Trimble has launched best-of-breed and state-of-the-art version of its all the rage AgGPS EZ-Guide Plus lightbar guidance system called the EZ-Guide 500 system, which is touted to be integrated with a wider, simple to read color LCD display, manifold accurateness options and data logging functions. Lightbar systems gives GPS-enabled guidance for vehicle operators to steer tractors, air seeders, sprayers, fertilizer applicators, and bigger tillage devices that need reliable pass-to-pass accurateness to help salt away fuel, enhance competence and lessen input expenses for agricultural operations.
The latest EZ-Guide 500 sports a wide 7-inch LCD display, which is three times bigger than Trimble’s field-proven AgGPS EZ-Guide Plus or any other available agriculture lightbar display. The EZ-Guide 500 system is also touted to be consisted with a built-in lightbar with a guidance LED array that is able to be seen even in direct sun. Besides,the EZ-Guide 500 also puts forward sophisticated however user-friendly guidance patterns, plus real-time where-applied coverage mapping.
The plan and perspective views let users have a watch on screen, in colour and real-time, the area covered by them in the field. Users, with the data logging function, are allowed to keep record of the day’s work and shift it to a computer through a USB flash drive with a view to generating printed maps and reports. Not only this, the latest EZ-Guide 500 system, with its high precision dual-frequency L1/L2 Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver, also boasts of providing users with an assortment of accurateness options but for making purchase of an external GPS receiver. Users are allowed to opt: 6-8 inch pass-to-pass accuracy by making use of free Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) signals; 3-5 inch accuracy with OmniSTAR XP/HP subscription service; or 1-inch year-to-year repeatability utilizing RTK corrections, founded on crop and operation requirements.
