Near Intersection of I-35 & I-90 Southern Mn. | If you are using an Ag Leader Hydraulic Drive module with an Ag Leader display it is possible with a bit of trickery.
First the Display must have the multi-product unlock. This unlock is needed for any situation where you wish to work with more than one product at the same time. Some might argue that two varieties of corn should only be considered one product but the system considers two varieties of seed as two different products. The Multi-product unlock is required with more than one variety of seed or a seed variety and spray control etc.
The configuration will then allow split planter mapping but only if you tell the system you have two drives. If you really did have two drives there would be a plug in the hydraulic module for each drive. Each "side" would have an input from its seed shaft sensor to inform the system how fast that side is turning and an output to the hydraulic drive to control that shaft speed. With two drives, the population of each side can be the same or different.
Since you really only have one drive, there will be no input to the second channel and the system will show an alarm as it is expecting seed shaft information so it can control that second drive. The trick is a jumper tee which splits off the seed shaft speed information to feed both the left or first channel and the second channel.. The output from the second channel is not connected since there is no second seed shaft hydraulic valve anyway. The whole purpose of the tee is to keep the system from alarming.
In operation, the operator is asked to enter in the target seed rate which would be the desired rate for the actual drive and the same rate for the phantom drive. Reports will indicate the population for the phantom side as if there was one but the results will be the same as the actual drive.
This might seem to be the long way around but I believe it to be necessary to fool the system in allowing split varieties with a single hydraulic drive.
With ground drive such as we still use, split planter is no problem since the Ag Leader is not involved with the target rate of the seed planting. We do need the multi-product unlock which we already had for other purposes.
Edited by tedbear 12/21/2024 12:03
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