Chem Lab

Additional Note from Researcher Sam: The grade of silicon used within the solar panels on Mars are electrical grade polycrystalline silicon with a purity of 99.9999% (otherwise known as six nine).

Discharge and recharge batteries over a few dozen cycles to monitor their health and to improve your electrical skills. This operation isn't necessary for the usage of power cells however.

I'm sure its like a... spa for the power cells?

- Katherine Collins

Battery Conditioning I

Battery Conditioning II

Battery Conditioning III

Duskworks' electrical engineers fabricate a handy multi-purpose PCB from materials completely and only obtained from the Mars surface, just one of the cornerstones of the self-suffienecy pyramid that the programme will accomplish. With the advent of 3D printing and precise machining possible within the low gravity of the sister planet, there is little that Duskworks can't create on the Mars surface.

- Katherine Collins

Ever since the powerful magnetic storm caused by a record-breaking coronal mass ejection event on 3/20/2062, power cell malfunctions had increased in staggering numbers until firmware upgrades fixed the majority of malfunctions. However, these power cells are still on occasion breaking down, and it is in great interest of Leon Dusk and Velma to get to the bottom of this mystery. Duskworks engineers have been dismantling power cells in hopes of finding a cause, however, it is a good source of experience for the time being.

- Katherine Collins

A different method of manufacturing rover wires, from a single ingot of shaped copper wrapped in durable electrical rubber, takes electrical skill in order to manufacture these wires.

While they're known as rover wires, these wires can be used in all sorts of electronics, as the naming is just the standard at which they adhere to, much like 'military-grade'. They've been rated to work and endure Martian weather and conditioning, which is why they can be found littered across the landscape in near perfect condition from malfunctioning rovers.

Won't someone think of the poor rovers?

- Katherine Collins

Electronic Parts are heavier duty circuit boards, typically created radiation resistant in order to prevent single event upsets are used in a multitude of manufacturing processes. The most prominent of course, being the rovers, their brains are made out of these electronics parts. They need to be incredibly resilient to damage and hostile Martian weather.

Rather than being created from scratch, this process combines multiple circuit components in order to create the electronic parts.

- Katherine Collins

Ah, the power cell, a remarkable feat of standardization. Everything from the small scavenging tools to the largest AADZ skyscraping mega-plex on the Mars surface takes a form of these power cells. They aren't the most complicated power cell, water, salts, and electrical components incased within a metal shell can hold a charge for a reasonably long time while being durable. However, since the magnetic field storm, they've come to be a bit more fragile. We've yet to find a solution, but this planet will need more power cells, and such a new alternative way of crafting them has been made available to all settlers.

- Katherine Collins