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It’s been two years since the arrival of the Jacobsen Eclipse 322 hybrid greens mower and, after much anticipation and speculation, it’s been a rather pleasant experience - explains Damian Wormald, Head Groundkeeper!
For us the choice of new ride-on greens mower was simple; after purchasing three battery powered Eclipse 122 walk-behinds in 2011, the natural progression was to go with the 322 triplex.
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We opted for the diesel-electric version complete with 11 blade XP cutting units and these were equipped with grooved front rollers, front brushes and, of course, powered rear roller brushes; all in all a very good package. The first thing that I must mention about this mower is the ease of operation; the Eclipse drives like any other triplex; forward/reverse is on the footplate with the PTO, joystick, and independent cutting reel switches all situated on the control arm, where you will also find a small LCD screen. However, this is where the similarities end.
To my knowledge, this is the only greens mower that can give you, the operator, feedback as you are mowing or travelling between greens. The information is displayed on the LCD screen and this ranges from a ‘pre-mow’ switch check to reel speed, reel temperature, cutting speed; the list goes on and all this information is there to help you …. so my advice to all Eclipse owners is use it!
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However, by far and away, the best feature on this machine is the ability to change the frequency of cut (FOC) or to put it another way,
the number of cuts per metre. This enables Course Managers to change the FOC to suit their particular ground conditions.
So, how does this work? The speed of the reels is electronically linked to the cutting speed of the mower so, if you set the machine to produce 250 cuts per metre, however fast or slow you go across the green, it will maintain this clip rate.
This differs from a ‘standard’ hydraulically driven mower which has a constant reel speed of around 2,200 rpm. The slower you drive across the green, then more cuts per metre are produced and, heaven
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