035 - Taarup Mower Auto-Swather Control

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5 жыл бұрын

Time for a change, and something hopefully more practical. This is a video investigating a few problems with a Taarup mower with an Auto-Swather. I should not have tried to describe what an "Auto-Swather" is, but rather searched for a suitable KZfaq video, (with a pulsating audio track) - • Kverneland 4332 CT Dis...
I hope that's what I described verbally, but chances are some of ye out there pictured something totally different.
My brother is the farmer, and has never liked the control box supplied with the mower, apart from that it's a great mower, or so he says. He has changed out the control box in the past but apparently it's been victim of the same problems, so replacement with same OEM part is not an option so let's look into this.
As you can imagine, given recent videos, the solution I come up with might use CAN Bus and the CinnamonBun device as the basis.

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@tjmcardle3750 Жыл бұрын

@Patrick Magee do ye still repair these and if so how much does it cost

@patrickmagee774 5 жыл бұрын

We have repaired several of these for farmers and contractors. I will ask the technicians what the fault was. From memory the fets die. May or may not be relevant but was funny to see the same units turn up on your bench!

@electronicsoup2001 5 жыл бұрын

Be interested to know, because my brother, the farmer, seems to think that this is a common issue with those control units. If I found out I'd still probably create my own solution, using CAN Bus, instead of running 7 core trailer lights cable back to the mower control unit. I guess when all you have is a hammer everything looks like a nail... When you say "We have repaired" dare I ask who's "we"? And where ye based?

@patrickmagee774 5 жыл бұрын

@@electronicsoup2001 Yes the fets blow in these leading to total failure. I wonder if the fets fail slowly over time, contributing to the problems observed. They seem to be poorly designed alright.

@patrickmagee774 5 жыл бұрын

Lumen Electronics based in Toomebridge :)

@electronicsoup2001 5 жыл бұрын

Sorry must have missed the notification of your message. Kinda got busy then starting a contract. You have to pay the bills ;) I'll have to bookmark ye as I have to confess I'd not heard of ye at all. Looks interesting.

@patrickmagee774 5 жыл бұрын

@@electronicsoup2001 No problem :) if you want to get in touch you can find us on google (not sure if youtube allow posting of contact details). We design for OEMs using PICs so might be interesting to have a chat if you do contracting.