Reference
Terms
The words this manual uses for gestures, rates, control, sensors, tramlines and devices — what each means on the Hectare 5.
Gestures
| Term | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Tap | One finger, touch and lift at once. |
| Touch and hold | One finger kept on one spot for more than half a second. |
| Long swipe | A stroke of one finger across more than a third of the screen. It moves between the working screens. |
| Two-finger tap | One tap with two fingers at once. On the home screen it opens the main menu. |
All gestures: Touch zones and gestures.
Rates and control
| Term | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Rate | The target intensity the operator sets. The panel compares the actual intensity against it and reports a deviation that is too large. |
| Rate error | How far the actual intensity may stand from the rate before that becomes an alarm. Set per sensor group, in per cent (“Rate error,%”). For products by weight and the pump the setting is “Product rate error,%”. |
| Product application control | The panel does not judge the sowing at every moment: it starts watching once the conditions are met — the implement is lowered and moving. Until then a silent section is not a fault. |
| Alarm level | In the “Flow” mode, the lowest intensity still counted as normal — the control line of the diagram. Below it the section is reported, whatever the neighbours do. See The section diagram. |
| Path interval | The stretch of the run over which skips, doubles and the other figures are gathered before they are redrawn. Set by “Recalculation,m”, which the panel renames “Recalculation,sec” when the seeding mode counts in seconds instead of metres. |
| Share of sowing rows | The share of rows that must sow for the panel to decide that the machine is seeding — “Percent of sowing,%”, 20 % by default. |
| Manual lock | Stopping all product application by hand, with a touch and hold on an empty place of the right-hand column of the home screen. A yellow hand shows the lock is on. See Lock product application by hand. |
| Control (of a sensor) | Whether the panel watches a sensor. A sensor out of control is shown with ! and reports nothing. See Take a sensor into or out of control. |
| Imitation | A simulated travel speed, set in the speed sensor, used when the speed sensor has failed. See Work without the speed sensor. |
Seeding control modes
| Mode | Meaning |
|---|---|
| “Precise” | Seeds per metre, with skips and doubles — row-crop planters. |
| “Flow” | Seeds per second against an alarm level — grain drills. |
| “Hybrid” | Seeds per metre, with a rate error as in “Precise”; the alarm level can be set automatically as in “Flow”. |
Sensors
| Term | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Section control sensor | The common name for a seed, dry fertilizer or liquid fertilizer sensor. One per section of the implement. |
| Seed sensor | Counts the seed passing one section. On a row-crop planter it also separates doubles and skips; on a grain drill it measures intensity only — the seeds arrive too close together to be told apart. |
| Dry fertilizer sensor | The same device, watching a granular fertilizer line. |
| Liquid fertilizer sensor | A flow meter counting the volume through one section. |
| Speed sensor | Measures the travel speed. Distance, area and every rate are calculated from it. On the Hectare 5 the speed can also come from the built-in GPS receiver. |
| Dispenser sensor | Watches that the dispenser shaft turns. |
| Fan sensor | Watches the fan speed against a set minimum and maximum. |
| Pressure sensor | Watches positive pressure or vacuum, depending on how it is plumbed. |
| Hopper sensor | Reports when the product has fallen below the point where the sensor sits. |
| Work position sensor | Tells the panel whether the implement is lowered into work or raised for transport. |
| Marker sensors | Report which mechanical marker is down, so that the tramline bout can advance by itself. |
Tramline
| Term | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Tramline | A driving lane left unsown, made by shutting off one or several sections on chosen bouts. |
| Rhythm | The repeating sequence of bouts, with the bouts marked on which particular sections must not sow. See Set up the tramline rhythm. |
| Bout | One pass of the implement across the field. The rhythm counts them and returns to the first when it runs out. |
| Tramline actuator | The device that shuts the sections off. A machine can have up to four. |
Devices
| Term | Meaning |
|---|---|
| HUB8 (input device; in the menus “Concentrator-8”) | An eight-channel hub for sensors that have no controller of their own. It watches them and reports each to the panel as if it were a device. |
| Electric motor controller | Drives one or two dispenser motors, or the liquid fertilizer pump. |
| microSD | The memory card, for reports. |
| Profile | The list of what the machine carries. The panel draws its screens from it. See Profile. |
Access levels
| Level | What it is for |
|---|---|
| “Operator” | The level the panel starts at after every power-on. Everyday work. Only at this level are alarm windows shown. |
| “Agronomist” | The commissioning settings, the machine profile and the address set-up of the devices. Needs a PIN. |
| “Service” | The reset items and the service settings. Used by the service department; needs its own PIN. |
The level is chosen in “Settings” → “User”. Details: Access levels.
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