The effect of the operational characteristics of the tractor composite electronic measurement system by the standards of emotion on the performance of chisel plows in a clay loam soil

A microcontroller based instrumentation package was designed, developed and mounted on an 81 kW Massey Ferguson 399 (MF-399) tractor. This package continuously measures and monitors various performance parameters of the tractor and implement. These parameters were: actual forward speed, theoretical forward speed, slip, fuel consumption and implement draft. The package comprised of four components: power supply, transducers, data acquisition, and display unit. Power was taken from the tractor battery. The data acquisition system was capable of scanning the data at 0.1 s intervals. The system performed well during the field operations and the results obtained showed that the accuracies of the transducers were acceptable. Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE AR-SA /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin-top:0in; mso-para-margin-right:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0in; line-height:115%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;}