What the Hectare Mini system does
The seeding control system with the Hectare Mini panel in one page — what it watches, what it drives, what it records, and who to ask.
The seeding control system with the Hectare Mini panel is made by Agriwelt GmbH. It watches sowing and fertilizing on seed drills and planters of any make, in real time, and on machines with electric dispenser motors it also drives the metering so that the set rate is applied.
The panel sits in the cab: a 320 × 240 colour screen and seven touch buttons around it — see The panel and its seven buttons. Everything else is on the machine: one sensor per seed line, and whatever the machine needs besides.
Seed
- Shows the seed flow in every seed line, live, as a column on the section diagram.
- Raises an alarm when the flow in a line falls off or stops, with the number of the line.
- Compares the seeding with the target rate the operator sets (the “Hybrid” and “Precise” modes) and raises an alarm when it deviates more than allowed.
- Counts seeds, doubles and skips at every coulter (the “Precise” mode).
- Splits the treated area into the area sown and the area not sown.
Fertilizer
- Shows the flow of dry fertilizer in every line and raises an alarm, by line number, when it falls off or stops.
- Watches liquid fertilizer lines, where the machine has them.
The machine around the seed
- Hopper level, dispenser shaft rotation, fan speed, air pressure at the fan outlet, travel speed — each against its own limits.
- Optional: the shaft speed against the travel speed, and the weight of seed applied by the dispensers.
- Working or transport position of the drill.
- The sensors of a separate fan-drive engine — oil pressure, battery charge, ignition, fuel level, air filter. They are optional and meant for drill combinations with their own diesel engine.
Driving the metering and the tramline
- On machines with electric dispenser motors: applies up to three products to the rate in kg/ha, or the seed to the rate in seeds per metre — see The rate control screen and The Motors screen.
- Makes tramlines with tramline actuators or by stopping motors — see Set up the tramline rhythm.
Speed
The travel speed comes from a wheel or radar sensor, or from the GPS receiver built into the panel. When GPS is set up, it is used while it has a valid fix, and the sensor takes over by itself when it loses the signal — see GPS reception.
Records
Detailed statistics for each field, kept over switch-off — see The Statistics screen.
Contact
Agriwelt GmbH · Hackhofergasse 1 · 1190 Wien, Austria · phone +43 664 156 4910 · info@agriwelt.com · www.agriwelt.com. This is also the address wherever this manual sends you to the technical service.
Something your machine does that this page does not answer? Write to support@agriwelt.com — an engineer answers.