The following information is for those people who have to write to the following piece of equipment.

A Horsch Anderson icart with a Agtron D3 drill manager. Useing a Raven NH3 system. With the Agco tasc controller. The one with TC on left side of screen.

First thing make sure that the Task Controller's TC type is set to OTHER. Your choices are JD, OTHER and None. Choose Other and POWER OFF DISPLAY. You have to power off dispaly and power it back on for it to recognize the change in TC Type. While in other, Vr channel does not matter it will open up all channels. (WHEN using a GS2 and this system VR channel has to correspond with the channel that you want to control.)

It seems to me that the ATS task controller has an issue if the drill operator leaves the boundary area. In my case the operator was filling the drill on the next field directly across a field change, so he didn't have trucks in the field.

Here is basically what happens.
In VT you have two icons on the left side of your screen TC and D3. Tc controls the prescription. D3 is of course the drill monitor.

I am running 11-52-0 and NH3 prescriptions through this system.
1. You go to the field and set up prescription in TC. It pretty much steps you throught the process.

2. you go to the D3 Icon and seed. Fert goes up and down. Everyone is happy.

3. Operator leaves boundary area of field. Things go south.

4. The controller has a lost of GPS default, but not a out of prescription area default. The OofPA (a new acronym is just made up----out of prescription area) is set at ZERO and for saftey's sake it turns of the NH3 channel.

5. Then operator returns to the prescription area-- guess what nothing happens still at zero.

6. Then operator in D3 trys to manually change the rate. taps 0 and enters in 50 for example. THe controller will accept 50 for a split second then the prescription takes over again at 0. NH3 channel is still off.

7. Operator then calls me-upset.

8. I ask him why he is leaving field. He say's to fill drill. I say I guess that logical.

9. In order to remedy operator has to go back in the TC icon stop the prescription. Then has to start the prescription again. Fun.

10. When operator doesn't leave prescription area, this controller and machine will fuction sweet, and has a very fast reaction time for both 11-52-0 and NH3.

Also the display that I was using had an RS232 connection on it for GPS. in GPS tab it was on com port 2.

Also I have about an 800 acre field going out at 30 meter resolution. It is doing a great job of handling that.
Question for you guys.

1. has anyone ever seen an owners manual for one of these? I would sell my middle child for access to one. (she whines alot, I mean alot)

2. Has anyone else wrote to this setup and have any good pointers for me?

3. I am doing something wrong on the OofPA thing?

Mike

P.S. Darin, I put the air filter on for this email.