Detail updates enhance Bauer’s Rainstar operation

The redesigned side guard is one of several refinements to the machine, which has long been relied upon by growers of potatoes, sugar beet, and commercial horticulture crops grown across Great Britain.

“Bauer has put in a lot of R&D investment over recent years to equip the market-leading Rainstar E-series for new digital technologies, including the Smart Rain remote monitoring and control app,” notes Adrian Tindall, Bauer UK & Ireland sales manager.

“With the latest upgrades, attention has been turned to the mechanical components, mainly to improve access for servicing, maintenance and setting-up to give operators an easier time.”

Behind the new swing-out cover, previously held in place by 10 bolts, operators will find a larger battery to power the Ecostar 6000 controller with its 4.3-inch LED touch screen.

What’s included

Adrian Tindall explained: “Users can store up to 12 different irrigation programmes that define retraction speed, pre-irrigation, post-irrigation and speed zones, and then retrieve them at any time to save having to enter individual parameters for every irrigation session.”

Remote access via SMS on a mobile telephone enables irrigation managers to not only stop and start the Rainstar irrigator remotely but also adjust retraction speed, check on the status of the machine and receive error messages.

A ‘run finished’ message can be activated, and thanks to a digital input on the irrigator’s water meter, the Ecostar 6000 controller also records the session and running total of water used.

The battery itself is now kept charged by a more efficient solar panel; it is still fitted flush to the cover but can now be propped at an angle to more effectively harvest energy from the sun.

The Bauer E-series comprises five models from the E 100 to E 500, each available with different diameter and length combinations of Bauer’s own polyethylene (PE) pipe manufactured at the group’s principle factory in Voitsberg, Austria.

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