Lightbar Guidance System

The Trimble® AgGPS® EZ-Guide® 252 system combines the popular EZ-Guide Plus lightbar guidance system with the AgGPS 252 multi-function receiver. The EZ-Guide 252 system can be used as an alternative to row markers for guidance during planting as well as other row and broadacre crop operations.

The EZ-Guide 252 lightbar guidance system enables operators to choose their required level of GPS accuracy to manually steer equipment such as tractors, sprayers, fertilizer applicators, air seeders, combines and large tillage tools in consistent rows. Using the capabilities of the AgGPS 252 receiver's 4-in-1 levels of accuracy, farmers can further increase productivity, efficiency and profitability by improving in-field pass-to-pass accuracy, minimizing overlaps and skips, and lowering input costs.

The easy-to-use system provides sub-foot pass-to-pass accuracy using free WAAS (Wide Area Augmentation System) or EGNOS corrections (European Geostationary Navigation Overlay System) or better than 2-inch pass-to-pass accuracy using OmniSTAR High Performance (HP) satellite services for row crop applications. The unit is also equipped with OmniSTAR Virtual Base Station (VBS) capabilities for sub-foot pass-to-pass performance.

With a subscription to OmniSTAR HP satellite services, the EZ-Guide 252 system provides better accuracy than any other competitive lightbar guidance system on the market today. The user can select the AgGPS Autoseed™ Fast Restart technology option, which significantly reduces initialization time. Within 90 seconds of powering up, the Autoseed Fast Restart technology allows equipment operators to achieve 2-inch accuracy by simply starting up in exactly the same spot where they previously shut down in the field.

The EZ-Guide 252 system can be easily upgraded to the Trimble AgGPS Autopilot™ automated steering system and RTK (Real Time Kinematic) GPS performance for sub-inch pass-to-pass and year-to-year accuracy, if desired. The EZ-Guide 252 system can also be upgraded with a field computer for as-applied mapping, soil sampling, flow control, variable-rate management and other functions.