Manual Dairy Feeder...
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Rev. 0 /10.12 Art.Nr. 99869
Manual Dairy Feeder PDA
Feeding made easy
Your intelligent weighing system for precise feed
management
Rev2, 27.9.2012
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Contents
Contents .................................................................................................................................................................. 2
Introduction ........................................................................................................................................................... 3
1. Start the Dairy Feeder ................................................................................................................................. 4
2. Logging in ........................................................................................................................................................ 4
3. Start feeding ................................................................................................................................................... 5
4. Feed rations .................................................................................................................................................... 6
4.1. Load ................................................................................................................................................................... 9
4.2. Administer/load remaining feed ........................................................................................................... 12
5. Unloading the ration ................................................................................................................................. 13
Frequently Asked Questions .......................................................................................................................... 14
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Introduction
Dairy feeder is a web-based feed management system that lets you access your feed data from
anywhere at any time. To access the web-based feed program all you need is the Internet. Go to
www.dairyfeeder.de and log in using your user name and password to get to your feed data. The
first time you dial in from the PDA you will also need your activation key.
You will receive your user name, password and activation key in a separate letter from Daily Feeder.
Please look after this document carefully!
Description of the components:
PDA: Transceiver box:
P ersonal
D igital
A ssistant
TMR Pilot:
Web-based feed software
www.dairyfeeder.de
You can reach your personal account by logging in.
Service
You can contact our hotline on the following number if you have any further questions:
+49 (0) 176 100 480 43
or send an e-mail to:
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1. Start the Dairy Feeder
Please first switch on your PDA by pressing the red start button on the top left of your PDA:
2. Logging in
To start the Dairy Feeder, first select the Dairy Feeder logo on the start screen.
Please consider that all quantities that follow are given in kilograms [kg].
DairyFeeder > Log in
Click on the Dairy Feeder
logo on your PDA desktop
to start the Dairy Feeder
TMR pilot.
Select Log in to be able to
log in.
You can log in as a user
here. Please enter your
password to do so.
There are different user
names available for
different users. You can
administer these in the web
account.
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Please consider that different use rights are assigned to every user. This happens via the web in the
TMR pilot. See the operating instructions for the TMR pilot on the web.
To enter the password, please use the keyboard of your PDA or select the keyboard
button. This occurs as soon as you have pressed the input field for the password. Confirm
the password entry by pressing OK and you are logged in.
3. Start feeding
INFO: With the button Zero you can set the weight display to zero. Using this tara function,
you can tell the system at the beginning that the feed mixer wagon contains 0 kg.
If you are logged in, then you can select one of your rations
directly via Feed or to get to the remaining feed
administration page via Collect refusals.
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4. Feed rations
Do you want to feed
rations, then select the
function Feed.
Now you can select the
ration that you would like
to feed next. You can mark
a ration by clicking on it. By
clicking Load you get to
the loading mode
By selecting Load you get
directly to the feed ration
(more under 2.2.).
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Manual alteration of the ration in the PDA (change the ration before start loading)
By selecting Select you can make changes to the feed ration beforehand. Please note that all
changes made here are only made once (only for this feeding). You can make long-term changes in
the TMR pilot (web-based feeding software). The idea here is to give the feeder the possibility to
react to actual conditions at short notice. Once you have made the desired changes to the ration,
then you go to the loading process of the ration by selecting Load.
The following options are available to you here:
Change the Load order by
selecting a component
and pushing it to the
desired position with the
functions Up and Down.
Up means the first
components
Change the load order
sequence:
Change the load quantity by
adjusting the total quantity of the
ration in kg of fresh matter to the
desired quantity. The load quantity is
corrected up or down via the arrow
keys. By Accepting you are
confirming this action.
Change the load amount
to kg of fresh matter
You can also change the
total quantity of rations
via the number of cows.
All components are now
adjusted to the altered
number of cows.
Change the number of
cows
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All the data changed on the PDA have only been changed once for this feeding process.
Long-term changes have to be made in the PC (master-slave principle).
These one-off changes can be tracked later on your PDA. Immediately after you call up this
ration next time, a message will appear informing you of what quantities were open before.
Once you have completed these changes or preparation, select Load to start with the feeding.
Change the dry mass of the individual
components by selecting a component. You
can then correct the content of dry substance
via the arrow buttons. By Accepting you are
confirming this action.
Change the dry matter of the
components from the ration
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4.1. Load
Using the Load function you get to the loading process for this ration.
Now select the ration that
you would like to feed.
Now you will reach your
ration. Select Load to start
the loading process with
the first component (hay
here) or Back to return to
the ration selection menu.
