Tertill T1 Manual de usuario

Document Version 17

Tertill®

Garden Weeding Robot

Owner’s Manual

Model T1

Tertill Owner’s Manual Page 2 https://www.tertill.com

Dear Tertill®Owner,

Thank you for using a Tertill in your home garden. Tertill is

reducing herbicide use, increasing home food production, and

easing the lives of gardeners everywhere.

Please take a moment to read through this manual to get

acquainted with Tertill operation and care. More information and

informative videos are available at our web site:

http://www.tertill.com

While Tertill is designed to be easy to operate, if you ever have

questions, concerns or useful feedback to provide, please don’t

hesitate to reach out to us at: support@tertill.com.

Thanks again for your purchase and welcome to our Tertill family.

Happy gardening—without the weeds.

The Tertill Team

Tertill Owner’s Manual Page 3 https://www.tertill.com

Table of Contents

QUICK START.................................................................................................................................................................4

UNPACK ................................................................................................................................................................................................... 4

CHECK POWER .......................................................................................................................................................................................... 5

PREPARE GARDEN ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 5

ACTIVATE ................................................................................................................................................................................................. 6

GLOSSARY .....................................................................................................................................................................7

ROBOTIC WEEDING........................................................................................................................................................8

GARDEN .........................................................................................................................................................................8

BOUNDARY................................................................................................................................................................................................ 8

SLOPES .................................................................................................................................................................................................... 9

SPACING................................................................................................................................................................................................... 9

STARTING CONDITIONS ............................................................................................................................................................................10

TERRAIN .................................................................................................................................................................................................10

OPERATING TERTILL ...................................................................................................................................................11

STARTING ...............................................................................................................................................................................................11

STOPPING...............................................................................................................................................................................................11

USB CHARGING .......................................................................................................................................................................................12

TERTILL ASSISTANCE .................................................................................................................................................13

STUCK....................................................................................................................................................................................................13

MUD ......................................................................................................................................................................................................13

DEBRIS ...................................................................................................................................................................................................13

SOLAR CELL ............................................................................................................................................................................................13

WHACKER WEAR ......................................................................................................................................................................................13

STORAGE .....................................................................................................................................................................14

TERTILL APP................................................................................................................................................................15

BLUETOOTH®TECHNOLOGY.......................................................................................................................................15

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS...............................................................................................................................15

TROUBLESHOOTING....................................................................................................................................................17

ADVANCED DETAILS ON TERTILL’S OPERATION........................................................................................................18

OPERATING MODES ..................................................................................................................................................................................18

PROGRAMMING PARADIGM .......................................................................................................................................................................19

SENSING................................................................................................................................................................................................. 19

SCRUBBING WEEDS ..................................................................................................................................................................................20

BIG GARDENS ..........................................................................................................................................................................................20

CAUTIONS....................................................................................................................................................................21

REGULATORY NOTES ..................................................................................................................................................22

FCC STATEMENT ....................................................................................................................................................................................22

CANADA STATEMENT...............................................................................................................................................................................23

BLUETOOTH®STATEMENT ........................................................................................................................................................................ 23

CONTACT INFORMATION............................................................................................................................................24

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Quick Start

Follow these simple steps to quickly put Tertill to work weeding your garden.

Unpack

Remove Tertill, plant guards, row guards, and other materials from the shipping box.

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Check Power

Press Tertill’s Power button. After a few seconds, the status LEDs will display a

sweeping green pattern and play an ascending tone. If they do not, Tertill needs to be

charged. You can charge Tertill by leaving it in direct sunlight for at least an hour (more

under low sunlight or low charge conditions). Or, you can charge Tertill using the USB

charging port. After turning the robot on, press and hold the power button to turn it off

while you prepare your garden. The robot plays a descending tone as it turns off.

Prepare Garden

Place a continuous barrier at least 4” (10 cm) tall around your garden. Metal, wood, brick,

or stone barriers are best; use of other materials may reduce Tertill’s coverage area.

Figure 1- Types of Boundary

Place plant and row guards around small plants and seeds. Make sure to insert the guard

into the soil up to the bent portion to firmly anchor it at a height where Tertill can detect it.

Figure 2-Plant Guard

Smooth out the soil of your garden to remove any bumps or ruts. A leaf rake does an

excellent job of achieving this. You should also remove any rocks larger than an inch.

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Activate

Place Tertill in the garden and press the button. After a few seconds the status LEDs

will display a sweeping green pattern and you will hear an ascending tone. Press the

power button again. The display will change to a green, outside-to-center pattern. After

another few seconds Tertill will begin to patrol for weeds.

Tertill will run intermittently throughout the day for one to two hours a day, choosing the

best way to operate for your garden’s temperature and sunlight conditions. When using

Tertill in a newly established garden, or after significant rain, check on Tertill daily to

detect and eliminate obstacles that may cause it to get stuck.

