Met with Kinze yesterday

David G

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I got invited yesterday to meet with the Kinze electronic R&D team yesterday. I was impressed with what I saw, they are looking to be a third, neutral, party for electronics for the Ag and construction equipment market. They have a controller, that can be user programmable, so that would allow equipment manufactures to automate their equipment with controls that are built for the environment.
 
I know enough about electronics to be dangerous, and pretend I know more than I do....

I play with computers a little.

I?ve always been amazed at the backwards state of the electronics I see in Ag equipment, it?s all kinda spliced together, 10 year old stuff it seems?

Then most of it seems desifgbed to protect and be obligated tot he parent company first and foremost. Which isn?t much different than any electronics co, but still any cool user features seem to be sucked out and obnoxious parent company controls are put in.....

Would be nice to get something third party and somewhat universal out there.

Paul
 
(quoted from post at 09:03:04 12/11/18) I know enough about electronics to be dangerous, and pretend I know more than I do....

I play with computers a little.

I?ve always been amazed at the backwards state of the electronics I see in Ag equipment, it?s all kinda spliced together, 10 year old stuff it seems?

Then most of it seems desifgbed to protect and be obligated tot he parent company first and foremost. Which isn?t much different than any electronics co, but still any cool user features seem to be sucked out and obnoxious parent company controls are put in.....

Would be nice to get something third party and somewhat universal out there.

Paul

Paul,

What ideas do you have or what would you do with third party universal electronics?
 
Paul I agree with you 200%. Maybe Kinze as an independent can come up with something more user friendly for AG equipment. I want one menu where ALL parameters can be plugged in, then just push enter and we are set to go instead of going through four different pages to get to the one we need in order to set one single function.
 

Millennial Farmer had a YouTube video where he was having an independent third party electronics system installed on some equipment.
 
This fall I was riding in my friends new to him JD combine with 12 row SPLIT FLEX corn head. He farms near Red Oak Iowa, and wanted a wide corn head that would flex around his terraces. The head has 5 ground height sensors and the cylinders are on top of the header, so from the cab you can see them constantly adjusting! About 4pm that afternoon he had to stop and call technical assistance. When he would press down, the header would go up! When he turned it to manual it would go down, but he did not run it like that. Called the outfit that split it-no answer. He then called his JD technician directly, and I heard him comment that all 5 sensors were still there-but as he said that I noticed that a corn stalk had wrapped around the snout right at the sensor, telling the computer it was as far down as possible. I climbed down and unwrapped the stalk, got back in to suggest he try it. Problem was the tech had him so deep into the computer system that it took him 5 minutes to get out of it so he could try it! Sure and shooting, that stalk had shut him down as quick as a blown engine would have!
 

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