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East Central, Nebraska | i replied to the same question you had on facebook but i will reply here also.
as tedbear stated you could monitor the downforce on the ag leader system. i also did this years ago. as i have told the story on here before. i had downforce springs which i obviously could not change on the go but wanted to see how bad of a job it was doing which would in turn convince me to get an active system in the future. i pulled into the field and went a few hundred feet and could see how bad it was doing and got out and changed the spring pressure and it a pretty good job after that. the system to monitor the downforce was a bit expensive at the time but i ran it for years after. shortly after buying the sytem i sourced a used precision planting system and used it to control the air bags on the go. i also ran the agleader system beside the precision planting system to map in the ag leader system for 4 or so years. last year i upgraded to hydraulic downforce.
point of all this being, i get the value of a down force system that changes as conditions warrant on its own. i very rarely endorse a precision planting system but a used gen1 system and air force compressor could possibly cost you less than what the ag leader equipment that only monitors the downforce would cost. pre covid gen1 monitors were sub $500, and i would assume are likely getting back there. The used ag leader weigh pins, downforce module and wiring used i sold for $1200. the wiring was the expensive part in that deal. not telling you what to do but that system works fairly well for putting your downforce exactly where you need it.
in your message and facebook post you ask about monitoring the pressure, i believe the old kpm systems did that but in reality running a poly quarter inch hose into the cab and having a guage there beside you makes more sense than running through the ag leader monitor. really what does pressure tell you anyhow? high or low pressure doesn't tell you what the row unit needs.
Edited by caseihfarmer 1/13/2025 20:32
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