Space-Age Rear View Tractor Camera

Space-Age Rear View Tractor Camera TRACTORS Accessories 17-1-22 Once you've had a look at a Same tractor fitted with the company's new Global Monitor rear viewing system, you feel like you've seen the tractor of the future. A space-age looking robot camera mounts at the back edge of the cab roof. The motorized camera rotates back and forth 90? and up and down 75?. What makes the viewing system unique is that it feeds the picture to a TV tube mounted in the control center just ahead of the tractor operator. When you want to see what's going on behind the tractor, you simply hit a switch and the picture is right in front of you in full color. Hit the switch again and the TV screen turns into an electronic control panel, replacing all conventional gauges and readouts. If you hit the switch again, you can receive conventional television signals through the screen thanks to an antennae that also mounts on the roof of the cab. You could even hook the screen into a computer if you had one on board. The Global Monitor is on the market in Europe but has not yet been exported to North America. It adds several thousand dollars to the cost of a tractor. Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Same Trattori V.le F. Cassani 15, 24047 Treviglio (BG) Italy (ph 0363 4211).

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