Instruction Manual Milk & Go 3.0

General:

The Milk & Go 3.0 is a collaboration with Melk-drive Genderen and has been developed in order to stimulate cows to leave the milking robot immediately after milking has finished. This way manuring of the robot can be largely prevented. The Milk & Go 3.0 has been specifically developed to be attached to a milking robot with a pneumatic system for the expulsion of the cows. The Milk & Go 3.0 is not allowed to be used for other purposes.

Use:

Lamp, will illuminate with every current pulse given by Milk & Go 3.0. It is possible that the light lights up weak when transmitting a pulse on a cow.
Test button, push this button to test your Milk & Go 3.0, e.g. when you think the batteries are dead. When pressing the test button the lamp will illuminate with every current pulse. Additionally, the cow present in the robot will react to the pulse.
Air connection (black)
High voltage connection (black)
Earth/ground connection (green)
On/off switch, to switch the Milk & Go 3.0 on or off. Only after switching the Milk & Go 3.0 on you can use the test button.
Batteries, unscrew the two screws on the side to replace batteries if necessary. Replace the batteries and place the cover back on and fasten with the screws to ensure a dust and splash proof device.

Installation:

Check if the air pulse of the milking robot gets activated when the exit gate of the robot has been open for more than 10 seconds. The cow must get the opportunity to leave the robot before it receives a pulse. Adjust this on the robot’s installation program as shown below or ensure to have this installed on the robot before you put de Milk & Go 3.0 into service.

- Open the basic screen of your VMS client program on your pc.

- Click on ‘units’ in the menu list on the left and then double click on ‘VMS milking station’.

- Now you have the choice from different tabs, click on ‘cow traffic’.

- Tick the box for ‘applying mechanical expulsion system ’, adjust the number of seconds until the expulsion system starts at ‘15 sec’.

After approximately 2 months, when the cows have got used to the Milk & go 3.0, this can be decreased to 10 seconds for a faster passing through.

2. You can easily attach the Milk & Go 3.0 on the upper side of the milking robot with the hook supplied. (The Milk & Go 3.0 is dust proof and resistant to splashing water as long as the housing is closed.)

3. Screw the mounting bracket (with attached swivel) together with the two supplied M6 bolts to the robot frame in the already existing holes of the robot frame, above the buttocks of the cow. To ensure the bracket does not detach, you can secure the bolts with the two extra M6 washers and nuts that are supplied.

5. Attach the eye at the end of the green ground wire to the mounting bracket with one of the M6 bolts to the robot frame.

6. Pull the black air hose to the point above the milking robot where the blower hose originally hung. Detach the end of the air hose from the milking robot by pushing the ring inwards and pull out the air hose. Connect this to the coupling (already attached to the air hose) of the black air hose of the Milk & Go 3.0.

NOTE: When bundling, make sure that the air hose is not squeezed and do not shorten the air hose!

4. Pull the black high-voltage wire from the red knob of the Milk & Go 3.0 to the mounting bracket. Loosen the terminal block with the electric fence wire and thread the high-voltage cable through the gland in the mounting bracket. Attach the terminal block with an electric fence wire in the same way. This piece of electric fence wire should be long enough to touch the back of your smallest cow. The electric fence wire must not touch the robot, if necessary you may shorten the electric fence wire.

Testing:

Turn the Milk & Go 3.0 on by putting the black switch (no.6) on position I (on).
Press and hold the test button (no.2) and check if the test lamp (no.1) is blinking. If the lamp is blinking, move on to step 4.
Replace the batteries (see explanation on changing batteries p.6) and restart at step 1. If your Milk & Go 3.0 is still not working after replacing the batteries, contact your dealer.
Grab hold of the electric wire with isolated pliers and keep this at 1mm distance from a part of the frame of the milking robot, which has not been lacquered. Keep and hold the test button (no.2) of the Milk & Go 3.0, if you see a spark move on to step 7.
Check if the ground wire is well connected/attached correctly.
Check if the high voltage wire is well connected/attached correctly, go back to step 4.
Test the installation now by preventing a cow from walking out of the milking robot after milking. The air pulse of the robot should be converted into a current pulse. Your Milk & Go 3 is working if your cow gives a reactionto the pulse. Move on to step 11.
Detach the air hose. Test the installation again as described above (step 7) and verify that there is an air blast coming out. If that is the case, connect the air hose again and go back to step 7.
Check if the air hose is squeezed closed/ disconnected.
Check the settings on the milking robot (see p.2). Go back to step 8. If your Milk & Go 3.0 is still not functioning after checking the settings, contact your dealer.
Your Milk & Go functions well.

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