Service and maintenance
Chapter 6 - page 4
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• Be sparing in the use of water in the immediate environment of electronic devices, such as the laser, the robot
control box and the multiple function control box. If possible, use a soft wet towel.
Small-sized electronic parts, such as movement inductor, infrared sensor, valve for blowing the milk delivery
line empty, and so on, require little water when cleaning.
• The entire robot, gates and control area need a good clean from time to time. If this is not carried out on a
regular basis, the cleaning operations will scare off the herd. In the worst case it could last days until the herd
visits the robot as frequent as before.
• In order to eliminate contamination in the pipelines, you should manually start a rinsing session after having
cleaned parts of the milking system by hand (see section 3.4.3 ’Set Cleaning’).
Robot arm:
Clean the laser screen/TDS
1
screen (figure 6.5) two or
three times a day using a soft cloth or towel and a little
Astri
®
-TDS. The use of this is necessary, because it
vaporises quickly. As it leaves no traces on the glass, the
outcome of the measures is not influenced.
1) TDS = Teat Detection System (where fitted)
Figure 6.4 Laser screen (old models)
Laser screen
Cleaning
brushes
Figure 6.5 TDS screen (new models)
TDS screen
Cleaning brushes