We designed the Pop Max backing plate to accommodate different inserts for different seeds and crops.
Find out how these different inserts make a difference
See the meter in action
We placed our high speed cameras inside a typical meter to give you a insight into some common meter problems.:
Pop Max™ backing plate boosts performance in a wide variety of seed types
This replacement backing plate has four big advantages over metal plates:
- They are flatter – eliminating the skips that occur as fingers rock and roll over the warped spots on stamped metal plates.
- They match seed size – just swap inserts and you can change the aggressiveness of the backing plate to match flats and rounds.
- They reduce ricochet – the smaller exit hole reduces the chances that seeds can ricochet back into the meter.
Population Max is a specialized poly backing plate that replaces the metal plate in your current meter. Population Max uses a special Kevlar impregnated poly to produce a flatter, more consistent platform for finger sets.
Now with an adjustable brush to quickly adapt to seed size
Flatter is better.
Stop doubles or triples. A flatter backing plate provides a solid base for fingers. In these photos, a warped metal backing plate allows fingers to hold onto a group of seeds. The result in your field is a double or triple.
See how this happens in our video clip.
Stop skips due to ricochet. The large exit hole in metal backing plates allows seeds to bounce back into the meter. The Population Max exit hole is the same size and shape as the finger. So the finger effectively closes over the exit hole preventing seeds from bouncing back into the meter.