Drying using a Opico 1200QF

[EslingtonAndrew]

Any help out there regarding drying a load of barley down to 14.5% moisture. I’ve tried to increase the air temp to 220 the product drying temp to 113 and cooling temp to 85. These started on 210 108 90. The barley won’t go below 15.3%. The barley is straight off the field at 17/18% and has been sprayed off 14 days? Any help or advice greatly appreciated

 

[eagleye]

reduce the drying temp a bit, takes longer to get up to temp to cut off
or increase "product drying temp" a degree or two

 

[EslingtonAndrew]

Cheers, I’ve just tweaked it up a notch and it’s seems to have done the trick. Jumped down to 14.3% the humidity is just playing havoc with each load being very different. ‍

 

[eagleye]

always found when drying late at night the loads took longer, higher humidity, lower air temp, maybe just tired and wanted it to finish quicker

 

[Al R]

always found when drying late at night the loads took longer, higher humidity, lower air temp, maybe just tired and wanted it to finish quicker

Wet days always take longer and if your in a shed you can get a lot of moisture falling from the roof onto dry corn nearby but doesn’t make much difference if the corn nearby needs drying anyway..

 

[EslingtonAndrew]

Love the sun hate the humidity ‍ still better than the grain company charges I suppose.