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Nothing to do with luck
At Hoosier Park Casino in Anderson, Indiana, the owners extended the site in the MTU Report The magazine of the MTU and
Indiana, two MTU Onsite Energy emergency middle of 2008 to include a casino with 83,610 MTU Onsite Energy brands PUBLISHED
backup gensets provide for reliable running square feet of floor space and over 2,000 elec- BY Tognum AG; Publisher’s representative:
Wolfgang Boller EDITOR IN CHIEF Lucie
of the casino – and some lucky horses. tronic gaming machines. In its very first year, the
Dammann, e-mail: lucie.dammann@ tognum.
Hoosier Park Casino was visited by around two
com, Tel. +49 7541 90-2974
Flashing lights, shrill sound effects and the million gamblers. In the past, regular storms EDITORS Detlef Becker, e-mail: detlef.be-
noisy hubbub of voices….But in the center of and power-grid overloads meant that Anderson cker@tognum.com, Tel. +49 7541 90-4922;
the gambling hall, an almost eerie silence reigns suffered frequent power outages. To ensure the Mirko Gutemann, e-mail: mirko.gutemann
around the slot machine. As if in a trance, the operation of the casino was immune from such @tognum.com, Tel. +49 7541 90-4741;
bystanders gaze at the screen and the wheels interruptions, the MTU distributor Clarke Power Katrin Hanger, e-mail: katrin.hanger@tog-
num.com, Tel. +49 7541 90-7740; Anika
as they revolve ever more slowly. Five of a num- Services of Indianapolis installed the two emer-
Kannler, e-mail: nika.kannler@tognum.com,
ber – and the jackpot’s finally cracked. “Seven”, gency power gensets. And they have already Tel. +49 7541 90-7743; Melanie Staudacher,
“Seven” “Seven”, “Seven” and…suddenly every- been able to demonstrate their reliability. They e-mail: melanie.staudacher@tognum.com,
thing is pitch black – a power outage. were up and running in less than ten seconds Tel. +49 7541 90-6535; Alina Welsen, e-mail:
during a temporary voltage dip and a power cut alina.welsen@tognum.com, Tel. +49 7541
That sort of scenario will never be played out lasting several minutes. 90-6030 PHOTOGRAPHERS AND IL-
LUSTRATORS Bell, Deutsche Bahn, Fotolia,
at Hoosier Park, located 20 miles northeast of
Getty Images, Robert Hack, Liebherr, MTU
Indianapolis, the state capitol of Indiana. The Silencers for happy horses. Detroit Diesel, Perlini, Staatliche Toto-Lotto
casino’s owners recently installed two MTU EPA 2-compliance and, in particular, minimal GmbH Baden-Württemberg, Terex, Tognum
Onsite Energy emergency backup gensets that noise output were the specifications demanded EDITORIAL ADRESS Tognum AG,
are ready to start up automatically within a of the new emergency backup gensets. The low- Maybachplatz 1, 88045 Friedrichshafen
matter of seconds the next time the power goes nose requirement was important because of DESIGN AND PRODUCTION design-
manufaktur| ries, 88214 Ravensburg
down. Driven by two 16-cylinder Series 2000 their immediate proximity to the racehorse sta-
1 EDITORIAL OFFICE Sigrid Hartmann,
engines with a combined power output of 2,000 bles where up to 450 trap ponies and thorough-
88697 Bermatingen ORIGINATION
2 kilowatts, the gensets can cover the electricity breds are housed. It is essential they are bliss- wagner ...digitale medien, 88709 Meers-
requirements of the entire casino including the fully unaware if there is ever a power failure. burg PRINTED BY Eberl Print GmbH,
life safety loads of the horse-racing track that Immenstadt im Allgäu ISSN-Nr 09 42-82
is part of it. Alina Welsen 59, Reproduction quoting source permitted.
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