The performance of finger meters vary when planting a range of seed sizes and shapes, leading to skips, multiples, and lost yield. PrecisionMeter uses an adjustable brush to better singulate a range of seed sizes and shapes. When planting with PrecisionMeters from Precision Planting, you can have confidence in your singulation performance.

Equipped for:

  • Corn
  • Sunflowers

Precision Planting finger meter shown with cover off

Improve Planter Performance Where it Counts – In the Meter

Ordinary finger meters have a hard time singulating, especially with a wide variety of seeds. They’ll miss one, then grab two, resulting in skips and doubles. That not only wastes seeds, it cuts your yield.

Because the components all mesh perfectly, Precision Meters hold one seed at a time, then release it. They’re engineered and built to do it again and again. You’ll see fewer skips and doubles – and higher yield.

If you don’t need a whole new meter, you can still improve your spacing with Precision Meter belts, backing plates or finger sets. Your Precision Planting dealer can test your meters and recommend upgrades.

SureFire Seed Belt

The seed belt in your finger meter is often ignored. The belt has a very important job. After the fingers have singulated a seed, the belt has to deliver that seed to the seed tube. The seed needs to be released consistently so that each seed follows the same trajectory down the tube. Current belts hand off the seed on the right, center or left side of the seed tube.

Precision Planting Sure Fire Seed Belt equipment item

SkipStop Metal Cover

Seed ricochet causes skips:

  • seeds are ejected into the belt housing
  • they bounce, rattle, and roll inside the chamber
  • often, they ricochet back, causing a skip

Precision Planting Skip Stop Metal Cover equipment item

PopulationMax

This backing plate has big advantages over metal plates. It’s flatter – eliminating the skips that occur as fingers rock and roll over the warped spots on stamped metal plates. It matches seed size – swap inserts and you can change the aggressiveness of the backing plate to match flats and rounds. The smaller exit hole reduces the chances that seeds can ricochet back into the meter.

Precision Planting Population Max finger meter backing plate equipment item

Adjustable Brush

For small seeds, just adjust the brush closer to the base of the backing plate. That way the brush aggressively reaches under the finger to reduce doubles. Then for larger seeds, adjust the brush away from the base of the backing plate. Now, the softer brush isn’t overly aggressive which can cause skips.

adjustable brush for a Precision Planting meter

Precision Fingers

Using a high speed camera, we saw:

  • existing fingers allowed flat seeds to escape
  • seeds can get pinched against the outer wall
  • round seeds can cluster under a finger

Precision Fingers fix all these critical issues.

fingers for the Precision Planting Precision Meter

Get Even More Accuracy with vSet

Precision Meters can’t be beat by any other finger meter on the market. We took what we learned about seed meters and packed it all into the vSet meter, the most accuracte seed meter on the market today.  Your finger planter can be upgraded to vacuum planter and have vSet added to it, for adjustment free accuracy that can’t be found in a finger meter. Accurate and Simple.

 

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