Legacy RTU Upgrade

The first site of three has been successfully upgraded as part of TasNetworks project to remove unsupported RTU from service.

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The first site was Rosebery located on Tasmanian West Coast. The RTU provides operational control and monitoring of TasNetworks Rosebery Substation (110/44/22kV). The substation provides power supply to Nearby mine operations and the Rosebery and Tullah distribution feeders.

The RTU was upgraded by means of recommissioning the D20M+ RTU IO Peripheral Boards with newer D20ME processor. That is, the expensive option of rewiring and recommission all the RTU physical wiring was avoided by simply replacing a firmware chip (PCommon) on each IO board.