CHAPTER 574: CHAPTER 472: THE ELECTRICAL CIRCUIT DILEMMA

Breaking down the Weather Controller into different functional modules is indeed a way to reduce its footprint.

Initially, when the Suyians built the Weather Controller, they used a flat structure, which meant that all the ancillary facilities of the Weather Controller were on the same plane, leading to a very large footprint.

However, if it were to be divided into different functional modules, stacking them could help reduce its overall footprint.

It’s like having a dozen books laid out flat takes up a lot of space, but if you stack them together, it only takes up the space of one book.

Nonetheless, even so, the Weather Controller is still a huge, unimaginably massive entity.

The base that covers several hectares, the vast majority of which is occupied by the ancillary facilities and functional modules of the Weather Controller, and even if Chen Xin could dismantle it and organize it into the Mobile Base, it wouldn’t fit with the current capacity of one Mobile Base.

Even if the entire interior of the Mobile Base were hollowed out, it wouldn’t fit, the volume is just too much.

So, before considering how to fit the Weather Controller into the Mobile Base, we first need to reduce the size of each ancillary facility and functional module of the Weather Controller.

And this is a real tough battle, both for Chen Xin and the regular staff, it’s a hard nut to crack that requires real skill and effort to tackle.

In manufacturing, it’s a widely recognized principle that ensuring functionality while minimizing size requires high technical standards.

It’s not just a matter of processing precision; another crucial factor is how to maintain the functionality of devices or parts even as they are downsized, ensuring they retain their original functionality rather than being diminished by the reduction in size.

For example, the reason a laptop is more expensive than a desktop is fundamentally because its internal components need to be smaller than those of a desktop.

At the same time, you have to consider a host of issues such as power consumption and cooling; it’s not just a simple matter of proportionately scaling down.

This issue is not only faced by laptops and desktops, but also by large-scale equipment like the Weather Controller.

In fact, the challenges faced by the Weather Controller are even more severe.

The first challenge facing Chen Xin and the researchers is how to solve the power line issue.

The Weather Controller is a super energy-consuming entity, not only requiring a nuclear power station to supply its energy, but also needing thick cables to transmit this massive amount of power.

If placed at a base, it’s manageable; you can dig dedicated cable trenches for the thick cables, there is always room for installation.

But it’s different for the Mobile Base, its volume is fixed, and how to organize the wiring is practically an art.

Because it’s not just about connecting the lines; you need to ensure there’s no mutual interference between lines, maintain optimal energy transmission efficiency, and crucially fit all these cables into the already constrained space of the Mobile Base.

"I’ve already contacted the domestic side, and the small fusion reactor will be shipped over as soon as possible; before that, we need to propose a basic wiring plan." Chen Xin projected a perspective model of the Mobile Base on the conference table using nano molecules, removing the existing energy system and replacing it with a model of a small fusion reactor.

Seeing Chen Xin place the fusion reactor inside the Mobile Base and the interior automatically accommodating the size of the small fusion reactor, several staff members were impressed, finding this nano molecule projection technology very useful and intuitive.

Of course, these impressions lasted only a moment before everyone’s focus returned.

The Mobile Base perspective model projected by Chen Xin had not only the structure and equipment but also an exact simulation of the original electrical circuits.

With the entire design drawings of the Mobile Base available, what Chen Xin accomplished wasn’t surprising.

For other staff members, it spared them the trouble of sifting through piles of drawings, allowing them to visually understand the wiring of the Mobile Base.

However, faced with the complex web-like internal electrical circuits of the Mobile Base, some felt they might be better off going back to the drawings to avoid the dizziness.

Inside the vast Mobile Base, almost every spot requires electricity, so naturally, circuits are indispensable.

On the drawings, it might be just a thin line and symbols, but in reality, it could be dozens or even hundreds of wires and cables, and when these cables are fully displayed in front of you, they weave a giant web far more complex than a spider’s web.

Especially when you have to distinguish each wire’s purpose and where it should be connected within that dense network, it’s exhausting on the eyes.

Fortunately, Chen Xin realized this and adjusted by hiding overly complicated, detailed circuits, leaving only the main lines.

It became a lot more intuitive, like if all the blood vessels including capillaries in a person were drawn in detail, it would be so dense it’d make anyone dizzy, impossible to distinguish what’s what, but if it’s just the main arteries and veins, even a middle school student could figure out what those vessels are for.

"Academician, this wiring doesn’t seem easy to connect!" A staff member responsible for electrical design looked at the projected wiring on the Mobile Base and said somewhat apprehensively, "The electrical energy output from the small fusion reactor needs to be adjusted by a transformer; besides supplying the Weather Controller, it also has to supply the original power system and other internal electrical equipment.

It not only can’t be reduced, but also must ensure the normal operation of these existing devices without causing interference... along with internal structural adjustments, fitting in various functional modules of the Weather Controller means essentially redoing the entire electrical wiring!"

"Why, can’t it be done?" Hearing the staff member’s words, Chen Xin didn’t say much, he merely turned his gaze to them, showing a hint of sternness.

It’s not that he’s being harsh, intending to make things difficult for them, but rather this is among the simplest challenges in the entire project.

"How could it not be! It’s the challenges that highlight our capabilities, right?" Yet this staff member smiled, showing confidence.