GPS-Switch: Sprayers and Spreaders with Automatic Part-Width Section Control

With GPS-Switch, Amazone offers a GPS based automatic part-width section control for crop protection sprayers and fertiliser spreaders.

At present up to 13 part width sections can be automatically controlled when spraying in addition to the automatic on/off at the headlands. As well as Amatron+, fertiliser spreaders also require hydraulic spreading disc drive in order to automate both the functions of "on/off” at the headlands and the control of the 6 part-width “boom” sections.

Thanks to GPS-Switch, overlapping and misses are avoided, for instance, at the field's headland, in wedges, or when negotiating obstacles. This results in cost savings and agronomical advantages, for example, less lodged corn. The wider the tramline width and the more awkward the field shape the more effective these advantages become.

Machine operating times can be extended into the early morning and late evening hours. In addition, driver stress is reduced as the need for a constant high level of concentration is reduced.

The modular design of the system means GPS systems that are already available can be utilised as a position indicator for GPS-Switch. This keeps costs down as only one receiver is required. The minimum requirements on the correction signal are to an accuracy of ± 30 cm.

Amazone GPS is available through CLAAS Harvest Centres nationwide.


For more information contact:

Justin Fisher, Product Manager – Amazone
0409 407 276