Drill Manager

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Looking for a Horsch Drill Manager twin control box to fit Horsch Sprinter with version 24 software. TIA

 

[AF Salers]

Might not suit you but you may want to upgrade to isobus control, price is about £2k for the kit from Horsch

 

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Might not suit you but you may want to upgrade to isobus control, price is about £2k for the kit from Horsch

Thanks. Hadn’t thought of that.

 

[Northdowns Martin]

Might not suit you but you may want to upgrade to isobus control, price is about £2k for the kit from Horsch

Our drill manager box failed Horsch have suggested doing this upgrade, have you got a contact to speak with about it or list of what i need to get. Running a CO4 with Horsch metering

 

[AF Salers]

As far as I know it comes as a kit from Horsch. The area manager knew about it. I would have thought your Horsch dealer would make the effort to know more about it. @jonnieboy has fitted one to his CO6

 

[dirty harry]

Are you after the digital bit or the switch bit? Sure I’ve got a digital bit somewhere- will have a look in workshop tomorrow cheers dh

 

[Northdowns Martin]

Are you after the digital bit or the switch bit? Sure I’ve got a digital bit somewhere- will have a look in workshop tomorrow cheers dh

Thank you, I will know tomorrow, hopefully by picking up a neighbours box and by process of elimination find out whats shopped working.

 

[Northdowns Martin]

As far as I know it comes as a kit from Horsch. The area manager knew about it. I would have thought your Horsch dealer would make the effort to know more about it. @jonnieboy has fitted one to his CO6

You would thought they would but not getting that impression.

 

[dirty harry]

Any ideas yet? I have a digital box here? Cheers dh

 

[Northdowns Martin]

Any ideas yet? I have a digital box here? Cheers dh

This is box that has failed, if you have one going spare happy to take it off your hands. Kind regards Martin

 

[Fish]

I’ve had the iso bus upgrade fitted to our old co 4 and I would recommend anyone having problems with these old boxes to do the same.

local claas/horsch dealer did ours, cost more than 2k but less than 3,

i do how ever have both boxes, v24, in full working order, all the wiring and assorted connections for sale if anyone needs some bits

 

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I’ve had the iso bus upgrade fitted to our old co 4 and I would recommend anyone having problems with these old boxes to do the same.

local claas/horsch dealer did ours, cost more than 2k but less than 3,

i do how ever have both boxes, v24, in full working order, all the wiring and assorted connections for sale if anyone needs some bits

Did that include changing the control modules on the drill? I spoke to our Horsch dealer and they reckoned it would cost around 6k to do as I would need the box plus changing all the modules on the drill! I aborted the plan at that point.
can I ask does your box make an alarm sound if any of the sensors go off? Ours shows on the display but no audible warning. Our dealer said they are only silent alarms on the drill manager but I find that hard to believe. I’m fed up with looking at the boxes every few seconds to make sure everything is working ok all the time !

 

[Chae1]

This is box that has failed, if you have one going spare happy to take it off your hands. Kind regards Martin

How kind of you.

 

[Northdowns Martin]

Did that include changing the control modules on the drill? I spoke to our Horsch dealer and they reckoned it would cost around 6k to do as I would need the box plus changing all the modules on the drill! I aborted the plan at that point.
can I ask does your box make an alarm sound if any of the sensors go off? Ours shows on the display but no audible warning. Our dealer said they are only silent alarms on the drill manager but I find that hard to believe. I’m fed up with looking at the boxes every few seconds to make sure everything is working ok all the time !

I was quoted 7K because I have blockage sensors that would have to be replaced with new compatable ones

 

[Fish]

Did that include changing the control modules on the drill? I spoke to our Horsch dealer and they reckoned it would cost around 6k to do as I would need the box plus changing all the modules on the drill! I aborted the plan at that point.
can I ask does your box make an alarm sound if any of the sensors go off? Ours shows on the display but no audible warning. Our dealer said they are only silent alarms on the drill manager but I find that hard to believe. I’m fed up with looking at the boxes every few seconds to make sure everything is working ok all the time !

Well I our case all the modules have gone, completely new wiring system, but we only had three to start with. We now have an iso connection, no in cab box, horsch icon on the tractor screen, in our case a fendt vario. As we have rtk, no markers to control, but have all other functions, tramlines, electric seed rate control etc, but no blockage monitor as we never had that in the first place.
As for audible warnings on the old boxes, yes it would bleep if the seed metering slowed down or stoped, or if you went too fast or too slow, not sure about fan speed, but I think you could disable it.
How ever I have got to admit I have not drilled much using the old boxes, only got the old girl in spring 20, 50 acres of beans, 100 acres of wheat, some oats and cover crops, so maybe some of the warnings are silent, just never came across one.

 

[solo]

When I had a co3 with the same drill manager boxes the sensor for low seed level would beeb along with the low fan speed sensor if it dropped below the parameters set up. It would also been when lifted up whilst turning and resume silence once down seeding again.