Auger Timing Effects on Performance of a Combine Unloading System

Todd Philip Cole, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Copyright 2002, the author. Used by permission.

Abstract

Performance effects were measured on a combine unloading system using three different auger timing settings.Performance measures included maximum startup torque, mean operating torque, standard deviation of the operating torque, flow rate of grain through the system, and mechanical damage to the grain.The performance effects were measured with the system unloading corn and soybeans.

The data were statistically analyzed to check for interactions between the grains and differences between the timings.Using an alpha value of 0.1 it was found that timing 1 for both grains had a 3% (

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