How Long Will A Service Take If I Send It Back During The Harvest?
In any year we receive approximately 400 – 600 instruments for service/repair. The vast majority of those come to us during the harvest period so that over a period of about 2 – 3 months we get anywhere between 200 – 400 instruments. It’s physically not possible to repair all these instruments within a week of receiving them and so turnaround times lengthen.
Much of the work we undertake is due to the lack of maintenance and care of meters and spears. Having paid several hundred pounds for the unit when new, many farmers then proceed to abuse them and do not have them serviced.
They use them to the end of the harvest and put them away, without cleaning them, in leaky sheds until next year, fully expecting them to work when they get them out again when the next harvest begins. A check of the unit in about February or March would probably let you know in plenty of time if it’s going to work, or not, when you need it.
Take advantage of our range of service contracts, which can include a loan instrument whilst yours is away, or the reduced cost service offer we run every year. Please call our Service Centre to discuss your requirements.
How Do I Check The Calibration Of My Sinar Technology Grainspear?
The best way is to send it back to the Sinar Technology Service Centre where we have all the correct equipment and calibration standards to check and adjust the instrument across it’s entire range of functionality.
I Have More Than One Moisture Meter Of The Same Model And They Give Different Results – Why?
There are two possibilities.
- All the instruments require recalibration.
- All instruments have a +/- range of error tolerance, typically between 0.3% – 0.5% depending on model, and the differences you are noticing are could be due to this.
All our instruments have the ability to have MINOR adjustments made to them by the user to remove these differences. Any major adjustments really do require a visit to our workshop to ensure that there isn’t something more fundamentaly wrong with the instrument. A minor adjustment would be up to the range of error tolerance for the individual instrument.
Purchase a known calibration standard from us (part No 1900-6352) and check your meter against them to determine which, if any, require recalibration, or in the case of GrainSpears, one of our Field Test Devices (part No 1900-6280).
Thank you for choosing the SINAR TECHNOLOGY BeanPro.
The SinarTM 6070 BeanPro Moisture Analyser houses the latest moisture measuring
technology in a compact, portable package. It has been designed to provide fast
moisture results using whole crop samples. In addition to % moisture content, the
BeanPro simultaneously measures and displays sample density in grams per litre
and sample temperature.
The BeanPro is a battery powered moisture analyser with only one operator mode
making the instrument extremely quick and easy to use.
The BeanPro can store up to twenty five different crop calibrations. Contact Sinar
Technology or your Sinar agent if your calibration requirements change.
The RS232 port on the side of the instrument can transmit time, date, moisture and
temperature data to a serial printer, data logger or PC. This data can be used to
generate your own quality assurance files
