Reference

Terms

ReferenceHectare One firmware · 1.2.3

The words this manual uses for rates, control, sensors, tramlines and devices — what each means on the Hectare One.

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,%”).
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.
Minimum alarm rate	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.
Manual lock	Stopping all product application by hand, with a long press of “HOME”. A yellow hand on the home screen shows the lock is on. See Lock 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.

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”.

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.
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.

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. One actuator controller carries three things: the actuator itself and both marker sensors.

Term	Meaning
HUB8 (input device)	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. Motors and pump share one controller design — which is why a machine cannot have a pump without also having the controller a motor would use.
SCM	Section Control Module — the interface through which a third-party navigation system can shut sections off.
microSD	The memory card, for reports, profiles and firmware updates. FAT16 or FAT32 only.
Profile	The list of what the machine carries. The panel draws its screens from it. See Profile.

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 and resetting the statistics. Needs a PIN, which is different for every panel and is given in the device passport.
Service	The profile, the readdressing of devices, the “Reset to defaults” items. Used by the service department.

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