How do I build a Dyson Sphere?

I have a pretty far advanced base now in Dyson Sphere Program, but so far I actually didn't really try to build a dyson sphere, I didn't even put any solar sails into orbit as I vaguely remembered from a previous game that they were somewhat disappointing with only early upgrades. I also didn't have many power issues after paving both poles with solar panels.

I have reasearched the majority of the main tech tree now, though I'm still missing quite a bit of the upgrades tree. My plan was to start with massively expanding the production of everything, but I discovered that I didn't have enough solar panels after all. So I switched plans now and I want to create a dyson sphere for power generation before expanding my base even further. I set up the basic infrastucture for producing all components, but now I need to design the dyson sphere and scale up the entire thing.

The dyson sphere editor is kinda intimidating, and I don't think I understand what I'm doing there. There are a lot of options to design a sphere, so far I just put a ring of nodes two grid spaces apart from each other into the sphere. I tried to look up some hints on how to use this, but most people talking about it seem to be much further into the game than I am and try to do more fancy stuff.

I want to build the simplest sphere to provide a reasonable amount of power for the expansion of my base. I don't care about hyper-optimizing this, I just want a simple dyson sphere to get started. I have a whole bunch of aspects where I'm not sure what reasonable settings are:

• should the sphere, or rather the initial ring be in the same plane as my solar system or in another one?
• how big is a reasonable radius?
• how does the whole nodes stuff work? What patterns should I use there?
• where do I place the ejectors and receivers ideally?
• where do I shoot the solar sails, and how do they get into the sphere?