{"id":28491,"date":"2019-03-07T05:43:13","date_gmt":"2019-03-06T19:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=28491"},"modified":"2019-03-07T06:31:16","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T20:01:16","slug":"mount-frankland-solar-mb0965","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/mount-frankland-solar-mb0965\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar And Battery Upgrade For Mount Frankland Communications Tower"},"content":{"rendered":"
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After 20 years of service in what were probably at times pretty harsh conditions, the solar panels and batteries at Western Power’s communications tower at Mount Frankland needed replacing . It wasn’t an easy task.<\/p>\n

Situated in the Walpole Region of Western Australia, Mount Frankland is big lump of granite topping out at 411 metres 1<\/a><\/sup>. It’s one of the highest points in Western Power’s telecommunications network and there’s no vehicle access to the summit.<\/p>\n

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Two lucky Western Power telecommunications technicians and two riggers were appointed the task of hoofing it to the summit to dismantle the existing equipment and install the new solar panels and batteries. Western Power used the term “to scale the summit”, which makes the ascent sound quite dramatic, but it turns out there’s a short (but steep) sealed path that runs halfway to the top – and then stairs.<\/p>\n

Anyway, thankfully the workers weren’t also made to carry the gear, which weighed more than 300 kilograms. That was loaded into a cargo net and transported to the site via helicopter, which also picked up the old equipment.<\/p>\n