Fitting a Stocks Rotormeter to Horsch Pressurised Hopper Drill

[Alistair Nelson]

Has anybody fitted a Stocks Rotormeter to a Horsch Pressurised Hopper Drill. Where did you fit the the outlet from the Rotormeter into the AirStream?? Any Ideas and Photos etc would be greatly appreciated

Cheers

Alistair

 

[MJB]

Has anybody fitted a Stocks Rotormeter to a Horsch Pressurised Hopper Drill. Where did you fit the the outlet from the Rotormeter into the AirStream?? Any Ideas and Photos etc would be greatly appreciated

Cheers

Alistair

If you seal the lid properly and take an air feed from the horsch to equalise the pressure you can tap in anywhere. But seasing a stocks hopper can be very tricky, not impossible though.

Matt

 

[Alistair Nelson]

Matt

funny thing been sent photos of some one who has done exactly that which I have forwarded onto Horsch. Thank you

Alistair

 

[Brisel]

You will still need to create a venturi if you're dropping the feed anywhere other than into the main seed/fert venturi or you'll have too much back pressure, even with a pressurised hopper.

I have an air bleed from the fan and mini venturi below my Rotor Meter to blow the seed down to the main metering unit for the main hopper. It does increase the time lag for the Rotor Meter supply by a couple of seconds. I'll take some pics in a minute as the drill is starting out this morning.

 

[Alistair Nelson]

Marvellous thank you very much very as many pictures and help will be greatly appreciated as I have very little experience with pressurised hopper drills or shall we say None!!

Thanks

Alistair

 

[Brisel]

The small bore pipe is the air bleed from the fan. The larger 25mm pipe is the air + seed feed to the area below the main hopper metering wheel. The grey plastic T piece is the venturi with the Rotor meter feed vertically down from above.

 

[Brisel]

 

[Alistair Nelson]

Thank you that's great

 

[alomy75]

You will still need to create a venturi if you're dropping the feed anywhere other than into the main seed/fert venturi or you'll have too much back pressure, even with a pressurised hopper.

I have an air bleed from the fan and mini venturi below my Rotor Meter to blow the seed down to the main metering unit for the main hopper. It does increase the time lag for the Rotor Meter supply by a couple of seconds. I'll take some pics in a minute as the drill is starting out this morning.

I’m doing this on a Horsch Sprinter so not pressurised; there’s an air intake grille just above the Venturi-so if I just drop the rotor meter feed pipe into this that would work wouldn’t it?