| Newsletter
September 2005
Abbey
Systems Directors, Lester Abbey
and Tim Naylor are pleased to
announce that Rotorua District
Council has recently awarded the
contract for the replacement of
their complete wastewater pump
station telemetry system to Abbey
Systems. This project replaces
the existing Abbey Systems Modulink
RTUs originally installed in 1990.
The
contract involves a substantial
upgrade of the radio network,
upgrade and replacement of 53
existing pump station RTUs around
Rotorua and Ngongotaha and the
installation of 11 new pump station
controllers at sites in the Mourea
area.
The original system, which was
built up over a number of years,
used three different control methodologies
depending on the well control
equipment installed. The new system,
based on the Abbey Systems Swampfox
Pump Station Controller, standardises
on a single control methodology,
based around analog well level
transducers.
Horowhenua DC have recently confirmed
their order for the supply and
installation of a further 20 RTUs
for water and waste water sites
around the
Horowhenua district. This covers
the Foxton, Shannon, Waitarere
and Levin areas. Abbey Systems
staff recently upgraded Horowhenua’s
SCADA Master PC and commissioned
a number of new Telemetry Mimic
graphics screens for the monitoring
and control of the existing system.
Next
Training Courses will be held
at our factory in early October
2005.
| General
Operations |
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10/11
Oct |
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$850 |
| Programming |
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12 Oct |
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$500 |
| Reporting |
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13
Oct |
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$500 |
| Telemetry
Mimic |
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14 Oct |
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$500 |
| Hardware
& Tech |
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18/19
Oct |
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$1,000 |
That
is just one month away and first
registrations are in, so to secure
your place just email cathy@abbey.co.nz
with the course name, names and
number of attendees along with
your order number.
We
have two new demo pump stations
for these courses fitted with
the Swampfox Pump Station Controller,
for Water and Wastewater operators
to train on. We also have two
Powerlink substation RTUs for
Power Engineers to train on.
(Abbey
Systems reserve the right to postpone
or cancel the course dependant
on enrolled numbers)
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Alpine
Networks - Studholme substation
RTU upgrade
Abbey Systems have recently supplied
a Powerlink RTU for a substantial
upgrade to Alpine Networks Studholme
Substation.
The Powerlink Conitel RTU communicates
with a number of SEL DNP3 protection
relays and discrete I/O from the
existing circuit breakers. It
also controls Decabit and Rhythmatic
Injection plants for load control
(switching hot water and streetlights
on/off). The
Rhythmatic Injection plant is
separated from the RTU by 70 metres
and connects via fibre optic cable
as it falls outside
Transpower’s earthgrid.
Porirua City Council pump station
upgrades
Substantial
upgrades have recently been completed
to the Tangare Drive and City
Centre pump stations for Porirua
City Council. This involved the
replacement of pumps, manifolds,
VSDs, electrical and station control
systems. Both sites use Allen
Bradley PLCs and communicate with
Abbey Systems Topcat RTUs using
AB’s DF-1 protocol for SCADA
monitoring and intersite control.
Max Tarr Industrial carried out
the electrical and control systems
work and our Engineer Graeme Clover
looked after the changes to the
SCADA system.
Export
From
our offices in Salt Lake City,
Utah, USA, Barry Watson reports
recent
sales include:
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Expansion of the Cedar Hills
system, Utah |
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New
Powerlink SCADA systems for
Woods Cross Water, Dammeron
Valley Water & Heber,
Utah.
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Abbey Systems are also involved
in an interesting new project with
Pacific Power (Salt Lake office)
using translation from cellular
to radio for coverage in areas where
cellular has no signal. This project
will be based on the new Swampfox
PSC.
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Telemetry
Mimic View (NEW)
We
have a new option available for
clients who want to allow other
users access
to view Telemetry Mimic (HMI)
screens, but wish to restrict
access to the Powerlink Telemetry
Server software. The product is
called TMView and uses
a new Powerlink node that acts
as a Server to a number of TMView
floating licences over a Local
Area Network.
Powerlink
Multiport GDI (NEW)
Powerlink
can now support multiple Powerlink
OPC servers or copies of
TMW32 simultaneously. This means
your backup or office copy of
iFix, Intouch
or Citect can get data directly
from the source Abbey Systems
Telemetry Server. Pricing is available
for 2, 4 and 8 port versions.
Swampfox is registered in the
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
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