(12 Jul 2015, 6:22 pm)S813 FVK wrote Are they not the same as the single door renowns only with 2 doors? Obviously not i suppose with you saying what i have quoted but it sounds quite peculiar.
No - life would be a lot easier if they did!
Most vehicles with front LED destinations have the standard 144x19 size, but there are still a large number of vehicles in the fleet with other sizes of destination display. Off the top of my head...
- 144x19 Colour Route Number - found on many vehicles in the fleet; including Scania L94s, Volvo B9TLs, etc.
- 160x19 - found on the ex-Brighton & Hove Scania OmniDekkas
- 160x19 Colour Route Number - found on many vehicles in the fleet; including Mercedes Citaros and Scania OmniCities.
- 160x17 - found on the ex-Oxford Volvo B10BLEs.
- 96x8 - standard size, used on most vehicles in the fleet.
- 128x17 - the same size in the rear of vehicles with full sized destinations, found in the ex-Brighton & Hove Scania OmniDekkas.
- 96x15(?) - used on some of the ex-Oxford Volvo B10BLEs, including the "Fab57" branded examples.
- 128x17 - standard size for full-size rears, found on many vehicles in the fleet.
- 32x17 - standard size for 'square' rears, found on many vehicles in the fleet.
- 160x24 - the smaller sized full-size rear, found on Venture Solo SRs and Citylink Versas.
- 96x17(?) - the smaller sized full-size rear, found on the Scania OmniCitys.
- 96x15(?) - used on some of the ex-Oxford Volvo B10BLEs, including the "Fab57" branded examples.
At present, each one of those different size destinations is a different sign in a depot's LED destination programme. Most bus operators use switch settings on the displays so that it knows which sign to look at in the programme, but we are now moving down the route of profiling, which means all switch settings are set to 0 (front), 1 (side) and 2 (rear) universally and we set a profile up in the programme to match up switch setting 0 to sign 4 in the programme (as an example). These are all being set up the same across all depots, meaning that nothing has to be changed when a bus moves from one depot to another.
You may think playing on HELEN is fun when you're only messing around with one sign or two, but when you're doing about 20 different signs in total for a fleet of 600 buses, different story...
