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Coles County, Illinois | There's a lot of advantages to a painting or coverage map style guidance unit, if one connects the boom switch to the painting enable wire, It's like one has poured a dye in the chemical tank. You can look at the screen and see everywhere you've sprayed. That is very handy when one comes back to the field after a refill. You can tell right where you quit. Another feature is that it gives you a display of acres sprayed in a field. Last spring I had a pressure gauge start reading 8 psi too high. After spraying 10 acres, I knew I wasn't applying enough product as I hadn't sprayed 10 acres of material by looking at the volume left in the tank. Another feature of my Raven displays is boundary mapping. When I spray the first thing I do is spray around the perimeter. By using the boundary mapping feature I how many acres are in the field very accurately. I have a field that I always called 35 acres that is really 30.8. Another advantage is having an accurate speed readout.
I've been spraying since the mid seventies and and started spraying 2,4 d by counting rows. I've had several different foamers and a simple lightbar. All the money I spent on those seems like a waste when compared to a painting guidance unit. My vote for an entry level system is Raven's Cruizer II with a helix antenna.
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