JD Planter Monitor

donjr · May 17, 2017

I have a JD 350 monitor that works fine- most of the time. But, every once in a while it goes sort of buggy and says that the
population just went high on one or two rows- like 47K or 53 K or something near there. I'm planting at about 31,000 ppa. Any
ideas??

paul · May 17, 2017

I had a Hiniker monitor that would go high when a box got near empty. It would be counting the chaff and flakes at the bottom of the barrel, so to speak.

Paul

donjr · May 17, 2017

Gonna have to make a note of that. Thanks. Only thang is thet this is on a 7000- and I keep the lids on and tight, and have never noticed much crud in the boxes....

JD Seller · May 18, 2017

If your using talc powered or powdered graphite in the seed boxes it will settle down to the bottom and then go out all at once. This causes the seed tube sensors to read that as seed. So the population count shots up.

paul · May 18, 2017

As clean as the bags of seed are, there was always a little fines in the bottom of the bag - seed coating and such. Every time I would see it planting 60,000 corn I could check and sure enough, it was down into the sump on seed level. And with beans it would spike to over 200,000 if they were coated beans.

I don't notice it with the current monitor and seed tubes. Those Hinikers were way ahead of their time, they were much more accurate than what came with this planter.

Paul

donjr · May 18, 2017

Thanks, JD. I only use a spoonful in each box, and it almost always seems 2 or 3 unit that reds high. But that makes sense- it rescans and reads normal.

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