The screens

Indicators of the home screen

ReferenceHectare 5 firmware · 1.0.20Draft

Every indicator of the home screen with all its states — what you see, what it means, what to do.

Where each indicator sits is shown in The home screen. This page says what each one means, state by state. Touch and hold any indicator to open the context menu of its device.

How to read any indicator

Almost every indicator follows the same rule. Learn it once and you can read an indicator you have never seen.

What you see	What it means
Green icon	Normal. The device answers and its value is inside the limits.
Red icon, blinking	Alarm. The device answers, but the value has left the limits. An alarm window follows after the alarm delay.
Icon alternating with a red ×	No answer from the device. The value is shown as XXXX.
Icon alternating with a white [!]	The device is in the profile, but its control is switched off. The value is shown as !!!!.
Icon alternating with a red ?	A device of the wrong kind answers in its place. The value is shown as ????.
Yellow icon	Not a fault. A state you have chosen or that needs your attention: implement raised, markers up, ignition off, application locked by hand.

Speed

The travel speed in km/h, large, at the top left. Messages about the speed replace the figure and blink about once a second, so that the figure stays readable.

What you see	What it means
A number in white, e.g. 10.0	Normal.
“SLOWER” on red	You drive faster than the maximum set for the speed sensor. Slow down.
“FASTER” on red	You drive slower than the minimum. Speed up.
XX.X in red, blinking	No answer from the device that carries the speed sensor.
???? in red	A device of the wrong kind answers in place of the speed sensor.
!!.! in white	The speed sensor is not under control.
A yellow number alternating with “IMITATION”	The speed is simulated from the setting of the speed sensor, not measured. See Work without the speed sensor.
INCREASE IMITATION / DECREASE IMITATION	The simulated speed itself is outside the permitted range. Change the setting, not the travel speed.
“Sensor” with a number	One of two speed sensors has failed.
“Settings”	The minimum and the maximum speed contradict each other.

“SLOWER” and “FASTER” are not alarm windows. They stay in the speed field for as long as the speed is wrong, because you have to see them while correcting it. Speed from the built-in receiver: GPS.

Clock

The clock slot at the top right is shared by several messages.

What you see	What it means
The time in white	Normal.
BAT in red, for about a second in every four	The clock battery is low. The clock still runs; between the flashes the time is shown in red. Have the battery replaced.
XX:XX in red, blinking	The clock chip does not answer. Everything the panel records carries a wrong date and time.
IMITAT in yellow	The imitation mode of the service menu is on.
Blue hours:minutes, then TRIAL, then blank	A trial period is running; the blue figure is the time left.

The clock is set in “Settings” → “Change Date&Time”: tap each line and swipe it to its value, then tap “Set” twice — once to select it, once to store the time. Leaving without “Set” keeps the old time.

Memory card

A card symbol next to the clock, or in the right-hand column. Shown while a microSD card is in the slot and ready to be written to.

Hopper

A full green hopper is normal. An empty red one, blinking, means the level has fallen below the sensor: refill.

Metering unit

The rotation of the dispenser shaft. While the shaft turns, the icon turns — the fastest way to see that the metering unit really runs. Red means no rotation, or not the speed required.

Fan

The fan speed in revolutions per minute (rpm). Green is normal; red — above the maximum or below the minimum.

Pressure

The vacuum or the positive air pressure in the distribution system, in kPa. Green is normal; red — outside the permitted range.

Engine sensors

The sensors of the engine that drives the fan.

Indicator	Green	Red or yellow
Oil pressure	Normal	Red: the oil pressure has fallen below the permitted level.
Battery charge	Normal	Red: the battery is not being charged.
Ignition	Green key: ignition on	Yellow key: ignition off. Not a fault, and never an alarm window.
Fuel level	Normal	Red: little fuel left in the tank.
Air filter	Normal	Red: the air filter is clogged; clean or replace it.

Area

The area treated on the active field, in hectares.

Population

In the “Precise” mode: the actual seeding rate in thousands of seeds per hectare.

Product rate by weight

Shown when products are applied by weight; one indicator per product, with its number. It shows one figure, in kg/ha.

What you see	What it means
Icon green, figure white	Normal. While the actual rate stays inside the permitted deviation, the figure shown is the target.
Icon red, blinking	The actual rate is outside the permitted deviation from the target.
Field lit	You have just set the target.

To set the target, touch and hold the indicator. The number pad opens with the caption Product and its number; type the rate, 10.0 to 500.0 kg/ha, and touch “OK”.

Dosing by weight is not possible

A red blinking product icon in the right-hand column. The panel has worked out that the target cannot be held at any travel speed: the lowest speed at which the metering rollers can deliver the rate is already at or above the highest.

What to do. Check the target rates first — one product asking too much closes the window for all of them. Then check the metering rollers. The speed limits the panel calculated are on the “Information” screen of the speed sensor.

Markers

What you see	What it means
Green, both arms down	Both markers are lowered.
Green, one arm down	Only that marker is lowered.
Yellow, both arms up	Both markers are raised. On a machine that changes the tramline bout by the markers, the bout changes now.

A machine with one marker has one icon that shows that marker down or up.

Implement position

Green — lowered, in work. Yellow, blinking — raised, in transport, not applying.

Tramline bout

Shown only if the tramline is switched on. The large number is the current bout, the small one above it the number of bouts in the rhythm.

What you see	What it means
Tramline icon grey	The bout changes by itself at the end of every pass.
Tramline icon yellow	The bout does not change by itself: the machine has no marker or work position sensor that answers and is under control.
A yellow symbol blinking in place of the icon	The bout could change by itself, but automatic change is switched off.

How the bout is counted: Set up the tramline rhythm.

Manual lock

A yellow hand, blinking, in the right-hand column: product application is locked by hand. The machine applies nothing, however it moves. Not shown while application is allowed. It appears on machines with dispenser electric motors or a liquid fertilizer pump. See Lock product application by hand.

Actuator failure

One icon for all electric motors and tramline actuators together, in the right-hand column. Not shown at all while everything is in order.

What you see	What it means
Red, blinking	At least one motor or actuator is in an alarm state.
Alternating with white [!]	The control of at least one actuator is switched off.

Which one and why is on the Motors screen.

Liquid fertilizer pump

Indicator	What it shows
Rate	In L/min when the machine has liquid section sensors, otherwise in L/Ha. Green, red, × and [!] as usual. While the rate stays inside the permitted deviation, the figure shown is the target.
Load, %	How hard the pump works. Yellow at 99 % and above: the pump is at its limit — drive slower, or the rate falls below the target. ---- blinking red: the controller gives no load figure.
Pressure, Bar	Only if the pressure sensor is switched on in the pump settings. Red: the liquid pressure is too high. ---- blinking red: the pressure sensor is broken or gives no reading.

Something your machine does that this page does not answer? Write to support@agriwelt.com — an engineer answers.