10 September 2015, 14:55
Professional farmers expect state-of-the-art fertiliser spreaders to precisely and safely spread various spreading materials - from granulated fertilisers to fine and prilled materials, from snail granules to fine seeds.
Even if the working width is constant, several different spreading discs may be required in order to make optimum use of the entire performance potential of a fertiliser spreader. Farmers increasingly share one hightech fertiliser spreader and adjust the working width due to different track systems using the corresponding spreading discs. Agricultural contractors need to fulfil comparable requirements. This is a common source of errors: Unintentional spreading using the wrong pair of spreading discs.
The new RAUCH DISCAN system fully automatically compares the fertiliser chart of the spreader stored in the CCI-100-ISOBUS universal terminal to the spreading discs. The intelligent software immediately detects if the selected spreading disc is appropriate for the planned application. If the chosen spreading material or the working width is not suitable for the application window, a warning is displayed on the operating terminal after a short time. If the left and right spreading disc were swapped, DISCAN also intervenes. In this way, costly spreading errors or wrong metering is avoided from the start if the spreading disc-dependent EMC automatic metering system is used.
Any information on the spreading discs is stored on the 8 byte DISCAN tag at the bottom of the spreading disc. The disc data are directly transferred to the connected operating terminal by a read head at the spreader transmission and processed.
DISCAN is a robust, contact-free data exchange system in industrial quality which is technically perfectly adapted to the rough environmental conditions in the spreading range of a twin-disc spreader. With DISCAN, RAUCH consequently continues the path to an intelligent, self-adjusting fertiliser spreader.
Source: RAUCH Landmaschinenfabrik Gmb