Near Intersection of I-35 & I-90 Southern Mn. | Yes, the Insight can log varieties as well as another liquid or dry product. This requires the mult-product unlock. The configuration for this type of situation consists in a sense of the planting part and the application part.
First go to the Planting tab and setup a site verification planting scenario, after a few steps you will see a box that allows you to add to this setup. At that point you add in either the liquid or dry setup. After that step a name is suggested for that subconfiguration and you are allowed to again Add more items. Depending on the equipment available you might add more or finish. The final step is where the entire configuration consisting of the various parts is named.
When you go to the RUN screen, you would pick, the field, configuration etc. as usual. You would be presented with a product selection screen which might have a couple of choices for the varieties (if split planter was elected) and a choice for the liquid or dry product. The liquid or dry product would need to be created under the Application Tab's Product tab.
This liquid or dry product could just be monitored by the serial app rate module or actually controlled by Direct Command.
When building these more complex configurations, it is useful to think of the products (seed, fertilizer, herbicide, insecticide) as being applied one at a time from the front of the implement to the back. This helps avoid confusion.
We have a customer who is using an Insight with an App Rate Module and a D.C. liquid module to run a Gandy Insecticide rig. In this case, he is logging/mapping the seed varieties, monitoring/logging/mapping the rate of starter fertilizer delivered by a ground driven piston pump and controlling/monitoring/mapping with a Gandy unit for insecticide
This does actually work but he has to lie to the system and tell it that the Dry Insecticide is really a liquid product. This can cause some confusion since the Dry product has to be defined as if it were liquid which confuses the units of measure. Also the liquid module does not incorporate the various shaft alarms etc that would be useful. We did this last year before a dry module was available plus the customer wanted to use the DC liquid with a sprayer later in the season. There would be some issues in running the Gandy with a dry module anyway.
I've even heard of another guy who uses a Direct Command Liquid module with a hyd control valve and orbit motor to actually run the planter seed shaft to deliver the seed and thus have VR capability. He has to do a bit of lying also. I guess part of the lying is telling the system that the liquid product is actually seed corn.
Edited by tedbear 4/9/2007 00:17
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Insight split planter with different number of rows each side
