Closing

Add a Control Widget to Home Screen

To access the control page for Closing, you’ll need a control widget on your home screen if there isn’t already one there. Once you’ve got one, you can tap it any time to get to the control page.

Control widgets are available for Closing systems in Wide, Tall, and Large sizes. They all tell you whether your system is enabled, and, if so, what its current target is. Additionally, the large-size widgets also let you bump the system target up or down without leaving your home screen.

Enable Closing System Control

To enable control for your Closing system, go to its control page by tapping on the control widget on your home screen. (If you don’t see that widget, you may need to add it first.)

Then press Enabled on the toggle button in the top right corner of the page.

Adjust the Pressure Manually

If you want complete control over the pressure being applied by your closing system, you can set a fixed pressure that the system will always apply.

To set this value, use the slider on the left of the control page to adjust it. The pressure will increase as you slide downwards, mimicking the behavior of the system pressing down into the soil.

Alternatively, you can use the stepper buttons (+ and -) or tap on the white input box to enter a value manually.

Let the 20|20 Adjust Target Pressure Automatically

When you set the target pressure manually, you are setting a fixed pressure to apply, no matter how much actual, measured pressure that ends up resulting in.

Alternatively, though, you can tell the 20|20 a target pressure that you’d like it to try to hit, adjusting the pressure it applies in order to achieve that.

If you opt for this automatic control, toggle the switch at the top of the page to Automatic. The system comes with three preset configurations: Light, Standard, and Heavy, but you can also use these as a jumping off point for fine-tuning the target pressure. Just use the same stepper buttons and slider as on the manual page.

Add Metrics Widgets to the Home Screen

To keep an eye on how your Closing system is performing, you may want to add a Closing metrics widget to your home screen. Closing metrics are only available in large and extra-large widgets, and they closely resemble Down Force widgets.

A large or extra-large metrics widget for the Closing system

These widgets display four useful data points:

• Margin takes the lowest load cell reading in the last five seconds from each row and averages it across the whole implement.
• Ground Contact estimates the percentage of time the system was planting at the desired depth. In practice, that means the percentage of time where the load is at least 20 pounds.
• Low tells you the lowest weigh-pin reading on a single row, while High tells you the opposite: the highest weigh-pin reading on a single row.

Additionally, you can configure your Dashboard Mini-Chart to show you Closing metrics on a row-by-row basis, either all the time or on a rotating basis (swapping out other metrics at a regular interval).

View Closing Map Layers

You can switch your home screen map to show you two layers for your Closing System:

• Closing Margin maps the minimum weight measured from each load cell within the past fifth of a second. A blue stretch represents a loss of ground contact.
• Closing Act. Pressure maps the actual pressure measured across the closing system.

Understand Diagnostics Metrics for FurrowForce

Go to the Diagnose menu, then tap Closing System in the sidebar. On the Closing System diagnose page, you’ll find the following diagnostic metrics for each FurrowForce module:

• Row — the row where the module is installed
• Sensor Supply Volts — the voltage at the sensor
• Control Supply Volts — the voltage at the control module
• Reading — the current weight measured on that row

• Load Cell Status — the status of each load cell.

  • Press this value for any row to disable (ignore) the load cell on that row or to enable it again once disabled
  • If a load cell is ignored, that row will control DeltaForce to the 80th percentile of all other properly operating rows
• Reference Value — value determined automatically by the 20|20 when you zero the FurrowForce modules
• Cmd Pressure — the expected pressure commanded by the 20|20 based on the target pressure that you set
• Actual Pressure — the actual pressure sensed by the system