v 660 control box

[jpd]

is there a small battery in the control box to hold the time and net meters from previous use?

 

[benferg]

Yes there is something like that.

 

[robbie]

Does anyone know the access code to get into the box settings, I'm fed up with the pee useless bale shape indicators and McHale or the dealer don't want to know and just say only bale good swaths and switch them off.

Maybe there is nothing I can do but I want to exhaust all options. It's the one thing which would stop me buying another one

 

[copse]

Does anyone know the access code to get into the box settings, I'm fed up with the pee useless bale shape indicators and McHale or the dealer don't want to know and just say only bale good swaths and switch them off.

Maybe there is nothing I can do but I want to exhaust all options. It's the one thing which would stop me buying another one

What’s wrong with your bale shape indicators?

 

[Chae1]

Does anyone know the access code to get into the box settings, I'm fed up with the pee useless bale shape indicators and McHale or the dealer don't want to know and just say only bale good swaths and switch them off.

Maybe there is nothing I can do but I want to exhaust all options. It's the one thing which would stop me buying another one

Just take them off/disconnect them. When the bale size indicator stopped working on mine, the McHale guy said it was same sensor as ones on belts for bale shape so moved sensor. Didn't have to change anything in box. Mines a 2011 newer ones could be different.

 

[robbie]

What’s wrong with your bale shape indicators?

They're fudging useless. The new Holland ones were ace and with there help could make a perfect bale from any old swath but the McHale ones are crap and I'll show an odd arrow left or right sometimes, the bale has be a very long way off even before anything happens.

I've tried altering the potentiometer position and I've re set them via the box numerous times but they are still fecking useless.

 

[copse]

They're fudging useless. The new Holland ones were ace and with there help could make a perfect bale from any old swath but the McHale ones are crap and I'll show an odd arrow left or right sometimes, the bale has be a very long way off even before anything happens.

I've tried altering the potentiometer position and I've re set them via the box numerous times but they are still fecking useless.

Have the same problem here!

 

[robbie]

Have the same problem here!

I've put a multi meter on the potentiometer and it registers a difference with the slightest of movement but it has to move such a big distance before the box will register it so I think the boxes sensitivity needs increasing, if it's possible to do it.

 

[jpd]

been told by a mchale teck that they are working on a new shape indicator system as old one was in effective.teck didnt hold much hope for the new system either as it tracked the belts on the rollers.theres no system on mine so its up to me.loads of odd shapes im afraid

 

[robbie]

Having only 3 belts doesn't help the efficiency of sensors that run on the belts, the best system in my opinion is the NH one which had spring steel sensors on each side of the chamber measuring the actual crop density in the bale.

I thought I heard somewhere new McHale's use optical sensors????

 

[copse]

is there a small battery in the control box to hold the time and net meters from previous use?

Are you loosing the time when control box is off ?

 

[jpd]

my net meters reset to zero overnight
time was ok
net meters was still on it after winter storage
time as well
but hasnt happened since
but baler doesnt get much use in fairness

.

 

[glasshouse]

Having only 3 belts doesn't help the efficiency of sensors that run on the belts, the best system in my opinion is the NH one which had spring steel sensors on each side of the chamber measuring the actual crop density in the bale.

I thought I heard somewhere new McHale's use optical sensors????

Eyes?

 

[KB6930]

Having only 3 belts doesn't help the efficiency of sensors that run on the belts, the best system in my opinion is the NH one which had spring steel sensors on each side of the chamber measuring the actual crop density in the bale.

I thought I heard somewhere new McHale's use optical sensors????

My last one had a sensor up the front picking up on a distance off the edge of the belts it was just as shite as your ones. Your best bet is to just ignore what it's telling you and fill it yourself