Spray Application GROWNOTES™: Auto boom height systems

Name: Spray Application GROWNOTES™: Auto boom height systems
Uploaded: 2017-03-02T07:18:03+00:00
Duration: 40 s
Channel: Gerri the NVT Guru
Description: Gerri the NVT Guru shows how incorrect sensor placement on auto boom height systems causes false readings. The sensor was picking up steel on the boom…

2 Mar 2017 · 1 min

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Gerri the NVT Guru shows how incorrect sensor placement on auto boom height systems causes false readings. The sensor was picking up steel on the boom itself instead of measuring distance to the ground. Moving the sensor to the correct position per the manual fixed the problem.

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Auto boom heights are great, but they're only as good as the setup in this particular one. The sensor was located far too close back here, and the beam was actually picking up on the steel here and giving us a false reading. We had to redesign this whole bracket to get the sensor out a certain distance, as per the manual, and also we had to get it high enough, the correct distance from the bottom of the nozzle to the sensor. Once we did all that, this thing worked beautiful. One of the big challenges was we had to make a bracket that when you folded the boom, that it didn't foul up the.