What the Hectare 5 system does

The seeding control system with the Hectare 5 panel in one page — what it watches, what it drives, and what it records.

The seeding control system with the Hectare 5 panel watches sowing and the application of dry and liquid fertilizer on seed drills and planters. Where the machine has dispenser electric motors or a liquid fertilizer pump, it also drives them, so that the set rate is actually applied.

The panel sits in the cab and is operated with the fingers on its screen — it has no buttons. Everything else is on the implement: one seed sensor per section, and whatever the machine needs besides. What your machine carries is entered in the profile; the screens show exactly that.

Seed

• Applies seed to the rate the operator sets, through the dispenser electric motors.
• Watches the actual sowing against that rate and reports a section that falls behind.
• Reports a blocked or empty tube by its number.
• Counts seeds, doubles and skips in the “Precise” mode — on row-crop planters.

Dry and liquid fertilizer

• Applies liquid fertilizer to the rate through the electric pump.
• Watches dry and liquid lines and reports a section that falls behind or blocks, by number.

The machine around the product

• Hopper level, dispenser shaft rotation, fan speed, air pressure or vacuum, travel speed — each against its own limits.
• The sensors of an autonomous fan-drive engine: oil pressure, battery charge, ignition, fuel level, air filter.
• Working or transport position of the implement, and the markers.

Tramline

• Creates the tramline with actuators or by stopping dispenser motors.
• Advances the bout by itself from the marker sensors or the work position sensor.
• Keeps watching the sections that are shut off, so that a section sowing into the tramline is still reported.

Speed from the built-in GPS receiver

The panel has a GPS receiver of its own. It can take the travel speed from the satellites instead of a wheel sensor, and it shows how many satellites it sees. See GPS.

Records

• Treated area, split into sown, not sown and unknown.
• Detailed statistics of the work, kept for five fields.
• Reports written to the memory card.

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