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| ==== Project: Accelerator Emergency ==== | ==== Project: Accelerator Emergency ==== |
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| With your help, the FTOE staff were able to re-start the hawkion accelerator. But after a few minutes of operation, disaster strikes. Among other things, the accelerator magnets seem to be malfunctioning. Operations director Melissa Lewis decides the accelerator needs to be shut down, but just as she gives the order, there's a huge bang and warning lights start going off everywhere. Several systems start to lose power and there's a risk that the hawkion containment systems may fail, with potentially catastrophic consequences for Lakeview. | With your help, the FTOE staff were able to re-start the hawkion accelerator. But after a few minutes of operation, the control screen goes blank and a message from Manny the conspiracy theorist appears! He's convinced that the storms around Lakeview are caused by his strange creatures in the woods, and that the hawkion accelerator is somehow attracting them to Lakeview. He's hacked the accelerator control system so that the device will malfunction and blow itself up. |
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| After a quick investigation, it turns out that the circuit that controls all of the key systems is currently drawing too much current from the main battery. A bright but intense FTOE intern proposes a risky but possibly brilliant solution: to dump the hawkion beam into an absorber rather than slowing the particles down gradually. They want to take two batteries from another project at the lab and use them to help power the accelerator and the beam dump cooling system at the same time. In addition to the 230 V main battery, they say they will need 140 V from project I.A.N.'s primary battery ($V_{bat1}$) and only 5 V from its backup battery ($V_{bat2}$) to steer the particles into the beam dump. | Operations director Melissa Lewis decides to shut the accelerator down, but just as she gives the order, there's a huge bang and warning lights start going off everywhere. Several systems start to lose power and there's a risk that the hawkion containment systems may fail, with potentially catastrophic consequences for Lakeview. After a quick investigation, it turns out that the circuit that controls all of the key systems is currently drawing too much current from the main battery. |
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| | The new intern, Solomon Tobb, proposes a risky but possibly brilliant solution: to dump the hawkion beam into an absorber rather than slowing the particles down gradually. He wants to take two batteries from another project at the lab and use them to help power the accelerator and the beam dump cooling system at the same time. In addition to the 230 V main battery, he says you can use project I.A.N.'s primary battery ($V_{bat1}$), which delivers 140 V, and its backup battery ($V_{bat2}$), which will provide another 5 V, to keep the accelerator working long enough to steer the particles into the beam dump. |
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| From the accelerator schematics you find the following resistances for different components that need to be powered in order to dump the beam safely: | From the accelerator schematics you find the following resistances for different components that need to be powered in order to dump the beam safely: |
| * Monitor Lights: $R_{ML}=100\Omega$ | * Monitor Lights: $R_{ML}=100\;\Omega$ |
| * Control System: $R_{CS}=700\Omega$ | * Control System: $R_{CS}=700\;\Omega$ |
| * Beam Dump Cooling: $R_{BDC}=950\Omega$ | * Beam Dump Cooling: $R_{BDC}=950\;\Omega$ |
| * Electromagnetic Calorimeter System: $R_{ECS}=500\Omega$ | * Electromagnetic Calorimeter System: $R_{ECS}=500\;\Omega$ |
| * Accelerator Magnets: $R_{AM}=300\Omega$ | * Accelerator Magnets: $R_{AM}=300\;\Omega$ |
| * Magnetic Containment System: $R_{MCS}=425\Omega$ | * Magnetic Containment System: $R_{MCS}=425\;\Omega$ |
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| Will this circuit work without drawing any more than the 0.35 A from the main battery? | Will this circuit work without drawing any more than the 0.35 A from the main battery? |