The entry grade of BARNEYE precision soaking: one DB7 controller, a row of DB3 motion soakers, and no water wasted on a full feedline that is mostly empty.
TargetSoak Basic is the entry grade of the BARNEYE precision soaking system. It is built from two pieces of hardware: a DB7 Smart Soaking Controller and a line of DB3 Motion Soakers clamped along the feed rail.
The DB7 switches up to eight soaking circuits and holds the soaking strategy. Each DB3 watches its own stretch of feedline: when a cow puts her head through the rail the circuit opens and wets the feed; when she steps back it closes. Nothing is soaked on a timer, and no water lands on an alley where no cow is standing.
Because the sensing, the status lights and the solenoid valve are already assembled inside the DB3 enclosure, the whole system runs on 24 V DC — no separate valve rail, no junction boxes hanging off the feedline, and no per-unit calibration on site.
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Two part numbers do the work, and one of them is optional. The feedline, the water line and the service end of the barn are all reused as they stand.
The brain of the system. Eight individually switched 24 V outputs, one per soaking circuit, with three operating modes and a front panel that works fully offline. Connect it to the BARNEYE platform when you want strategies set remotely.
The field unit. Motion sensing, three indicator lights and the 24 V solenoid valve are assembled inside one standardised enclosure that clamps straight onto the feedline rail at 1.8–2.0 m — high enough to look down into the feed space and out of reach of the animals.
The uplink that puts the barn on the farm network. Multi-WAN and gigabit, on a DIN rail, so the platform can reach the controller and keep reaching it when one WAN drops. Without it the system still runs locally — it just stops being remote.
A typical four-row barn: two 5.5 m central feed alleys, a 10 m cow crossing through the middle and eight groups of pens. Soaking is concentrated on the two feed alleys — the only place the cows actually stand long enough to need cooling.
Example layoutThis drawing is an example. Its basic conditions come from Live Barn and it is not an actual dairy barn — it shows how a layout is put together and must not be used as a configuration reference for any real project.Talk to us and we will prepare a solution for your barn
Four things change the day the system is commissioned — and three of them are about the installation rather than the cows.
A circuit opens only where a cow is feeding. Across BARNEYE motion-soaking installations this removes more than 60 % of soaking water use compared with conventional timed soaking — and because only a few circuits are ever open at once, the demand on the water line drops with it.
Every DB3 is a finished, standardised unit. Clamp it to the rail, give it a 24 V feed, and it is working — there is no valve to plumb separately, no sensor to aim and no board to configure. Coverage is set by spacing along the rail, not by tuning each unit on site.
Sensing, indicators and the solenoid valve live inside one IP66 enclosure. That removes the separate valve rail, the junction boxes hanging off the feedline and the loose cabling that cows work against — and it removes the usual source of call-outs.
Bracket mounting, 24 V DC throughout and eight circuits per cabinet mean short cable runs and few enclosures. The identical enclosures also give the whole barn a clean, consistent appearance that a mix of owner-supplied valves and boxes never quite reaches.
Open either device for its full specification, detection pattern, mounting height and wiring detail.
DB7 Smart Soaking Controller
Eight switched 24 V outputs, three operating modes and both local and remote configuration — the control cabinet the whole system hangs off.
Hardware overview
DB3 Motion Soaker
Motion detection, status indicators and the 24 V solenoid valve in one IP66 enclosure, with a 304 stainless bracket that clamps to the feedline rail.
Hardware overview
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