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Sentry
800

 

Quietly Standing Guard Over Your Crops

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Discover the Sentry 800, a high-performance frost fan designed to safeguard your crops from damaging frost. With its innovative fan design, the Sentry 800 delivers exceptional frost protection for a variety of fruits, including vineyards, apples, kiwifruit, cherries, citrus, blueberries, and avocados. Its flexible oscillation settings and adjustable rotation speed allow for precise targeting of frost-prone areas, ensuring maximum protection for your crops. Experience the quiet operation, low fuel consumption, and minimal emissions of the Sentry 800, making it the cleanest and most efficient frost fan on the market.

Fan Features
Airstream

Straightening Vanes

The Sentry 800’s straightening vanes reduce spiral motion of the exiting airstream, maintaining thrust and maximising frost protection directly to your crops.

Servicing

Hydraulic Retractable Boom

The hydraulic retractable boom provides easy access for servicing, and the tower has three height positions to suit different crops and overhead canopies.

Controls

Intuitive Digital Controls

The user-friendly digital control panel displays all machine settings, including startup and shutdown temperatures, current temperature, digital fuel gauge, hour clock, battery voltage, rotation settings, RPM, and more.

Solar

Solar Backup Charging

A solar panel provides backup charging to the battery when the fan is on standby during a frost season.

Temperature Triggered

Autostart and Shutdown

The Sentry 800 automatically starts and shuts down based on pre-set temperature settings.

Specifications
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360°

Rotation

The tower can oscillate through any angle, or continually rotate a full 360 degrees to customise your crop protection. The oscillation angle is very easily adjusted.

66 HP

Kubota Diesel Engine

Reliable and efficient Kubota 66hp Diesel engine with low emissions and fuel consumption. Engine delivers power direct to the fan shaft eliminating lost power through angle drive gearboxes and long drive shafts which is present on all other frost fans.

36 M/s

Airspeed

Aerodynamically designed shroud maximises the air flow capacity. This shroud design optimises blade performance, producing a turbo charge affect thrusting the air like a jet engine.

Coverage and Airspeed
Airspeed at full operating power36 M/s (130 kmph) (80 mph)
Based on property, terrain and crop typeUp to 7ha
Engine – Kubota
FuelDiesel
Fuel consumption13 Litres per hour (average)
Engine description4 Cylinder
Fan engine power (maximum)49 Kw (66 hp) @ 2,500 rpm
Emissions complianceTier 3
Cooling systemLiquid cooled engine
Ignition system12 V electric starter with 45 amp alt.
Capacities
Hydraulic tank5 L
Fuel tank200L
Drive Train
Heavy duty planetary drive trainEngine power direct to fan shaft
Dimensional Data
Machine height (fan in operating position)8100 mm
Machine height (fan in stowed position)3010 mm
Machine widthStowed 2200 mm / extended 810 mm
Machine length5540 mm
WHAT OUR CLIENTS SAY

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