AgOpenGPS RTK Autosteer, How to Guide for £1000

[S.Jamieson]

Does anyone have stock of precrimped wires for ampseal?

Did my system on my tractor ok, but losing my patience with doing it again on my sprayer!

 

[Andy26]

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Choose the correct one, ie 23 pin female.

You cannot buy an Ampseal plug for the price of these.

 

[S.Jamieson]

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Choose the correct one, ie 23 pin female.

You cannot buy an Ampseal plug for the price of these.

Thanks. Thought there might have been somewhere with quicker delivery!

Not to worry!

 

[del_boy]

Thanks. Thought there might have been somewhere with quicker delivery!

Not to worry!

I ordered one last week and it came within 4 days

 

[YoungFarmer23]

Hi, I’m in the stages of starting to put all the hardware on the tractor and I’m struggling to find a cab pass through on my John Deere 6430 premium, I was wondering if anyone can help me here?
Thank you

 

[Andy26]

Hi, I’m in the stages of starting to put all the hardware on the tractor and I’m struggling to find a cab pass through on my John Deere 6430 premium, I was wondering if anyone can help me here?
Thank you

Under the cab mat near the right hand door.

 

[Alan88]

What's the best to mount the antenna/receiver to the roof? (mf 6480) Just screw through and some rubber washers on it?

 

[andyinv]

What's the best to mount the antenna/receiver to the roof? (mf 6480) Just screw through and some rubber washers on it?

Metal backing plate, 20cm diameter. Double sided tape to fix it to roof if it's a plastic one (no plate needed if metal ofc)

 

[Andy26]

Stick a round metal plate to the roof with 3m sticky pads or epoxy resin if you want belts and braces.

The antennae is magnetic, so you can then position precisely.

Metal plate needs to be minimum 150mm dia, ideally a touch more.

 

[Andy26]

The centre of the cab is not going to be the centre of tractor, so you will need to adjust or put offset in software.

 

[davidroberts30]

What's the best to mount the antenna/receiver to the roof? (mf 6480) Just screw through and some rubber washers on it?

f9p have magnetic base, just place it on and when its right draw round it with a sharpy so if it gets rubbed under a branch you can just put it back

 

[davidroberts30]

The centre of the cab is not going to be the centre of tractor, so you will need to adjust or put offset in software.

oh yes!!!
peg in the floor and set a A-B line past the peg
adjust the offsets in agopen to 0
drive the ab line and adjust the antenna until its zero and same both ways

 

[Lewis]

PM’d you @Andy26

 

[aidan]

A step up converter that will take 12v in and put out the voltage your laptop requires. I have been using a 100w so far, adjusted to 16v with Panasonic CF-C2 and FZ-G1 toughbooks.

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A connector to suit you device. I gather that toughbooks use an odd size, but a 2.5mm x 5.5mm x 9mm male connector jack is close enough. The 9mm long ones are a bit short, but work. There are 14mm long versions, but I haven't tried them.

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The jacks I have suit 5mm over all diameter cable. I use 1.0mm2 two core flex for a wiring various parts of my system. It's a bit excessive for handling 100w, but is 5mm over all diameter cable, a nice size to handle and I already have a roll of the stuff.

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I put it in it's own 3d printed case, but if you have a large enough project box for other agopen boards then it could fit in there. I have a switched 12v output from the boxes with my v2 boards in, which powers these chargers for the toughbook and also other devices such as ethernet hub and section control module. I'm just using spade connections for the time being on the input, but ideally will switch to powerpole or superseal connectors instead to help avoid connecting the power the wrong way.

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The red board is a 150w step up converter I have just got, waiting to go in another tractor. More powerful than needed, but just happened to be slightly cheaper and has the advantage of screw terminals, so a little less soldering to do.

no problem with anything overheating putting them in a box

 

[clbarclay]

The box has a mesh top and bottom. I haven't noticed them getting warm at all.

 

[aidan]

The box has a mesh top and bottom. I haven't noticed them getting warm at all.

didn't see the mesh top and bottom, v clever

 

[clbarclay]

The mesh was also aligned so that I can still adjust get a screwdriver through it to the voltage output once assembled.

 

[Larel]

More playtime today. Now following an AB line dead straight and no hunting, but still hunting when I do a turn. Getting closer!

 

[del_boy]

Looks like alot of play in your steering rams/track rod ends the way the wheels were wobbling. Mightve been better to be actually sat in the cab while videoing stuff like that, way to much that could go wrong

 

[Andy26]

Looks like alot of play in your steering rams/track rod ends the way the wheels were wobbling. Mightve been better to be actually sat in the cab while videoing stuff like that, way to much that could go wrong

The wobbling will be the valve oscillating, it does that if setting aren't right.

@Larel put a picture up of the steer settings, make sure you have PP selected in the bottom left hand corner of the screen.