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Stay on the Safe Side with the Amazone Safety Kit

Michele Catinari — Fri, 04 Feb 2022 18:00:08 +0000

Certified, durable, and always close to hand: personal protective equipment for handling plant protection agents in a handy Safety Kit case from Amazone.

Whether it’s mixing spray agents, monitoring application results in the field, or cleaning off the spray boom – plant protection measures come with a risk to health for the operator. Skin, eyes, airways, and mucous membranes can be damaged by direct contact with active ingredients or by breathing in vapors and gases. With the new Safety Kit, Amazone offers essential protection to prevent these health risks. The safe, comfortable operation of Amazone machinery, and a high degree of safety when working with plant protection agents are of high importance to Amazone.

The personal protective equipment kit consists of protective gloves, a sleeved apron, safety glasses, and a respirator with an active filter, as well as an eye rinsing bottle and disinfectant. All items in the Safety Kit are DIN or EN certified and can be safely stored in the accompanying Safety Kit case.

The certified sleeved apron with fastening at the back is particularly useful as the durable, robust item is quick to put on and take off. When worn with long-sleeved work clothing, it protects the majority of the upper body, arms, and legs.

The Amazone Safety Kit is available in sizes M and XL for a price of 195.00 EUR plus VAT. The kit can not only be conveniently ordered with a new Amazone crop protection sprayer but can also be purchased separately from the local dealer.

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Aceinna Launches OpenRTK330LI EVK

Michele Catinari — Thu, 07 Jan 2021 17:00:04 +0000

Development Kit for the Industry’s Most Compact RTK INS Solution with an Embedded Precision IMU

Aceinna announced the general market availability of Aceinna OpenRTK330LI EVK, a complete evaluation, and a development kit for the OpenRTK330LI GNSS/INS module. The OpenRTK330LI EVK accelerates development and reduces time to market of custom navigation and guidance systems fusing inertial measurements and multi-band RTK/GNSS positioning.

The OpenIMU330LI Module is a very compact, low cost, state-of-the-art, high-performance RTK/GNSS receiver with built-in triple-redundant inertial sensors. The development kits are available for purchase directly through Aceinna or at one of Aceinna’s authorized Distributors.

Instead of wasting time building and debugging prototype hardware and firmware, Aceinna ’s OpenRTK330LI EVK provides the essential hardware, firmware, and development environment that engineers working on autonomous applications need to quickly start developing algorithms and solutions. Within minutes of receiving the OpenRTK330LI EVK, engineers can be logging and visualizing positioning data with centimeter precision.

Development of custom positioning and localization solutions with the OpenRTK330LI is supported by Aceinna Navigation Studio, and MS VS-Code by installing the free Aceinna extension. Customers can use Aceinna ’s position engine or develop and implement their own in the open-source framework. Source code and libraries for the OpenRTK330LI module are available on GitHub.

At the heart of Aceinna ’s OpenRTK330LI EVK is the OpenRTK330LI Evaluation board (EVB). The EVB provides built-in RJ45 Ethernet, Micro-USB, Bluetooth, SWD/JTAG Interface, SPI, UART, CAN, SMA, power, and 1PPS out connections, simplifying access to the OpenRTK330LI module installed on the EVB, and enabling quick and convenient connection to a PC and access to RTK correction data via the internet. The OpenRTK330Li EVK can monitor all major global constellations (GPS, GLONASS, BeiDou, Galileo, QZSS) and simultaneously track up to 80 channels.

In addition to the EVB, the kit includes a GNSS antenna, ST-Link/v2 debugger, 12 V Supply, USB Cable, and for customers in the continental USA, a complimentary 30-day subscription to Aceinna OpenARC correction service. OpenARC is Aceinna ’s precise positioning platform that provides secure GNSS corrections powered by a dense RTK network and cloud-based architecture.

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Drop Tube Kit is Available for AGCO RoGator AirMax Precision R1/R2

Marco Pinza — Fri, 17 Jul 2020 19:00:47 +0000

Precise between-row application of late-season dry fertilizer and cover crop seeding in standing row crops.

AGCO Corporation now offers a drop tube kit for the RoGator AirMax Precision R1/R2 application system to ensure accurate between-row application of in-season dry granular fertilizer and precise seeding of cover crops into standing row crops.

“The new drop tubes expand the versatility of the AirMax Precision R1/R2, already the most accurate pneumatic fertilizer system in the industry,”

says David Fickel, tactical marketing manager for application equipment at AGCO.

“Now operators can place granular fertilizer between the rows in-season to feed the crop. This allows operators to follow the 4R’s of nutrient stewardship: the right rate, the right source, the right place, and the right time.”

The tubes direct fertilizer granules below the crop canopy so nutrients don’t get caught in the crop whorls and are able to reach the ground, where they can move into the soil and be taken up by the plant. Air delivers the fertilizer to, and down, the drop tubes, distributing the granules slightly on contact with the soil for optimum distribution and more uniform crop uptake.

Convenient cover-crop seeding plus fertilizer at precise rates

The AirMax Precision system has always been well-suited for broadcast seeding oats, grasses and various cover crops. Now, with the addition of drop tubes, combined with the AirMax R2 independently metered twin bins, operators can seed cover crops between the rows of growing crop and top-dress late-season urea at the same time without blending. For example, it’s possible to apply urea at 150 pounds per acre and seed a low rate of 20 pounds per acre of cover crop in the same pass, thanks to the industry-exclusive UltraSpread low-speed, high-torque radial piston hydraulic motors of the AirMax.

The ability of the UltraSpread motors to control high, low and variable rates accurately comes from the control algorithms that are fed by sensors that provide almost 250% more feedback than previous or competitive systems. This advantage allows the AirMax Precision to adjust more frequently, providing greater overall rate control accuracy and enabling the low-rate conveyor speed needed for precise cover-crop seeding rates. Some customers have reported the ability to set and hold application rates even lower than 20 pounds/acre.

Easy to attach

Available to order through AGCO dealers this fall as an aftermarket kit from AGCO Parts, the drop tubes replace the standard nozzles and attach quickly to the AirMax boom with two clamps. The top and mid-sections of these 3-inch-diameter tubes are smooth, long-lasting grade 304 stainless steel to ensure between-row placement. Flexible tubing connects the two steel sections to allow the tubes to always point toward the ground, while an additional hose section at the bottom is gentle on plants. The kit includes tubes for all 28 outlets, which are spaced at 30 inches off-center across the 70-foot boom. Hydraulic tilt switches on the joystick raise and lower the boom tips as needed to adjust the drop tube position as terrain height changes.

Unprecedented application accuracy

Drop tubes are the latest offering from AGCO to provide unprecedented application accuracy, giving growers the greatest return on their investment in late-season crop nutrients. The AirMax Precision R1/R2 can apply from 20 to 850 pounds of material per acre at 10 mph, with less than 5% variation in rate across the entire width of the boom. TurnLogic turn compensation offers an added level of accuracy and precision placement on headlands and contours. Built for reliability and longer machine life, the AirMax Precision features a stainless steel box, boom and hardware, as well as Heresite^® hydraulic cooler coating that resists rust and prevents corrosion in the harsh dry fertilizer environment.

Source: AGCO

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