Published in Scientific Papers. Series A. Agronomy, Vol. LXV, Issue 1
Written by Dimitar KEHAYOV, Ilian BOJKOV, Ivan ZAHARIEV
Increasingly, work is being done to replace the mechanical gearbox for driving the shaft of seed drills with electric ones. To achieve this, it is necessary to determine the transfer function of the drive system. A stage in its definition is to determine the quantity and volume of seeds sown per revolution of the sowing apparatus. In the present study, a tooth (pin) sowing apparatus was used for sowing wheat with a Saxonia A200 seeder. The seed density is 825 kg.m-3. It found that for 1 revolution of the sowing apparatus 29.77 g of seed were sown, and their volume was 0.0000360646 m3.
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