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| To successfully power up the accelerator, | To successfully power up the accelerator, | ||
| - | The engineers have been working in a simulator to figure out how to turn on each of the systems in various orders, but keep running into problems. If the total current from the main battery | + | The engineers have been working in a simulator to figure out how to turn on each of the systems in various orders, but keep running into problems. If the total current from the main battery exceeds 0.35 A, the battery will die -- and with Lakeview still isolated, they can't replace it. |
| The engineers have sent over the most recent steps they tried and the data they collected for each step. | The engineers have sent over the most recent steps they tried and the data they collected for each step. | ||
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| - Turn on only the CR, which seems to work properly and only draws 0.242 A from the battery. | - Turn on only the CR, which seems to work properly and only draws 0.242 A from the battery. | ||
| - Then turn on the PP, which decreases the current from the battery. The CR seems to barely be functioning so you conclude that it is running at it's minimum power of 18.35 W. | - Then turn on the PP, which decreases the current from the battery. The CR seems to barely be functioning so you conclude that it is running at it's minimum power of 18.35 W. | ||
| - | - Next they turned everything off, and switched on only the PP and the FL. Immediately the warning light goes off in the simulator because the current from the battery is way too high at 1.48 A and the flood light has burnt out because the power in the bulb was 264.6 W (exceeding their maximum power rating of 120 W). | + | - Next they turned everything off, and switched on only the PP and the FL. Immediately the warning light goes off in the simulator because the current from the battery is way too high at 1.48 A and the facility lighting |
| - You decide to start over and turn everything off again. You turn on the CS, ECS, and CCM - which seems to be perfectly alright. The current from the battery is maintaining at a nice and safe 0.188 A. Since this combination works well, you grab the hand-dandy multimeter and find that the CS, ECS, and CCM have the same current but that the CS is using the most power (17.7 W) and the ECS is using the least (10.6 W). | - You decide to start over and turn everything off again. You turn on the CS, ECS, and CCM - which seems to be perfectly alright. The current from the battery is maintaining at a nice and safe 0.188 A. Since this combination works well, you grab the hand-dandy multimeter and find that the CS, ECS, and CCM have the same current but that the CS is using the most power (17.7 W) and the ECS is using the least (10.6 W). | ||
| - Just to try one more thing, they turn everything off and then turn on only the PP and the CS. You find that, even though they have the same voltage, the current going through these elements are different. | - Just to try one more thing, they turn everything off and then turn on only the PP and the CS. You find that, even though they have the same voltage, the current going through these elements are different. | ||