Chris Drives To Surat

Schools out and Chris went and got his learners permit.  For a bit of driving practice, we drove to Surat.  I actually had another reason and that was that we have added remote monitoring to the Nutridose and this was the first field installation.  I wanted to meet the installer and ensure that the system went in and worked.

Below we see the main water tank (Silver) and the feed supplement tank (Green).

Even though the Nutridose is in a weatherproof box, Farmers often place that box under cover.  Using an old fridge is not uncommon.

Landscape -
The cattle are way off in the distance at the end of the black pipe.

The white square is the satellite terminal.  It communicates with our server.  The farmer can view the status of the equipment and control it via a web page.

In the foreground, the short white pipe is the conductivity probe.  It is placed downstream of the injection point so that the injected supplement has time to mix with the water.

This is a key safety feature.

One of the problems with feed supplements is that if something goes wrong and the cattle get too much supplement then they die.  That is a very bad thing and so we have gone to a lot of trouble to make a very reliable system with several safety features and interlocks.

Installing the tank level meter.
The tank level amongst other parameters is reported back over the satellite so the supplement tank can be refilled when it is getting low.

If you want to freak out a learner driver get on a dirt road with a road train coming past.

No stopping because if there is one behind you then they wont see you because of the dust.