vDrive Control

Control button population legend

Control button swath legend

Single

This assigns the same population rate to all rows:

• Select a preset population from the list of population set points displayed on-screen. You can configure this list by using the edit set points button on the right-hand side of the screen.
• Use the + or - buttons to increase the rate by 500 seeds or the amount that quick adjust population was set at in the crops setup.
• Manually enter a rate by tapping on the white box displaying the current population.

Multiple

This assigns a different population to each rate section configured during vDrive setup:

• Use the + and - buttons to adjust the populations up or down the same amount for each rate section.
• Tap on each population to manually enter a new population for each rate section.

Variable mode in active field

If a seeding prescription is assigned to the active field, variable mode will be the default setting. This means the system will control to the seeding prescription.

Move from variable to manual:

• Select manual at the top of the screen. This ignores the assigned seeding prescription and continues to plant at the assigned manual rate.
• Manual will turn yellow on both the vDrive control page and home screen if a manual rate is selected when there is also a seeding prescription assigned to the active field.

Swath control plan

When swath automatic is selected, press swath control plan to configure what the vDrive motors will switch to. Items in the swath control plan that are outlines and in bold are active components of the swath control plan. The planter will automatically swath on and off to these components while planting. The system will control to the options highlighted in green.

Field boundary

This swaths rows off if they go outside of the field boundary that has been assigned to the active field.

Inner boundary

This swaths rows off if they go inside of an inner boundary that has been assigned to the active field as part of a boundary file.

Map coverage

This swaths rows off that cross into an area of the field that has already been planted.

Simulated headlands

This swaths rows off to an offset from the field boundary that allow headlands to be planted last. Simulated headlands must be configured before the system will use them for swath control.

Switch between automatic and manual swath control

Switch between automatic and manual swath control at the bottom of the vDrive control page.

Swath on/off:

• Press the arrows to swath off from either side of the planter
• Press, hold, or swipe any of the boxes representing rows on the planter. Boxes that are yellow are swathed off.

Manually control from home screen

Swath control can also be manually controlled from the home screen. The manual control can be used instead of the dashboard mini chart at the bottom of the home screen.

1. Add the swath control bar when editing the home screen.
2. Select swath in the dashboard mini chart options.
3. Press and hold a finger on top of a box.
4. When it turns yellow, continue to drag the finger across all rows to swath off. A yellow box indicates the row is swathed off.
5. Press reset to switch back to automatic mode.

See the 20|20 operator's guide for more information on editing the home screen.

Assigning prescriptions and boundaries to a field name

Once prescriptions/boundaries have been imported into the display, they must then be assigned to the appropriate field names.

Assign a field:

• Select setup, then fields.
• Select either the active field or another field name (you may need to select a different client or farm name to locate the field needed.)
• The field setup page has options to assign both a boundary and prescription.

Boundary

Assign a boundary file to the selected field:

• Press the boundary file button. This will display all shape files that have been imported into the display.
• Ensure the appropriate boundary file is selected.
• After selecting the boundary file name, an attribute can be selected if necessary.

Seeding prescription

Assign a seeding prescription to the selected field:

• Press the seeding prescription button. This will display all shape files that have been imported into the display.
• Choose the appropriate prescription for the field name.
• After selecting the prescription name, an attribute must be selected for each rate section that has been set up for the planter. An attribute is based on a defined product and contains a single defined rate for each management zone and is defined/named during the creation of the prescription.
• Select a different attribute for each rate section if needed. This allows each rate section to be controlled by a different attribute/seeding rate. The same attribute can be selected for each rate section.
• The name of the prescription assigned to the field will be displayed in the seeding prescription box while the attribute names assigned to rate sections will be displayed in the attribute box.

Prescription and boundary processing modes

Under the advanced field setup screen, there is an option to adjust the prescription polygon processing mode.

While this mode can be adjusted, the standard setting is the default and most commonly used.

Changing the mode to all exterior adjusts the way the monitor reads the polygons that create zones. They are then changed so the display reads all the zones as exterior polygons, ignoring interior polygons.

This polygon processing mode should only be changed if there are issues with the display reading the prescription or boundary file.

Viewing the boundary and prescription

Boundary and prescription files that have been assigned to a field can be viewed on the home screen for the active field:

• Select the current map type displayed at the top of the page to see a list of all available map types.
• Scroll to the bottom of the list.
• Locate the two map types called boundary file and seeding prescription.
• Select these map types to display the seeding prescription map or boundary map assigned to the active field on the home screen.

Boundary recorder

Pressing the boundary recorder button takes you to the record swath boundaries screen. The boundaries that are recorded are for swath control only.

Record field boundary

Press this to start recording an outer field boundary. Once the recorder has started, this button will change to end field boundary. Pressing end field boundary will snap a line between the beginning and end locations of the recording.

Record inner boundary

Press this to start recording an inner field boundary. Once the recorder has started, this button will change to end inner boundary. Pressing end field boundary will snap a line between the beginning and end locations of the recording.

Pause/resume

Use the pause/resume button to drive around an area while not drawing a boundary. The system will snap a line between the pause and resume locations.

Cancel

Pressing cancel will discard all boundary drawing and editing that has been accomplished.

Change direction

Change direction will flip the planter 180 degrees.

Recording offset

Use the recording offset to offset the boundary draw line from the center of the tractor.

Simulated headlands

Press the simulated headlands button on the advanced swath tools page to navigate to the simulated headlands screen. This feature offsets the field boundary for planting them last.