High Precision Instrumentation Package for Monitoring the Tractor Performance

(Abdulrahman Abdulkarim Badri and a sense of)

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Abstract

A high precision computerized instrumentation package was developed and mounted on a Fiat DT980 tractor to monitor the field performance parameters. The parameters included forward speed, slip, fuel consumption and drawbar pull. The data acquisition unit was based on a high speed multi processors Campbell Scientific CR9000 data logger linked to a Toshiba Tecra 8200 microcomputer. A tractor testing laboratory was established at the Agricultural and Veterinary Training and Research Station of King Faisal University for the development and calibration of the transducers. Also the laboratory included an instrumentation teaching unit.
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