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Glossary

LEDs – Five colored LEDs give you information about the robot.

Solar Cell – Provides Tertill’s power from the sun.

Molded handle – Pick up Tertill with your thumb on top and to the side of the button and

your fingers in the handle depression underneath the Tertill.

Speaker – Tertill plays tones through the speaker to announce its status and intentions.

Extreme camber scrubbing wheels – Tertill’s wheels are designed to help it move about

the garden without tipping over or getting stuck. The wheels also damage sprouting

weeds before they can emerge.

USB charging port – Supplemental battery charging port (not a data connection).

Serial number – The unique serial number of your robot.

Weed sensor – When a weed comes near the sensor, Tertill activates its whacker.

Whacker string – Spinning trimmer string kills weeds before they grow tall.

Hub – Holds the replaceable whacker string.

Obstacle sensors – Sensors just inside the robot shell detect plants, wooden barriers,

metal fences, and so on.

Plant guards – Used to tell Tertill that that a particular plant is desired.

Row guards – Used to tell Tertill that that a row of plants is desired.

Spare whacker string – Replace the whacker string when it wears.

Wheel wrench – Use to remove and replace wheels if necessary.

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Robotic Weeding

Tertill is single-minded in its pursuit of weeds. It spends 100% of the daytime in your

garden either weeding or collecting energy so it can weed. Rain or shine, your robot will

weed every day.

But, Tertill doesn’t have your senses, dexterity, or brain power—it can’t weed the way you

do. Tertill follows a different strategy, one that doesn’t involve pulling weeds.

Tertill attacks weeds in two ways. As it moves and turns in the garden the robot’s

wheels scrub the soil. This damages weed sprouts and can prevent them from

emerging. Weeds that do emerge are cut down by the weed whacker. A chopped weed

may sprout again but, because Tertill comes back again and again, the weed will

eventually run out of stored energy and die.

Tertill does not navigate in a grid pattern. As it navigates the garden Tertill sometimes

hugs fences, collars, and plants and sometimes bounces away from such obstructions.

Following this strategy over time, the robot visits every reachable part of the garden.

Garden

Tertill needs a couple of features in order to work best in your garden. There are also a

few things you can do to help it work efficiently.

Boundary

A physical boundary is necessary to keep Tertill from wandering away. The boundary

must completely surround the garden and should be at least 4” (10 cm) tall. Almost

anything will work, common boundaries include:

•Wire fence (chain-link, chicken wire, hardware cloth, etc.)

•Wrought iron fence

•Stockade fence

•Landscaping timber (often used to form raised beds)

•Brick edging

•Supplied row guards

The fence must be of a height such that Tertill can touch it. Tertill performs best if its

obstacle sensors can detect the material from which the boundary is made. These

sensors do not detect non-conductive materials like plastic. Plastic fences and plastic

edging do confine Tertill but the robot will take extra time to change direction whenever

it encounters such a boundary.

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Slopes

A slope that is too steep can cause Tertill to tumble. For that reason, Tertill turns away

from any slope steeper than about 22°(40% grade). This corresponds to two units of

rise for every five units of run.

Figure 3 - Maximum slope angle

Some crops grow best on mounds of soil, but avoid building mounds with slopes

greater than 22°. Tertill may not visit the top of a mound if the angle is too large.

Spacing

Tertill must have a path to all parts of the garden. If crops are too close together the

robot will be unable to pass between them. As shown in the drawing, leave at least 12”

(30.5 cm) between plants that Tertill should navigate through. Also, leave 12” between

any plant and the boundary around the garden. Row crops should also be planted with

rows no closer than 12”. If plants tend to be bushy, increase the spacing accordingly.

Figure 4 - Garden spacing diagram

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Starting Conditions

Tertill is designed to keep weeds at bay. However, it expects to encounter weeds that

are short and just sprouting—as they are in the early spring. If Tertill is introduced later

in the season, after weeds have begun to take hold, some may be too tall to be

recognized as weeds or too tough for Tertill to cut down. If this is the case, help Tertill

get started by manually removing weeds that are too tall (greater than 1 inch or 2.5 cm)

or too robust.

Terrain

Tertill works most efficiently when the terrain in your garden is relatively smooth. Tertill

will do its best when it encounters rocks, ruts, and holes but any time it spends

negotiating such hazards is time it won’t spend weeding. We recommend removing

rocks as much as possible and raking at the beginning of the season to smooth the

garden surface.

A wide variety of surface types are acceptable to Tertill. This includes bare soil (both

soft and packed), sand, gravel, bark mulch and other materials commonly used in

gardens.

Tertill does not sense cliffs. A cliff is any drop off over which Tertill cannot safely drive.

A terraced garden, for example, has cliffs. Any cliffs in your garden should be blocked

off with a fence or the supplied row guards, otherwise Tertill may topple over it.

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