VRD Machines—Configure Meter, Crop, Disk, and Rates

1. 
   A59325-UN-19FEB07

   Menu

   
   A59551-UN-08MAR07

   Planter Button

   
   A59173-UN-29JAN07

   Rates Softkey

   Select Menu >> Planter button >> Rates softkey.

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2. Use One Rate for All Motors

   • Select check box to enable all motors to use one rate.
   • Leave check box empty when different rates are used for each motor.
   
   

3. Select corn, soybeans, or one of the custom crop names.

4. Select Disk Type drop down box.

   • If planter is configured for mechanical meters, plateless meter selections appear. Select the plateless meter installed on machine.
   • If planter is configured for vacuum, types of vacuum disks appear. Select the type of disk installed in meters.
   
   

5. Select Seed Disk drop down box and select the vacuum disk used.

6. Select Show Rates button.

7. Select Change Rates button.

8. If setting different rates for each motor, select Motor drop down box to choose a motor to assign rates.

   NOTE: Each motor must have a rate set for each rate selected.

9. Select Rate drop down box and choose a rate to assign population.

10. Select Target input box and enter the target population for selected rate. High and Low population (warning) limits are automatically set to a percentage above and below the target rate. Select High and Low input boxes to manually adjust warning limits.

    IMPORTANT: Variable Rate Drive is inoperative until at least one target rate has been defined AND turned ON.

11. NOTE: Rate 6 is used for map based prescription. To enable controller to use a prescription, select the "On" drop-down box under rate 6 and from RUN screen select the Rx rate. Once selected, run page will have a small Rx indicator near the Target Seeds per Area icon.

    To see a rate on the RUN page as a choice, select On – Off drop down box and choose ON.

12. Select Enter button.

13. Average Spacing shown on the bottom of the screen is the CALCULATED distance between plants based on the row width and target population entered in monitor

Screen Area Information

Planter Rates - Planter Rates
Use One Rate for All Motors - Use One Rate for All Motors
Crop Name - Crop Name
Corn - Corn
Soybeans - Soybeans
Custom - Custom
Edit - Edit
Disk Type - Disk Type
Finger Pick-Up - Finger Pick-Up
Radial Bean - Radial Bean
Custom Plateless - Custom Plateless
Cotton - Cotton
Sorghum - Sorghum
Sunflower - Sunflower
Edible Beans - Edible Beans
Peanuts - Peanuts
Sugar Beets - Sugar Beets
Custom Vacuum - Custom Vacuum
Seed Disk - Seed Disk
Show Rates - Show Rates
Change Rates - Change Rates
Rate - Rate
Target Population - Target Population
Seeds - Seeds
ac - Acre
ha - Hectare
Target - Target
High - High
Low - Low
On - On
Off - Off
Avg. Spacing - Average Spacing