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Set up the tramline rhythm

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What a tramline rhythm is, worked out for your drill and sprayer, how to set it up on the panel by touch, and how the panel counts the bouts.

A tramline is the lane the sprayer will drive in later. You make it now, while sowing, by shutting off one or two sections on certain bouts so that nothing is sown where the sprayer wheels will go. Which bouts those are depends on the width of the drill against the width of the sprayer. That pattern, repeating across the field, is the rhythm.

How a rhythm works — an example

A 6-metre drill and an 18-metre sprayer: every third bout must carry the lane. The rhythm is three bouts long, and actuator 1 shuts its sections off on one of them.

Bout	Actuator 1	What is sown
1	shuts its sections off	All rows except the tramline rows — the lane is made.
2	open	All rows.
3	open	All rows.
1 again	shuts off	The next lane, 18 m further.

What the panel allows

Rhythms stored	Three. One is active at a time.
Actuators in one rhythm	Four. On a machine that makes tramlines by stopping dispenser motors, the motors take their place.
Cut-off bouts per actuator	Four different bouts of the same rhythm.
Bouts in a rhythm	1 to 50.

Setting it up

The tramline items sit under “Seeding machine parameters”, which needs the Agronomist level: Enable the Agronomist level. The “Tramline” item is shown only on a machine that can make tramlines.

On the home screen tap with two fingers. Tap “Settings”, and tap it again.
Tap “Seeding machine parameters”, and tap it again.
Tap “Tramline”, and tap it again.

The Tramline menu.
Tap “Tramline” and swipe right to “Yes”. Then tap “Tramline rhythm settings” twice. The rhythm form opens with rhythm 1 selected.
On “Rhythm”, swipe right or left to choose the rhythm number. Tap with two fingers and choose “Select”. The word “Active” appears beside the number — without it the rhythm is stored but not used.
Swipe down to “Bouts”, tap with two fingers and set the number of bouts in the rhythm.
Swipe to the framed cell under the activation heading and tap with two fingers. Choose the number of the actuator, then the bout on which it must shut its sections off.
If the pattern needs it, add more bouts to the same actuator — up to four — with the framed cell at the end of its row, or another actuator with the cell on the empty row below.
Tap with three fingers. The rhythm is saved and the Tramline menu returns. Tap outside the menus until the home screen returns. The tramline indicator shows the current bout and the number of bouts.

A touch and hold anywhere on the form saves the rhythm without leaving it. Return to the Operator level before you work — above it, no alarms are shown.

The rhythm form

A new rhythm: one bout, nothing shut off yet.

In the form, a swipe up or down moves between lines, a swipe right or left along a line, and a two-finger tap opens the selected cell. “Reset rhythm settings”, in the menu of the “Rhythm” line, returns the selected rhythm to its defaults.

How the bout changes

The panel counts the bouts by itself. Something on the machine must tell it that a pass has ended:

On the machine	What ends a bout
Marker sensors in the profile	At least one marker sensor under control and answering. The change of the marker position ends the bout.
No markers	The work position sensor, under control and answering. Raising the implement out of work ends the bout.
Neither	The bout does not change.

When the bout cannot change by itself, the tramline icon on the home screen is yellow (Tramline bout). Check the indicator on the home screen before you start a pass.

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