(27 Jan 2019, 3:00 pm)N1cholas wrote Some of the prince bishops streetlites gear selection really is shocking, not only on hills but also on the flat they over rev and clunk into gear, another thing about the streetlites which is annoying is when you switch the ignition off some of them automatically switch the batteries off shutting down the whole bus, the rest give 2 mins before having to hit the battery reset switch, which when you have a 5-10 min layover, is really annoying having to restart the bus just to turn the lights back on if you have passengers on board and defeats the purpose of turning the engine off to save fuelThe battery protect system is universally in place to stop buses running flat. Batteries are really quite terrible. Take it from someone who has to cold start old london deckers every morning that it's a lot better to have to press a button than get engineers to charge it back up. Stops it running flat.
Jamie M
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RE: Go North East: Latest News & Discussion - January 2019