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Cleaning Plant Manual

OATS

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Setting up plant for cleaning Oats

Machines to use: Air and screen

Indents
Color sorter.

Insert and remove Vibe conveyor slots as required to allow grain to reach desired machines.

Setting the Air and screen: Firstly, use sample to determine screen sizes.

Note: Usually go down one size from what you think you need on the
bottom as the machine shakes a lot more then you can.

If less than 8 of that size is available, use the determined size in the front
and one size smaller in the back.

Set gate opening to slot #4

This setting will determine how full the screens are with the
product. It also determines the amount of grain reaching
every machine after.

Set upper air to #4

The upper air creates suction and will remove most light, larger materials. Having
it open to much will eventually suck up grain.
If straw makes it into clean sample, increase the air.
If good grain makes it to screenings run, decrease air.

Setting the indent:

Upper trough setting.

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Set to #5 for oats.

This cuts longs from shorts.

Middle trough setting.

For this setting, a good number to start at is #7.

The higher the # the less it cuts.
It cuts Longs from longs, if the
desired size sample has to much
undesired longs, adjust to a
lower number to cut more.

Bottom trough setting.

A respectable number to start here will be #8

The lower the # the more it cuts.

It cuts short from short, if the desired size sample has to many
short grains, adjust to a higher number to cut more.

Set the bin opening slides.

Use the second line to start, there are 3 slides that determine the amount of grain
entering the machine, you should aim for even grain flow out of every shoot. If 2
out of 3 have less flow, try closing the one with more grain slightly to allow grain to
flow evenly in hopper to reach others.

Setting the color sorter.

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Select appropriate scheme:

4-OATS REMOVE WILD OATS & WHEAT

Setting the sensitivity and purity:

Sensitivity defines how much of the full

algorithm is being used to detect defects.
If Wild oats, Ergot, Wheat or Greens are found in
the clean sample, higher the sensitivity.
Note: If the sensitivity is to high it will start
ejecting good grain!

Purity defines how many pixels are looked at for defects, if the given number of pixels are considered
defects that material will be kicked. Having this number to small will likely over-eject materials,
conversely having it too large means under-ejection will occur. If the difference is on a single piece of
material, for example a bit of fusarium on wheat (but not the whole seed), the Purity should be small
enough to detect the area infected, but not too large that it includes part of the good seed.

Setting the feed:

Usually 80% will be a good starting point.
After plant is started this should be adjusted to the point where grain can be seen in the window of the
hopper above the color sorter to ensure even flow into all the slides. Then adjust the Feed to where the
level stays constant.

Note: Running it at a high level might plug the leg when the job is aborted with grain in the system and
then started again as grain will start flowing into the hopper before the color sorter eventually starts.

Be sure to save any adjustments before shutting the machine down at the end of the day.

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LV Controls:

Gate setting for 1-9:

It is always good practice to start

the job at a small gate setting to
ensure everything is working good,
then gradually increase and keep
an eye on leg and machine
capacity.
5.6 sec on gate should be roughly
maximum capacity, that is where
you would want to be.

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