O/T Spraying monitors

John B.

Well-known Member
Just curious! Who prefers one monitor over the other, Raven or Dickey John.

I prefer the Raven my self, but that's just what I was taught on.

I also prefer the flow meter over the flow/pressure sensor systems. The sensor you need to know the density of your liquid such as thicker materials versus water and program that into the monitor, plus you have to program you tip size into the monitor. This can change with every load of checmical you spray unless the mix is the same for each load. Or if you change your tips you need to reprogram the monitor.

A flow meter registers a gallon wether it's water or a thicker substance and tip size doesn't have to be programed into the monitor. A gallon is a gallon by measure not density. This is why I like the flow meter system.

Any other thoughts out there??
 
I use a Raven 440 console, flow metered system, with a Dickey John radar added on. The boom is a 60' Bestway mounted on a 4430 with Deere #220 saddle tanks. I like the setup I have because of the lack of a tone ring on the front wheel for speed so it changes the spray rate a little faster (Radar tone speed = 750, the tone ring I had = 452)

The only other console I used was a Hiniker and it was not a user friendly as I liked. The Raven is larger but I've dealt with worse.
 
I only ever was around the Dickey John ones, but that was when I worked there...

And yes, I agree, the flow meter systems are far more easy to set up and use than the pressure sensor ones.
 

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