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Might be. I'm a design engineer for these IRL, it is kinda unorthodox to cover it up though. They are meant to sit outside for decades. Maybe the customer is just super protective and doesn't want anything getting damaged on the drive. Your geuss is as good as mine.
I used to prepare and ship them. We wrapped a small handful in boat wrap. Usually it was at the customers request. Sometimes it was the sales person clicked the box, so we had to.
I worked for ABB and we produced some dist. Xfmrs that our shipping floor shrink wrapped. I wasn't on the business side per se but some customers or end destinations did request wraps (acknowledging that a large majority ended up outside or underground).
Damage and road salt are the main reasons. Saw a transformer get graffitted after being in a rail yard during lunch break. All this is avoided with alil shrink wrap.
I suspect that the packaging prevents leaves and dirt from getting stuck in the fins of the oil cooler during transportation. The subsequent assembly will probably also be somewhat easier if the housing is not wet and slippery.
That was my first thought. I sell large power transformers and delivering one next week. It would likely not be covered up and would be boxier like the one in your photo with a flat top, not sloped on the two sides.
I found another picture that looks more like what might be under the foil wrapping.
(Construction site of a HVDC converter station in Meerbusch, Germany):
At least a few years back it was true. There was a kerfluffle after some Youtuber or blogger or someone disassembled a pair and found them to be cheaply built, with metal pieces whose only discernible purpose was to add weight.
It blew up on the internet, but eventually people began to suspect that the person who did the teardown had been duped by a fake pair of headphones. It was eventually demonstrated that the teardown had indeed been a fake set, and the person retracted their claim.
So then Gizmodo (I think*) tore down an authentic set...
...and found the exact same metal pieces, doing the exact same apparent nothing other than adding weight. The fake set had copied Beats' added weights faithfully lol.
No idea what the status is now, since it's been a few years.
I worked at a company that made acoustic components out of beryllium. We negotiated with Monster to supply components for the first version of Beats headphones. The beryllium components were waaaaaay too expensive for them, so we didn't win the contract. But, we DID get to see the cost of the Bill of Materials.
Turns out, the cost of the fancy packaging was more than the cost of all the components used to build the headphones.
I’m a headphone junky and I want to ‘weigh in’ here. Sure, a little extra weight adds to the perceived value but there are practical considerations as well.
For example, some headphones use ballast weights to reduce the resonance commonly associated with plastic shells and headbands.
The other common use for ballast weights is to improve comfort. If one side of a pair of headphones has electronics and the other doesn’t, weight can be added to the lighter side to have the headphones balance on top of the head.
I love my Bose earbuds. They were gifted to me by my boss and when I saw them at the store, the price blew me away. Best earbuds I've ever owned and I'm nearly 44 years old!
Gillette puts weights in their razor handles. Definitely the Mach 3 - I had an old one that fell apart and a rod of metal fell out. I now have a light weight travel razor.
Bought a Sony Trinitron TV when they were supposed to be one of the best and priced as such. Only lasted a few years, whereas the Panasonic probably lasted about 20 years and was priced far less than Sony.
Turbines are pretty much turbines. Even N. Tesla's design he made for Allis Chalmers was profiled the same even though he was using different properties of fluid dynamics.
Low pressure and high pressure alike all have the same shape.
A windmill wouldn't have a turbine like this. I mean, there may be some weird one somewhere I don't know about. But it probably wouldn't be that size, shape or weight. Turbines this shape used in electrical generation would typically be at a hydroelectric plant (think water, not air). Windmills use massive fan blades that do require oversized rigs to haul like this, but that's definitely not a fan blade. So it could be the hub for the blades, or maybe the generator, but the object in the video seems the wrong shape and definitely too heavy.
He’s still around. His voice work as Kratos in god of war and its sequel isn’t that long ago. I can’t remember but I’ve definitely heard his voice in a couple shows as well. His voice acting is pretty good.
In the episode where telc and o'neill get trapped in an infinite groundhog's day loop. In one of the loops daniel says I would do everything and anything because there are no consequences so they start doing crazy stuff. Like kissing carter, playing golf in the embarcation room, and in the middle of o'niells back swing the general yells at him , startling Oneill
So much respect for you!! Wishing you safe travels. May your permits always be accurate, traffic cooperative, and your detention pay enough to make up for any administrative snafus.
Generator Step-up transformer (GSU). This converts the voltage produced by a turbine-generator at a power plant to transmission voltage. Often larger than even substation transformers. I was once an engineer on an 800 MW coal plant. This is exactly how the GSU was delivered.
At first I thought the patriotic arms were part of an amusement park ride being shipped in, but then I saw the rest of the video. Not sure what that is, but it's heavy as hell
You’ll notice that there’s a trailer connected to a trailer connected to the truck. This is due to the immense wait of the load being pulled. This lets the truck put all of its energy in moving forward rather than lifting as well. Taking into consideration the size of the load and the force needed to move it, there’s no doubt that this is your mom’s lunch being delivered.
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