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| Monitoring the planter population should not be a requirement for being able to control the planter drives.
(At least I am 99% sure, I always have monitored population as well as controlling rate, so I'm not 100%.)
FIQ does need feedback for controlling population, and it will get that from the shaft RPM meters that are on the hydraulic drive. All you'll have to do is figure a gear ratio for the drives and enter that in setup as well as the number of tones on the RPM meter, test, calibrate and you'll be good to go.
As an example I am running a Rawson for in furrow liquid. FIQ gets a feedback signal from the Rawson drive itself, but it really has NO idea of the actual liquid rate it really is putting out, as I don't have a flowmeter in that system. It doesn't need one. I entered the calibration information, calibrated and checked that my rate was on, and I just run it.
You should be able to still monitor as you always have. | |
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trimble field iq setup on a jd ground drive planter
