Illustration: An 116043-91 Drive Mount Assembly with an NGP-6055 and 115907-01A u-bolts.
Precision farming while boosting yields is critical in today's economic conditions. Through the years you have come to depend on the reliable CDS-John Blue Piston Pump for your accurate placement of liquid fertilizer.
You don't need to buy new equipment to benefit from Variable Rate Technology? A great feature of the CDS-John Blue Piston Pump, with the Variable Rate Hydraulic Drive Kit (VRH), is that you can use it on your current equipment - planters, drills, strip till and liquid applicators. Regardless if your pump is 40 years old or new, the VRH Kits will mount to your pump (LF, L, LM and NGP series piston pumps). You can have tomorrow's technology today.
Features of the CDS-John Blue Variable Rate Hydraulic Drive Kit
- Base Kit to add variable rate capacity to a CDS-John Blue Piston Pump for your planter or applicator. Other required off-the-shelf components to complete the kit are detailed in the instructions.
- Existing pumps can be easily converted to variable rate and sectional shut-off.
- A piston pump allows for quick and stable adjustment to application rates within a fraction of a second using this technology.
- With a piston pump your application rates will not change with the temperature or lack of head pressure.
- Sturdy mounting bracket attaches to the side or top of the machine's bar.
- Two types of flow control valves (servo or PWM) are available.
- Hydraulic 2-way bypass valve turns pump and liquid flow on and off.
- Hydraulic motor requires 10 GPM to run the piston pump at maximum RPM, but the system can be used at lower GPM's as the specific application allows.
- The manual speed drive system allows you to mount your pump anywhere on the machine and set the pump at a constant speed.
- The manual speed drive can also be used with other brands of hydraulic flow control valves in order to interface with controllers that are not listed below.
Variable Rate
Hydraulic Drive Kit
(for John Deere® GreenStar™ GS2 & GS3 on John Deere Planters with CANbus wiring)
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FEATURES:
- Base Kit to add variable rate capacity to a CDS-John Blue Piston Pump for the John Deere GreenStar Systems.
- Existing pumps can be easily converted to variable rate.
- Two types of flow control valves (servo or PWM).
- A piston pump allows for quick and stable adjustment to application rates within milliseconds.
- With a piston pump your application rates won't change with the temperature.
- Hydraulic 2-way bypass valve turns pump and liquid flow on and off.
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SPECIFICATIONS:
| Model |
Description |
| VRH-JD-10 |
Variable Rate Hydraulic Drive Kit for John Deere CANbus Planters using GreenStarGS2 and GS3. Includes: mounting bracket, chain, sprockets, hydraulic motor, servo flow control manifold, custom adaptor harness and setup instructions with parts listing for obtaining off-the-shelf components to complete installation. Other applications may work, but CANbus wiring must be present. |
| VRH-JD-15 |
Multi-Section Variable Rate Hydraulic Drive Kit for John Deere CANbus Planters using GreenStar GS2 and GS3. Includes same as above except for harness to control up to 7 section valves. Other applications may work, but CANbus wiring must be present. |
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Universal Rate
Speed Control System
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FEATURES:
- Base Kit to add variable rate capacity to a CDS-John Blue Piston Pump.
- Existing pumps can be easily converted to variable rate.
- A piston pump allows for quick and stable adjustment to application rates within milliseconds.
- With a piston pump your application rates won't change with the temperature.
- Hydraulic 2-way bypass valve turns pump and liquid flow on and off.
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SPECIFICATIONS:
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Description |
| VRH-MAN-10 |
Universal Rate Speed Control System. Includes manual flow control valve and optical tachometer (to set pump speed), mounting bracket, chain, sprockets, hydraulic motor with NPT ports. |
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Variable Rate
Hydraulic Drive Kit
(using Trimble/Rawson Accurate for most applications)
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FEATURES:
- Base Kit to add variable rate capacity to a CDS-John Blue Piston Pump for Rawson Accu-Rate Systems.
- Existing pumps can be easily converted to variable rate.
- A piston pump allows for quick and stable adjustment to application rates within milliseconds.
- With a piston pump your application rates won't change with the temperature.
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SPECIFICATIONS:
| Model |
Description |
| VRH-1000 |
Variable Rate Hydraulic Drive Kit using Trimble/Rawson Accurate. Includes control wiring, hydraulic motor, sprocket, mounting bracket, idler bracket, chain, pump sprocket and all necessary bolts/hardware. |
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Coming Soon!
Additional Variable Rate Hydraulic
Drive Kits for other systems!