Appleton Laboratory Station Log

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Official Appleton Laboratory Station Log
March 16, 822 A.S.
-Recorded by Dr. Ron Kosher

The hull segments for the last storage module continue to trickle in. We hope to finish it up in a few days, some of our attention has shifted from building the station to getting our research underway.

I was able to take a couple of the MK II prototype mining arrays out yesterday to do some testing. Unfortunately, both arrays began overheating very quickly and I had to stop to let them radiate off some heat. This was a slow process since many of the components have such low temperature limits, and we didn’t design much in the way of radiators into them since they were supposed to be low power devices. I only cycled them in temperature twice to ensure the issue was repeatable. I asked Jordan to take a look at them since the thermal management was his area on the design. He is dismounting them now to have them moved to the thermal lab we are setting up.

This malfunction bothers me quite a bit, we tested the MK I prototypes in Tau-23 for hundreds of hours and never had any thermal management problems. The MK II graviton mining arrays are are supposed to be even lower power consumption than the MK I. I shouldn’t worry too much, we will see what Jordan turns up in his analysis.

Speaking of Tau-23, this station has been much more of a breeze to get setup than when we built IMG Research Station in Tau-23. For one thing, Bretonia was much quicker in responding to our communications that was Gallia. We are just over a week in, and are pretty much to the point on station contstruction that we with after operating IMG Research Station for a couple of months. You wouldn’t think the experience of building a station would make that much of a difference, but it definitely does. We also have better access to supplies here in Omega-3 than we did in Tau-23. I think it took us a week just to get the shield generator working on IMG Research Station. So far we also haven’t had to deal with any threats such as when the Contari Lance sieged IMG Research very soon after we got the shield generator up. I was so happy when we finished our field research in Tau-23 and sold that station, I swore I would never get involved in building or managing another station… but here I am again. It is amazing what necessity will convince you to do….

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