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NE SD | Just not sure how this system is supposed to work. I do not have the active down force. I am in conventional till and I ran it about 125 lbs most of the year so far. It seems the downforce is usually blinking red at me on the 2630 monitor. It is either to high or to low and it seems one of the row sensors can be showing a red bar showing to much down force and another sensor can be showing too low of down force. I have 3 sensors and they are rarely all comparable. Not sure where the margin is set but I suspect this might be some of the trouble. I remember at the planter clinic this spring they said to set it so you can just "turn" the guage wheels by hand when planter in ground. I tried this at several different settings and could not tell much difference.
The other reading it gives is what I think is the weight on the guage wheel arms. This can go from too high to too low in matter of a few seconds so how could I possibly set this at one weight setting and forget it or how could any system react that fast?
One other thing I have noticed is that sometimes when I am trying to sneak through a marginally wet spot I will lift the planter slightly up to make the planter wheels take more of load and lessen the down force on the row unit. When I do this I notice that is takes a while for the 2630 to even show that I have lessened the downforce weight on the guage wheel arms.
Maybe the active downforce would be better but not sure it could react to the big and fast changes that I apparently have on my ground.
Thanks for any replies. On a side note a little bit of my corn is up and looks good and when it is all up I will report back on the promax 40s that I have now vs the esets I had on the last planter. | |
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JD pnuematic down force on 2013 planter
