XR3000 In Oregon

IAS was recently out on the beautiful coast of Oregon working with Lance Cox of Coos Curry Supply helping to establish the initial installations of XR3000-based irrigation control in the west-coast Cranberry market.

 

Lance Cox explaining XR3000

Lance Cox explaining XR3000

 Lance Cox of Coos Curry Supply explains the XR3000 system to a cranberry grower.  Lance’s expertise in hydrology is critical for local growers to help to establish the placement of soil moisture sensors.
To the right we see a typical pump-house installation.   The larger boxes on the left with the vertical rows of switches and LEDs are early production versions of the IAS Electric Pump Control Box.  This unit is designed to vastly simplify installation, to support both manual and automatic control, and to provide visual indication of which valves and pumps are currently active.

Typical Installation

Typical Installation

Electric Pump Control Box

Electric Pump Control Box

To the left is the production version of the Electric Pump Control Box.  Installation is very simply with only two plugs, one for the XR3000, and one line cord.  Since every installation is unique, the overlay leaves blanks for each output so the grower/installer can appropriately label each control.
To the right we can see an example of a HarvestWatch which has been configured with specific labels for the sensors, so that the grower can easily see the temperature and soil moisture in each bog.

HarvestWatch Customized for a Grower

HarvestWatch Customized for a Grower