Snowy River Rampage Maintenance

How the ride was checked and started each morning, in the words of a member of the maintenance team who programmed its control system:

We use to inspect the ride first up,. IE walk the channel to ensure all the weir boards were still in place. Check the vertical conveyors and then start the pumps. Then we would inspect all the boats and check air pressures, then hand it over to the operators. The main controls were to stop and start the turn table. the boat spacing was controlled by the PLC and the VSD running the conveyors, the operators could speed the turn table up if they had large gaps between boats or slow it down if boats were space too closely. And of course they had Estops.

I’m not sure if the water geysers were still operational but when we set them up I programmed two modes into the PLC, wet mode for summer and dry mode for winter. Wet mode was just that, YOU WILL GET WET. I still remeber when we commissioned the geysers, we had some of the office people to be the first round, and they got wet.