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Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure Hints
How do I get the fans on level 1 going?
1 of 7: Go down to level 1 and walk around to the blue control panel on the far side from the elevator to find the fan controls. If you can get these fans going, the reactor will turn back on. (That's the theory, at any rate.)
2 of 7: The goal is to get both numbers at 100. The switch under each fan can go left, right, or off. Read to the end of this hint for the way to turn the fans.
3 of 7: If you ask him, Tex says this is like putting weights on either side of a scale, but it's not easy to figure out the effect of the individual fans.
4 of 7: One way is to turn all the fans to the left, then turn one fan at a time to the right and note the number that comes up.
5 of 7: If you label the fans A to E top to bottom, fan A is 30, B is 50, C is 10, D is 69, and E is 40. So to make 100 --
6 of 7: -- turn fans A and D one way, and fans B, C, and E the other way. And --
