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Combine performance monitor

  • US 4,296,409 A
  • Filed: 03/12/1979
  • Issued: 10/20/1981
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/12/1979
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A combine performance monitor for a combine having a plurality of sensor means for detecting a plurality of different operating conditions of the combine and for providing sensor signals corresponding to said conditions, said combine performance monitor comprising:

  • display means, operator accessible control and selection means and a programmable special purpose computer including means for storing a predetermined computer program, said computer being coupled to said sensor means, to said control and selection means and to said display means for calculating a plurality of values of predetermined combine functions related to combine performance in accordance with said sensor signals and with said predetermined program and for selectively energizing said display means to provide observable indications of said values, said operator accessible control and selection means and said special purpose computer including cooperating customizing means for selectively modifying said predetermined computer program in accordance with combine operating characteristics so as to customize said combine performance monitor for operation with any one of a plurality of combines having different operating characteristics.

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