Near Intersection of I-35 & I-90 Southern Mn. | Pofarmer - 2/3/2026 10:44
EZ Boom was for the EZ Guide 500's. IMHO it worked really good as a basic controller. If you put a flow meter on there, you could get a section and rate control module and the correct harnesses and basically automate the sprayer.
The EZ Boom was the rate and section control module that worked with the EZ Guide 500. It could be setup to "do it all" or do just do section control while a Raven 440/450 did the rate control. A flow meter, control valve, section valves and GPS were usually used as inputs to the 440 or EZBoom. EZ Boom was actually built by Ag Leader back when Ag Leader and Trimble had some mutually beneficial arrangements with each other. The small screen on the EZ-Guide was a limiting factor.
Ag Leaders Liquid Product Control Module and a switch box arrangement which only works with their displays could "do it all" or just do section control and mapping. Some other system could handle rate control. Having another system handle rate control was necessary in some installations such as the Deere 4720 that I owned at one time.
With a Deere 4720, the original brown box handled the rate control portion. The Deere section switches were rewired to become inputs to the Ag Leader's Auxiliary Input module. The outputs from Ag Leaders Liquid Product control module turned the section valves ON/OFF thus allowing auto swath to be in the middle of things and shut the sections off for you. The output from the Deere flow meter was teed off to feed the Ag Leader Liquid Product control module as well as the original system. The control ports out of the Liquid Product control module which would often control the rate were not connected to anything as the brown box was still handling rate control as before. The same target rate was entered into both systems.
If the applied rate did not match the target rate both systems would attempt to correct. Since only the brown box was connected to control the pump speed it did the actual adjusting. The Ag Leader control ports were "trying" but were not connected to anything. If the applied rate did not closely agree with the target rate, both systems would sound their alarms. Once the applied rate closely agreed with the target rate both systems quit alarming.
This was a method to add auto swath and mapping to the Deere sprayer. It may sound complicated to run with two systems but really worked quite well. Now that I have a Hagie sprayer, I have the Ag Leader system do both rate control and section control
Edited by tedbear 2/4/2026 10:28
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