Oh that is shiny and pretty useful, even! A lot of people's ideals probably have enough embarrassing microdetails that that's helpful in that direction, too.
She tries to get a sense of the full range and full strength - how much stronger is it when it's just applying to her versus the default state, and how large is the aura effect when she's stretching it out as far as she can while making it still have a noticeable effect?
She writes out the times she's figured out in a simple lil text editor.
Merging:
1st: 6 seconds
2nd: 18 seconds
3rd: 54 seconds
generating:
36 seconds
So that means... a fourth level is 8 base powers generated. Those eight powers require four level 1 mergers, two level 2, and one level 3.
8*36 + 4*6 + 2*18 + 1*54 = 402 s = 6 m, 42 s
That's... pretty fast. Not blazingly fast, the sort of thing that you can rely on being able to do in an emergency, but basically any situation where she has real control of when things start happening, the only real limit here is going to be how 'tired' the assistant is and how much of a good idea of what she's trying for she has. Probably she only has that once a day or so, from the recharge, but in principle if she ever has say, ten minutes, she can probably totally respec by just dumping everything.
can she... 'save' power configurations? If she figures out something that works it'd be good to be able to replicate it precisely again, and ideally 'buffer her inputs' so that she doesn't have to think too hard about it and doesn't lose any time, in case that bit of time is ever important.
She might as well use all but the last little bit of the power generation capacity - She should probably make a dedicated focus for the green lantern stuff - maybe some sort of... stainless steel generation power, if she can get that? The material probably isn't that important but having something that she can control the shape of and that'll last well is probably a good idea. If that works, she might as well just fill in the last slot with an anti-synergy power, since she's going to have this configuration set for a while, short of some emergency that means that she has to use the last power generation.