FARMNAVIGATOR MANUAL
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2.2.3 Measure a field and position soilsamples / obstacles: 12 2.3.1 Edit and export field data 16

1. Scope of delivery and mounting Included into delivery: • Farmnavigator • 220 V charger • 12 V carger • GPS receiver • Extensioncable for GPS receiver • Carholder with Suctioncup • Magnetmount • USB cable The Farmnavigator: I/O Serial connector ^ USB connector Audio out £ 220V power connector (i) Standby Connector for Magnetholder Sensor for automatic brightness control

Mounting: 1. Connect the the magnetholder with the carholder . 2. Mount the magnetic carmount on the windshield of your farmmachine. Please reassure that the windshield is free from grease and wet the suctioncup to improve the adhesion (pic. 1) 3. Connect the 12V power cable to the connector at the magnetic mount (pic. 1 red circle), and then to the cigarette lighter plug in your vehicle. (pic. 2) 4. Connect the extensioncable of the GPS antenna to the 9 Pin Connector at the magnetic mount (pic. 1 blue circle)

5. Connect the extension cable with the screwcoupling to the GPS antenna (pic.3 blue circle) and mount the antenna above the steering axle. If the hood of your farmmachine is not made of magnetic material (plastic or aluminium etc.) you can mount a metalplate or a washer on your hood with f. e. hot glue. (pic. 3) (Abb. 3) 6. Now you can put the Farmnavigator in the magnetic mount and start working (Abb. 4) ATTENTION: Never remove the SD Card while the software is running. Even if the device has been sent to stand by mode, software is still running in the background. Always quit the software...

2. The Farmnavigator To use the farmnavigator function open the navigation software. Go to the main menu and click the farmnavigator button in the upper right corner. iPod Steuerung Meine Daten 2.1 Farmnavigator menu In the upcoming Screen you find these Buttons: 2.1.1 Fields: Press this Button to enter the fields database, which contains detailed information for each field. Here you can creat a new field or open a saved field, to continue already started work. 2.1.2 Spray Boom: Click this Button to make / change the settings for the virtual boomswitch commander. Here you can set the number...

The virtual spray boom commander When spreading chemicals on a field it is very important to control the amount of spreaded chemicals. To allow this control, your sprayer can be created virtually in the Farmnavigator software, with sections and number of nozzles, so that farmnavigator can support you bei switching the different sections on and off. To activate this function press the Button Boom On Now you can set the number of sections and the width of each Nozzle using the arrow Buttons The Sections are displayed by numbered squares. You can select each section and change the specific...

if the virtual Boomswitch commander has been set and activated the different sections are displayed as numbered “LED” lamps in the Field View Each „LED“ indicates with it’s colour if the specific section yhould be turned on or off. Yellow means on red means off. BEABEJTETE FACHE 2.1.3 Farmnavigator Settings: Use this button to change the Farmnavigator settings in this screen you can adjust the functions of the Farmnaviator to your Farmmachine and the attachments Working Width: Here you can set the workingwidth of your farmmachine. This value is used to calculate the distance between the...

Guiding Lines: Here you can select from three different types of navigation Offset: This setting allows you to move the position of your GPS receiver virtually forward and backwards (to the position of your sprayer oder plow etc.), to have more accuracy in work. Area Unit: Here you can select the Unit of Measurement Hactare = (km/h, m, cm,) Acre = (imperial, mph, Foot, Inch) Minimum Speed: Here a minimum speed for recording GPS positions. can be set. As the GPS “jumps” up to 10 m around while standing a setting of 0,5 – 2 km/h is sensible. standard setting is 1 km/h

General Settings: In this menu the basic settings of the device, like language or display settings can be changed. Bluetooth: The Farmnavigator also offers a handfree calls function for Bluetoothhandys. To connect click enable Bluetooth and then on search phone. Click Start search (this procedure might take a minute). When your mobile phone appears in the list click Connect. Please enter 0000 when you are asked for a device code. The handfree calls function is now available Camera: Click this Button to display the pictures from the rearview camera . Road Navigation: Use this button to...

Field View: Click this button to switch to the field view screen 2.2 Create and work a field 2.2.1 Create a field: open the Farmnavigator Main Menu and click the buttons Fields A table of all saved fields appears. At first use the table is empty. to create a new field click the button Create New. 2.2.2 Work a field: The map opens and starts recording of the track i.e. worked area and other values like work time, average speed etc. The Farmnavigator can also record the boundaries of the field, calculate the area and position soilsamples or obstacles on the map. This data is saved into the...

To stop the recording of the worked area click stop in the down left corner. You can start working on this field again at any time with a click on start or when you reopen the field in the fields data base 2.2.3 Measure a field and position soilsamples / obstacles To measure a field you have to drive or walk around the field on the inner fieldlimit. Before driving around the field please set the working width so that the distance from GPS receiver (on the hood) to the fieldlimit is half of the workingwidth. Measure a field: Drive some meters at first. Then click the button measure. The...