This is based on your machine. Modern Case IH & John Deere planters are coming with wet booms more and more. If you aren't sure if you have a wet boom, it's easy to check. Look for a hard pipe (usually stainless steel) that holds pressurized liquid with outlets at each row. It should be fairly obvious when you look at the tool bar.

• If you have a wet boom, choose the wet boom system.
• If you already have liquid run to each row, but you aren't currently monitoring it, you may decide the wet boom system makes more sense. You may be able to just add the flow meters by splicing them into the lines above the check valve if you used 1/4" or 3/8" OD tubing compatible with push-in fittings.
• If you don't have liquid on your machine already, choose the FlowBoard system. It will make installing liquid easier.
• If you have red-balls on the planter, choose the FlowBoards. Installation will be a snap.
• FlowBoard systems work fine on wet boom planters, but you end up bypassing the wet boom. So if you have problems with your wet boom, FlowBoards could be a great solution.
• The FlowBoard system will work on any planter and is a good default choice. If you aren't sure, choose FlowBoards.

This is pretty straight forward. Just choose the number of rows on your machine. If your machine is bigger than 36 rows, we can still help. OnSite software can easily accomodate 72+ rows. Call 605-213-1010 and we will build you a custom kit.

If you don't have a standard machine, choose the number of rows you would like to monitor. Having empty rows with no flow won't affect the software. Combining two rows into one flow meter will show double the flow rate for that row in the software. It will still work, but we do not recommend it as the software will constantly want to throw alarms for that row.

Our standard 1/4" flow meters work great for most in-furrow applications. Their ideal operating range is 0.08 - 0.5 GPM. The 3/8" flow meters have a range of 0.21 - 2.0 GPM.

For perspective, at 20" spacing and 5 MPH, the 1/4" flowmeters are ideal for rates between 4.75 GPA (at 0.08 GPM) to 29.7 GPA (at 0.5 GPM). The 3/8" Flowmeters work best between 12.47 GPA (at 0.21 GPM) up to 118.8 GPA (at 2.0 GPM).

Most customers use the 1/4" flow meters for their in-furrow application, using 3/8" flow meters for side dressing with a higher-rate product, .

This option is all about the connection from the planter to the cab. You will still have power wires and data harnesses on the planter. You will still have a power harness to the monitor in the cab. The difference is that connection over the hitch. Do you want that wireless or do you want a wire harness connecting the two?

Using the physical harness is a bit more of a pain to install, but you always get clean signal and power to the planter. If power on the planter might be an issue (which is rare nowadays), we recommend the wire harness.

That being said, we get very few complaints about the effectiveness of the bluetooth system. We have run into a few specific signal interference instances, but those are exceedingly rare. It just works. And you don't have to fish any more wires through your bar to the hitch.

Upgrading to Bluetooth costs $225, though it varies slightly from kit to kit.