John Deere GPS receivers?

[marcot]

Has anyone upgraded from the sf 3000 receiver to the latest sf 6000 one? If so what is the verdict? How much better/worse is it on sf1 activation?

 

[spikeislander]

I’ve not but have only heard it’s better

 

[Speedstar]

We have a SF6000 will only work on SF1 &SF3 it is ok but not as good as RTK

 

[spikeislander]

Not sf2 ? Seems odd doesn’t it?

 

[Brisel]

Has anyone upgraded from the sf 3000 receiver to the latest sf 6000 one? If so what is the verdict? How much better/worse is it on sf1 activation?

I've got both 3000 and 6000 receivers. The SF3 SF6000 is much quicker to acquire signal & accuracy. The SF3000 on SF2 takes 15 minutes to get good enough for autotrac and twice that to get to full accuracy. That's after driving to the field through woodland with no overhead view to lose all satellites & SF signal. Sorry - I can't help on SF1 on the SF6000 as I've never tried it.

 

[marcot]

I've got both 3000 and 6000 receivers. The SF3 SF6000 is much quicker to acquire signal & accuracy. The SF3000 on SF2 takes 15 minutes to get good enough for autotrac and twice that to get to full accuracy. That's after driving to the field through woodland with no overhead view to lose all satellites & SF signal. Sorry - I can't help on SF1 on the SF6000 as I've never tried it.

Than you very useful. Its the convergence time that I'm interested in ...my sf3000 seems to be taking a lot longer nowadays to get to 90% and takes forever to teach 100% so considering upgrading the receiver .....

 

[KB6930]

I know someone who's been on sf2 on a 3000 and has just got a new 6000 and they've not swapped the activation yet so has done all spring work on sf1 and he's saying it's probably not worth bothering swapping it over and leaving it on older dome so they have another one with decent accuracy

 

[marcot]

I know someone who's been on sf2 on a 3000 and has just got a new 6000 and they've not swapped the activation yet so has done all spring work on sf1 and he's saying it's probably not worth bothering swapping it over and leaving it on older dome so they have another one with decent accuracy

Just to be clear ....your friend is saying that SF1 on a 6000 is as good as SF2 on a 3000?

 

[KB6930]

Just to be clear ....your friend is saying that SF1 on a 6000 is as good as SF2 on a 3000?

More or less yes

He says it drifts which JD say it won't do but he's working back and forward off 1 side so unless he's stopped or goes away and comes back it's not a big problem

But he's drilled a few hundred acres with and he's happy enough with it compared to his 3000 on sf2

 

[legin]

We're on a 6000 dome on SF1 and pretty pleased with it.Done most of drilling with it, but does struggle sometimes on ploughed & pressed banks with a front press. Pulled up potato beds with it as well. Won't upgrade to SF3.

 

[General-Lee]

Gone from an iTC (stone age I know!) to a 6000 last August, completely different beast! Arable side pretty much perfect (we've 6m margins) and most other field work, but topping in Parkland that I'm doing now it's not perfect and as good as I'd of expected, miles better though.

 

[General-Lee]

Not sf2 ? Seems odd doesn’t it?

I used one of my 'credits' on a big day drilling in the Autumn and it said sf2, but guessing thats my display.

 

[General-Lee]

but does struggle sometimes on ploughed & pressed banks with a front press

Not receiver fault though?! Atu?

 

[KB6930]

I used one of my 'credits' on a big day drilling in the Autumn and it said sf2, but guessing thats my display.

If you used a grace period that would mean receiver and screen on sf2 we drilled a field on a grace period as it's right next to a main road and as a trial to see what it was like and couldn't see a difference to be honest it was still missing the odd wee bit

We are doing everything in sf1 with a 3000 dome and to be fair it's pretty good drilling with a 3m I can get it so it varies between overlapping a coulter to occasionally being slightly wide

Mowing silage you see instant results as if you're missing you soon see it and it's fine for that

If we were going to a 6000 dome certainly wouldn't bother with upgrades/paid subscription especially if I was running wider gear

 

[legin]

Just to add, I might not have steering sensitivity set quite right for drilling on ploughed/pressed land.

 

[Wheatonrotty]

We've used 4 generations of domes (original, itc, sf3000 and 6000) each has been better than the previous one and apart from the grace periods to try them out always had them on SF1. The 6000 is definitely quicker than the 3000 at sorting itself out after going under trees etc.
Once they have signal I wouldn't say there's much between them.

 

[dirty harry]

Did my spring drilling on sf3 and it does seem a lot better than sf2 on the 3000 dome, less wandering/ wobble, needle straight and better pick up at ends etc
Cheers dh

 

[Speedstar]

But there are a lot of tramlines about that are shotgun straight drilled with GPS but they are not 24 meters or 21 meters wide when you spread fert or what ever in them, I think if you want them bang on you need RTK

 

[dirty harry]

Sorry I guess what I’m saying is sf3 would seem to be as good as rtk imo?

 

[dirty harry]

This was sf3 drilling, never looked this straight with sf2?
To be fair I’m no expert & it’s probably all in the setup?
Cheers dh