Vault Tec Water Pump??

[Capt Cliff]

Anyone figured out how to power up the big water pump in Vault 88? I buitl generators out there but they won't connect to it!!

[Pøläär §nøw]

I simply placed the 100 watt reactor down near the water pump, placed 2 tower connectors and ran power line right too the water pump after fixing the 2 spots first. Makes 100 water. Which I find low for the size of the pump. But hey, it works.

[GM Pax]

Originally posted by Killzone:

Originally posted by Capt Cliff:

Wow!! I tried that and when the pump is highlighted white the power plants are not and visa versa. As for the conduits where do you run the conduit?? You can not place a white rectangular power point on the outside of a vault tec modual to transfer power from the main generator!

You can place them on the outside of domestic and utility hall pieces.

Inside, too. But neither inside nor outside the double-wide hallway, sadly.

The various structural pieces seem to conduct power around just fine, you just need the Vault conduit thingy to "radiate" power to things like lights, or to provide a connection point for things that need to be wired up directly (e.g. pumps, turrets, etc).

[Styyxx]

I built a recator in the cave and contected it to the top and it worked fine. But the reactor has borken twice and has needed repairing. The second time everything was working but it registered 0 water. I left it alone and it eventually showed 100.

[Capt Cliff]

I finally got it to work. You can power it off the reactor that comes with the vault no new one is required. Sorry Rueben! The problem was a horrible placement of the pump power connector at the top. You have to put a power pylon right on top of that one nearest pipe, run a line from a vault power conduit on the out side of a utility modual and wham bam thank you mam! No extra power plant is required!

Thanks guys for all the help and hints!

[wizardsmoon3]

First of all, I found that building a normal generator did not work to power the waterpump...may be a bug for me, I don't know. Neither did the fuson generator. I built a Super-Reactor next to the East Sector Workshop, with the power rod facing the Workshop. I'm sure the smaller reactor would work there as well. (Remember...all the uranium you gather is turned into Nuclear Material, needed to build these reactors, and there is a lot of it to gather. Be sure to look up on the ceiling of the caves...it's there too.)
Once I had the reactor in place, I built 4 Large Power Pylons leading to the waterpump. attached them to the reactor and then to the pump. The wire needs to attach to the top of the pump. There is no "switch" to turn it on, however there are 3 places on the pump you can get to, to "activate" it. Run across one of the large pipes attached to the pump, point to where the pipe enters the pump and you should get an activation request. The pump doesn't make any noise when started, so go into build mode and you should see that you have 100 water. I have read that there is a bug regarding the pump, so it may not work for you.
Once I had the pump going I build another Large Power Pylon on the other side of the reactor, between it and the tunnel. I used the small ceiling Power Conduits to run along the steel beams at the top of the tunnel, across the overhead pipes to the other side of the tunnel and, again on the steel beam to the enterance of the main room. I had placed a door and a wall in front of the tunnel, so on the tunnel side of the door I placed a wall Power Conduit and ran the wire to it. After that I no longer needed to run any wires. I placed a Vault Power Conduit (272) on the inside of the Atrium wall next to the door and it generated power...WITHOUT WIRES...to all other Vault Power Conduits. Each of these conduits seem to supply power to approximately an 8 to 10 floor square area. I have only used the Vault Power Conduits...again, without running any wires...and I have light everywhere in the main hall, hallways, rooms and shops.
Hope that helps.
BTW, I am, proudly, a 65 year old grandmother to a family of gamers, and I have over 2000 hours of playing Fallout 4. I know FO4 can be frustrating at times, but with a little patience and enginuity, you can accomplish anything! I do NOT use mods, although I must say, I have been tempted at times. You would think that over 200 years, these people would learn to use a broom, or a shovel, a bar of soap and a little deorderant!

[Pøläär §nøw]

Originally posted by wizardsmoon3:

BTW, I am, proudly, a 65 year old grandmother to a family of gamers, and I have over 2000 hours of playing Fallout 4. I know FO4 can be frustrating at times, but with a little patience and enginuity, you can accomplish anything! I do NOT use mods, although I must say, I have been tempted at times. You would think that over 200 years, these people would learn to use a broom, or a shovel, a bar of soap and a little deorderant!

It is nice to see I am not the only old person, let alone woman, who games. We got to keep these youngins in check. Retired in 2001 after 18 yrs driving tractor/trailers, and 7 yrs fighting forest fires for the U.S.Forestry Service.

At present I have more than 2,300 hours in FO4 with no mod's (I love the music, grew up listening to this stuff), 1,800 hours in Payday2, over 3,000 hours in Space Engineers. Been gaming since Dungeon & Dragons was new. Before they changed it to AD&D. Had the very first gaming console as well. Back in 1972, the Magnavox Odessey aka the "Brown Box". And I take a serious amount of time gaming, slow and steady wins the race. And in FO4, it helps with stealth ninja stuff. Love the building stuff alot.

Some of the folks in the Commonwealth don't look like they have any clue what taking a bath means. And those meat bags hanging all over the place. Raiders sleeping in beds over dead bodies, and what is it with everyone having their heads and hands cut off and chains thru their necks. LOL I'm not sure it was even that bad in the dark ages. LOL

[dragonemp]

use the highest power conduit, it's easy to connect

[DanInMotion]

Here's a video on how to power it with the main reactor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlupHDGjhz0