Illinois Steve - 5/17/2017 17:49

I'm not denying your skill set or trying to detract from your little project. My point was that while it is impressive it is not practical for most people to do something like this or deal with maintaining and supporting it. I'm sorry if I offended you but if it is $400 a row for your system or $1000 a row for a commercial system with known reliability and plenty of tech support and parts availability it makes the commercials system seem very affordable. As a long term investment $1000 a row is nothing. That's $24,000 a row on a 24 row planter versus $9600 for your system. That savings of $14,000 amortized over 10 years is a whopping $1400 a year. For me that is a better investment than using an unknown and unproven system that could cost me valuable down time and possibly inferior results. My V-drives are on their fourth year with zero, motor, seed unit, harness, of monitor issues. Check back with me in four years and let me know how many hours you have wrapped up in design, redesign, trouble shooting, retrofitting, and on and on. There is a reason those other systems cost what they do. Now you sound like the kind of guy who can build just about anything and make it work. That is great. It is a true talent. I am just saying that at the end of the day your system might not be as cheap as you think it is.