Well believe it or not, the GPS technology has been around for awhile for a combine to report functions to the factory automatically. Over the road trucks have had it for some time now. The last new combine technology I've been involved with was five years ago and a lot has changed since then.
A Lexion combine I was driving in Oklahoma shucked the hydro when I was moving to another field on HWY 183. We pulled it to the next town. The service tech came and plugged his laptop into it and showed us all the times the hydro had been overheated including the date and time of day. Turned out to be the overheating was done a year before in southwest Oklahoma when the young operator got it stuck several times and wouldn't give up trying to get himself out.
The computer on these machines senses the impulses from the alternator and if it quits charging every function on the separator part of the machine quits. All you can do is drive it down the road. If the tank's full and a rain is coming, that's tough! Gotta put a $1000.00 alternator on it first. Alternators on new machines are so loaded down they just don't last that long in the heat.
If the generator quits on an old 101 or 303 you keep running till the engine sputters and quits, which could be the rest of the day. There's no need to worry about the air conditioning dragging down the battery.Jim
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