60–70% Electrical Savings & Smarter Grain Aeration

Added: 2026-05-26

[00:00:00]Oh, I bet our savings is probably 60-70% of what it was before we purchased the system. [music] Okay, I'm Tim Schalky from Southwest Nebraska. Live by the small town Lamar.

[00:00:12]We purchased this Century Pack system several years ago. We probably had it 4 or 5 years ago. Probably about 2018 or 2019 I suppose we purchased [music] it.

[00:00:24]And after we ran the first season, we went back and compared our previous seasons without it on our electrical cost and didn't realize how much we were saving with it. I bet our savings is probably 60-70% of what it was before we purchased the system. So, we purchased another system and put on our second grain site. What I like about it, you can set your run time on it, how many hours a day you want it to run.

[00:00:51]And you can set your your moisture where you want your grain to come out at. And it usually comes out just within a half a point of where you [music] have it set.

[00:01:00]So, and we put fairly wet corn in the bins.

[00:01:04][music] I mean, last year we we put up to 22-23 moisture corn in some bins and it's coming out now around 16-17 moisture. Yeah, we don't have the initial drying cost of using [music] natural gas or something like that. It's just all air dry.

[00:01:19]Cuz before we never knew, well, should we run fans today or should we not run them today? [music] We was always looking at humidity, temperature, trying to figure it out. Now it does all the calculation for [music] us and runs it at the best time it needs to in the 24-hour period.