I decided to do a bit of research and code up a little something.
This will calculate the amount of Solar Panels and Batteries required when given an amount of Power Consumption (kPs).
I think this may be useful for some of you out there 
JSFiddleNote: Let me know if there are any issues, mistakes, suggestions, or otherwise.
Thanks for this. I will be trying it out! 
Oh, pretty cool! Thank you! <3 
<3
Bookmarked!
With some help of another Discord user, a bot command for minimal calculation is now available on the NMS Discord as well:
!power x (where x is consumption in kPs 0-50000)
The result includes a link to the full version for full details.
Woot! 
Good work ā¦ btw what does kPs stands for in NMS ? As an engineer the units of power consumption that I use are watts or Kilowatts/unit of time ā¦?
Oh behaveā¦
Well, the image above pretty much says it all
It is assumed to mean ākilo Power per secondā, although the āsecondsā are basically the minutes counting down in in-game time, not real-time. This I believe, is used as the in-game tick duration which is close to a real-time second.
I have checked various planets where a full day/night cycle lasts exactly 30 minutes real time. This would mean that 1 minute in-game time equals 1.15 seconds real-time. My calculator is based on the in-game tick, with a full day resulting in 1440 ticks. This actually makes kPs a bit awkward, as it uses the in-game minutes as if they are seconds. But hey, itās a game after all ā¦
Thank you for the enlightenment !
Enjoy the game
Le lun. 11 mai 2020 Ć 23:36, Devilin Pixy via ETARC Community etarc@discoursemail.com a Ć©crit :
I have updated the Solar/Battery calculator after some further research into day/night cycles and durations of sunrise, day, sunset, and night. Calculations are now based on real-time instead, using a worst case scenario.
Worst case scenario is when you are located on the path where the sun passes directly overhead.
| In-game | Real-time | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| sunrise | 05:20 - 06:26 | 1h06m | 66m | 25 kPs | 82.5s |
| day | 06:26 - 17:34 | 11h08m | 668m | 50 kPs | 835s |
| sunset | 17:34 - 18:40 | 1h06m | 66m | 25 kPs | 82.5s |
| night | 18:40 - 05:20 | 10h40m | 640m | 0 kPs | 800s |
The best case would be a location furthest away from the sun, where it is always sunset/sunrise. No batteries would be required at all in this case. Hard to find āsolar polesā, as these usually do not appear to match the planet pole coordinates.
| In-game | Real-time | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| sunrise sunset |
00:00 - 00:00 | 24h00m | 1440m | 25 kPs | 1800s |
The link has been updated in the top post and no longer requires changing with future changes
NMS - Solar / Battery Calculator JSFiddle
Itās obviously misspelling of kilopascalā¦ of radiation pressure, perhaps?
To quote an old interview with sean murray, āwe actually had a real periodic table in there once, but then we realised that people would learn something, and we canāt have that in our gamesā. 