FieldBee 40% off

[Scrambler]

This appears to be a very good offer. Is there a catch? Anybody got experience of using the FieldBee kit?

 

[Lowland1]

We have one and have just bought two more. It took us a while to get the first one working well but it is now and so have ordered two more for about £2700 each as we already have a base station. Having just paid £1500 for our RTX subscription for Trimble I think they are good value.

 

[Sambo]

Do the fieldbee require an ongoing subscription to work on rtk?

 

[BuskhillFarm]

It shows how little they actually cost to make. I’ve a similar in Ag open made for less than half that, but £2620 would be a very good price for an off the shelf bolt on one, don’t know why anyone buys likes of Trimble any more, they seem to double in price every year

 

[Lowland1]

Do the fieldbee require an ongoing subscription to work on rtk?

Yes it's something like £180 a year.

 

[DaveGrohl]

We have one and have just bought two more. It took us a while to get the first one working well but it is now and so have ordered two more for about £2700 each as we already have a base station. Having just paid £1500 for our RTX subscription for Trimble I think they are good value.

Been looking at this and wondering whether to go for it. What sort of problems did you have?

 

[Lowland1]

Been looking at this and wondering whether to go for it. What sort of problems did you have?

Connectivity really. Trying to get the right signal and mode settings. We’ve had a lot of trial and error to get it right. Probably we didn’t ask the right questions or they didn’t know we didn’t understand the basics. However now it’s working really well so we are putting them on two more tractors as it’s about a quarter of the Trimble price and subscription for RTK is about a tenth of Trimble.

 

[DaveGrohl]

Connectivity really. Trying to get the right signal and mode settings. We’ve had a lot of trial and error to get it right. Probably we didn’t ask the right questions or they didn’t know we didn’t understand the basics. However now it’s working really well so we are putting them on two more tractors as it’s about a quarter of the Trimble price and subscription for RTK is about a tenth of Trimble.

I know nowt at all about these systems and haven‘t even sat on a tractor to see them in action. Field Bee pricing has got me extremely interested now though. Thanks for your reply

 

[Lowland1]

I know nowt at all about these systems and haven‘t even sat on a tractor to see them in action. Field Bee pricing has got me extremely interested now though. Thanks for your reply

I don't know much either. My son installed the Field Bee set up fairly easily. There was a thread on here about someone installing their system and getting it to work and so I thought it was worth a try.