The solar panel is used to create industrialcraft 2 s eu energy using solar power.
Industrial craft 2 solar panel.
This means that they cannot work during the night during rainstorms underground underwater in the nether or the end.
Due to the relative weakness of power generation solar panels are often assembled into so called solar flowers when using copper cable whereby as many solar panels as possible are connected to a batbox using cable lengths of four segments or less.
The solar panel is a variant of renewable power generators that utilizes the energy of the sun to generate eu.
It can be used to charge any tier of energy storage unit by either connecting the two blocks by placing them directly next to each other or using one of ic2 s different cable types.
Because of the low power generation you are encouraged to use ultra low current cable to wire these to whatever they are powering.
Solar panels are a common type of eu generator used in industrialcraft 2.
They require little effort to set up correctly and each one consistently provides 1 eu t on clear sunny days and as long as the more expensive gregtech 4 recipe is not enabled they re also fairly affordable.