Modules you can cut the amount of furnaces needed to a fifth or something in that magnitude if I remember my math correctly.Īlso using the PM's in furnaces + SM's in beacons results in MUCH less power drain than furnaces using PM's but without Beacons pushing their speed. The Speed Modules have the nice sideeffect that you will need less Furnaces, therefore less space, allowing more compact solutions, which is especially interesting if you are aiming for high throughput because I would just hate to have HUGE arrays of furnaces because one needs 150-200 or more furnaces to get the througput needed to do some of the ridiculous stuff some people are doing. While I understand DerivePi's opinion of not using Speed Modules in favor of having more furnaces instead, but since there is no other option on what to use you eventually have to put Speed Modules in the Beacons. So one has to make sure that the furnaces are working 24/7 or otherwise using beacons just doesn't pay off in the first place. I did the math on that with some excel sheets and basically the Beacons kill the efficiency anyways due to them being a constant power drain.
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When using Beacons the EM's disqualify themselves automatically because there is NO combination of EM's with PM's that will ever result in something useful and since Energy/Power is basically for free it makes no sense to use them. I'm with DerivePi on the Efficiency Modules. Since I've been experimenting around with the topic the past 8 months I'd say:įurnaces: Productivity Modules (Since they can't be put inside Beacons) What designs and combinations do you other factorio users use or like? Pros- greater rate of smelting, get more copper plate from less ore, MAY save me time as I MAY need less outpostsĬons- energy consumption goes from 180 kW per furnace to 504 kW per furnace, 80% more pollution, cost of producing said modules, cost of producing solar panels/accumulators Is it worth it to have this setup with the following pros/cons or should I use other module combinations? Currently I'm powering my factory with solar panels/accumulators, totaling up to 108 MW of power during the day. The only cons are WAY INCREASED power demand and more pollution, which I don't really care about.
This works out so that I get 12% productivity without losing speed (because of the beacons). So far, I have 2 level 2 speed modules in the beacons with 2 level 2 productivity modules in the electric furnaces. However, I don't know what the most efficient setup with modules in both the beacons and furnaces might be. Recently in one of my factories I have started using beacons with my copper smelting. My Smelting Setup Furnace.png (1.82 MiB) Viewed 46199 timesHello all.
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