Explosion at the Hoover Dam - God DAM it

Can't believe no of you FalloutFags made a reference to how the Chinese were bombing Hoover Dam before the Great War.
 
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Devious Dave said:
This still could be a big thing because transformers are really hard to get parts for especially with one like that this is a relevant video
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These sorts of facilities often have whole spare transformers ready to roll in to position in the event of a failure. (At least the old ones, noone pays the money to do it properly these days).

That is of course assuming they haven't already used the spare in the 90 years it's been running.
 
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UnterLord said:
These sorts of facilities often have whole spare transformers ready to roll in to position in the event of a failure. (At least the old ones, noone pays the money to do it properly these days).

That is of course assuming they haven't already used the spare in the 90 years it's been running.
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And that's if the spare is still functionnal after all these years. :thinking:
 
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Super-Chevy454 said:
And that's if the spare is still functionnal after all these years. :thinking:
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If it’s not an oil-filled type transformer then it should be fine. I’m not very familiar or experienced with the distribution/high voltage side of things though.

For all I know they don’t even use dry type transformers for such high voltages in distribution lol

Quick ETA: forgot to add the reason I came to this thread in the first place

THANKS, BECHTEL
 
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It's just a transformer. But it says something about the poor the state of the current infrastructure, and it seems third worldish to have old transformers blowing up because of shitty maintenance, and too high of a power demand on old power plants.

Arizoma and the west coast is so close to rolling blackouts and energy rationing. 45 degrees Celsius and no air conditioning must be a hoot
 
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ICametoLurk said:
Can't believe no of you FalloutFags made a reference to how the Chinese were bombing Hoover Dam before the Great War.
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"Two suits of Chinese stealth armor can be found on the office level of Hoover Dam. They are located in a storage room with some radioactive barrels, in a wooden crate to the left as the player enters the room. There are several wooden crates here, and all but the one containing the suits of armor is empty. The storage room is located in the southeast corner of the western area. The armors' existence is hinted at on the only accessible terminal on the same level, in an engineer's log entry noting that a suit made of "unknown material" was found after the NCR took the dam."



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The following is based on information from Van Buren design documents and is not canon.

These may have been the suits worn by the Chinese Infiltrators who were sealed inside Sub-level 1C during the Hoover Sabotage. Being an older model than those deployed in Anchorage and mainland China, this variant doesn't include the advanced stealth systems of the later models.

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I kinda forgot about that
 
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