Test
Now load the components
as they appear in the
system. The components to
be loaded will be shown as
minus values.
The filling sequence can
still be changed during the
loading process via the
fields Reset components
and Put the components
into the last position.
If the target value has been
reached, you automatically
reach the next components
or you can confirm
manually with Next to
jump to the next
component.
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Message
If a message is in the TMR pilot for the selected ration, then this will appear first before the first
component to be fed appears. You can leave a message with a ration in the TMR pilot.
The feeding is started in accordance with ration information in the TMR pilot (web-based feed
software). Now you can fill one feed component after another into the feed mixer wagon. You can
either get to the next feed component by pressing Next or automatically by time (depending on
the setting in the TMR pilot). You can find out more about this in the operating instructions of the
TMR pilot.
A message can be left for every recipe in the TMR pilot. If a
recipe is called up, then a message appears that is read
and then confirmed by pressing OK.
In this way we can guarantee that instructions are read
before the feeding process. These instructions can then be
confirmed with OK.
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Pre-setting (change to the next components)
You either get to the next feed component automatically after a certain time or by confirming
manually. The following conditions have to be achieved to get to the next component. These are
pre-set from the factory.
Automatically:
Stable time (time without weight change): 5 seconds
Tolerance (deviation from the target weight): +-5%
i.e.: x* seconds after reaching these conditions the system changes to the next component (*you
determine the time x for every feed component in the TMR pilot under feed components/load
delay in seconds)
(i.e.: If the target weight of +-5% has been achieved and if this weight remains stable for five
seconds, there is an automatic jump to the next component after x seconds.)
Manual:
Stable time (time without weight change): 5 seconds
Tolerance (deviation from the target weight): +-5%
(i.e.: If the target weight of +-5% has been achieved and if this weight remains stable for five
seconds, then you can jump manually to the next component after x seconds.)
Pause:
During the loading process, you can press Pause to freeze the weight (e.g. if the feeder wagon has
to be moved and the weight must not change due to the distances travelled). This pause function
can also be used automatically after every component. This makes sense if the mixer wagon/self-
propelled feeder will travel after every component.
Using the key Resume you end the pause function.
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4.2. Administer/Collect refusals
If instead you want to
administer and record
remaining food quantities,
then select Collect
refusals.
Record the remaining food
quantities and put them
into the food mixer wagon.
You confirm the quantity
recorded with Done.
Now allocate the remaining
food quantities to the
respective groups and
confirm the selection with
OK. Here you can also add
or change groups (pen).
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5. Unloading the ration
Now all feed data are saved on the Internet in the TMR pilot.
Once the loading process
has ended, the unloading
process can begin. To do
this press Start unloading
to unload the ration.
The removal process can be
completed using the
Complete button.
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Frequently Asked Questions
‘I don’t have a Bluetooth connection to my transceiver box. What can I do?’
Ensure that the Bluetooth connection is active. This can be checked in the start screen. Select
Bluetooth to turn it on.
Then turn the transceiver box off and back on.
‘I have no further connection to my data. How can I proceed here?’
Possible cause: If the PDA no longer gets enough electricity (battery too weak), it could turn off the
telephone connection automatically. In such a case the data connection will no longer work.
Ensure that the telephone is set to On. If not, go to the start screen and select the symbol Wireless
manager.
Bluetooth connection
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‘The PDA constantly tries to reconnect without establishing a connection with the feed mixer
wagon.’
Ensure that the weighing equipment and the Dairy Feeder transceiver box (LED displays have to
light up) are switched on. Green LED: Power supply active; blue LED Bluetooth unit active; red LED:
Error
If the error still occurs, check whether the same COM port has been selected in the Windows
settings and in the Dairy Feeder.
‘I cannot go to another feed component if I have not completely achieved the target weight
but am within the tolerance range.’
The system has been set so that if the target weight has been exceeded, you can get to the next
components. If you also want to change to the next feed component when below the target weight
and within the tolerance range, then you can deactivate this function.
‘If I move the feeder mixer wagon/self-propelled feeder, weight deviation occurs due to the
route travelled. This affects the recording of the weight in the system. How can I change
this?’
After filling one component and before moving, you can push PAUSE. Before loading the next
components, it is deactivated again by pressing RESET. If moving the mixer wagon from
component to component is a daily task, then we recommend that the system goes into AUTO
PAUSE after every component loaded.
Power supply
Telephone connection
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‘Theoretically I can fill more feed into the mixer wagon than its capacity.’
To tell the system the maximum weight, enter this value in Settings.
‘The system does not jump to the next feed component even though the target weight
tolerance range has been achieved.’
Change the tolerance setting from 100 kg/sec to e.g. 110 kg/sec.