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South Central MN | Only have half of spring planting in it. Like it so far. It's nice to have the cvt and getting away from those stupid husco hydraulics. It takes some getting used to the low engine rpm, we could probably plant at 1250 if we wanted.
The armrest display electronics are vastly improved but still lag deere or case. The headland management is a massive improvement over the c1000 days. There's some information that should be displayed that just isn't available. For example, slip is hard to find, there's no engine power meter (which would be really handy while getting used to the weird torque curve for these engines), and there's no hydraulic temp gauge.
Instead, if you overheat the hydraulics a code like 01.1.68 pops up in the much smaller analog dash display, without any verbiage whatsoever as to what the code is. So, you have to dig out the manual and look it up. Then, once you acknowledge the code, it completely disappears. There's no indication whatsoever that your oil is still hot or if it's cooled down. Your only indication that it's getting too hot will be a different code that arrives along with the sudden forced shutdown of all hydraulic functions. It's a really poor system when you have a massive beautiful armrest monitor that could easily display all the needed info.
The menu system they use in the armrest controller is also not as intuitive as deere especially. there's submenus upon submenu and it gets hard to remember where everything is. I'm a big agco fan from having worked there, but deere is still the champ at user interface.
The hydraulics are the one thing that have been disappointing so far. We keep overheating them, which we'd have assumed that a dual pump tractor that can supply far more flow than what we're using should be able to cool that flow adequately. Our planter dealer thinks it's because we're currently using power beyond to run hydraulic row downforce, and so we're having to run features like the wing downforce at much higher flow rates than needed in order to stroke out the pump to get power beyond pressures high enough to run the row downforce. We're going to try moving the row downforce to it's own remote and see if that solves the problem. | |
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