Missouri | tedbear - 1/22/2017 12:52
There are actually three different Ag Leader modules that might be involved with seed, possibly more considering down force. There is the Seed Tube Monitoring Module (STTM) which is used in place of a planter monitor. Wiring harnesses are available so this module can plug right into your existing monitor wiring so the Population monitor can be removed.
There are 2 different monitor options. The monitor module needs to match the sensors. The STMM works with dickey-john type sensors, but the original equipment sensors are vansco sensors. They work with the planter monitor module (PMM). If you get the wrong one, you end up with an expensive module you can't use. The harness will tell you which ones you have. Dickey John style sensors have a individual cable for each sensor. Vansco sensors use a harness where all the sensors tie into the same 3 wires in one cable.
tedbear - 1/22/2017 12:52
With split-planter setups like yours, where there are front and rear units, Ag Leader ties the clutches together on adjacent front and rear units. So the front units don't shut off first and then the rear units a bit later. They cycle together within each section. This does produce some gaps as you mention. The general procedure is to set the hitch distance at a distance halfway between the front/rear offset. That way the front's plant into the headland a bit before they shut off and the rears shut off a bit early. This doesn't seem to cause much concern as here that is generally done only with soybeans where the lodging/saving of seed issue isn't quite as great as for corn.
This effect can be mitigated by adjusting the look ahead values for your bean configuration. When I have dialed in look-ahead numbers that give good results with the rear rows only, taking that number and adding a tenth to the turn on look ahead, and taking a tenth off the turn off look ahead is usually enough to give total coverage on both the front and rear ranks.
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Kinze 3500, AL Insight and variable rate for beans
