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Correct Spraying Rate on a small sprayer
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<blockquote data-quote="DavidHammond123" data-source="post: 7670938" data-attributes="member: 160665"><p>In my day job, I work at a company that makes controllers for machinery (sprayers/drills/spreaders etc).</p><p>Our controllers are capable of doing the full shebang which means they cost a bit of money, which means they are only worth it on larger machinery because the ROI is there.</p><p></p><p>I have been daydreaming about different solutions using a phone as a screen and Bluetooth (to keep screen and cable/wiring costs down) for these small sprayers (or drills/spreaders), but I'm not sure if the ROI is there for farmers to be worth it. (I also wasn't sure if I was understanding sprayer pressure correctly)</p><p></p><p>For example, this is just made up numbers because I don't know what they actually are:</p><p>Say a farmer with a sprayer like this used 1000 quid of chemical a year to spray</p><p>If a monitor/controller decreased his error by spraying error by 10%, that would be a savings of 100 quid a year.</p><p>So if this monitor/controller cost 500 quid then it would be a 5-year payback.</p><p>Obviously, this would have to last longer than 5 years to be worth it for the farmer.</p><p></p><p>I'm on the engineering side so I have no idea yet if those numbers are even within a stone's throw of plausibility.</p><p></p><p>Basically, I'm trying to figure out if I can make something that is cheap enough and useful enough for someone with a small sprayer like that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DavidHammond123, post: 7670938, member: 160665"] In my day job, I work at a company that makes controllers for machinery (sprayers/drills/spreaders etc). Our controllers are capable of doing the full shebang which means they cost a bit of money, which means they are only worth it on larger machinery because the ROI is there. I have been daydreaming about different solutions using a phone as a screen and Bluetooth (to keep screen and cable/wiring costs down) for these small sprayers (or drills/spreaders), but I'm not sure if the ROI is there for farmers to be worth it. (I also wasn't sure if I was understanding sprayer pressure correctly) For example, this is just made up numbers because I don't know what they actually are: Say a farmer with a sprayer like this used 1000 quid of chemical a year to spray If a monitor/controller decreased his error by spraying error by 10%, that would be a savings of 100 quid a year. So if this monitor/controller cost 500 quid then it would be a 5-year payback. Obviously, this would have to last longer than 5 years to be worth it for the farmer. I'm on the engineering side so I have no idea yet if those numbers are even within a stone's throw of plausibility. Basically, I'm trying to figure out if I can make something that is cheap enough and useful enough for someone with a small sprayer like that. [/QUOTE]
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