Their's two places to my knowledge so far...
Don't have a photo to hand, but Manchester mounte them between the grab rail at the end of the wheelchair space, and the side wall of the bus, at the same height as the rear facing screen.
Same with Arriva's 74/25-plate Wright Streetdeck Electroliners in Leicester (which may have been mentioned before in this thread). The smaller 75-plate batch that followed rectified this with a slimmer forwards-facing LED display on the offside in place of the forwards-facing screen on the left that the preceding batch had.
That's pretty cool actually. I'd like to see it once you're ready if that's OKThere seems to be an understanding that there are enough PSVAIR compliant buses spare and available to cover all rail replacement work in the UK, so no grants are available for buses, only for coaches.
I have a Mobitec display and ICU602 setup going on my Citaro 2 and I’m quite happy with it. I do all the display, audio and route programming myself. On the back of this, I have purchased more kits to install in more of my buses. As I am principally a bus driver, I have been trialling it extensively while in service and refining until happy with how the announcements and displays are configured.
Currently at an advanced stage of setting it up for Welsh rail replacement routes, which have the added element of needing announcements and displays in English and Welsh. Looking forward to testing that out too
I am also going to trial a Hanover EG4 in one vehicle that already has Hanover destination displays and see how I get on with that. I’ve read about DG3 and HTC setups but I’m ok with trying the latest tech.
That is incredibly interesting, I've love to hear more.There seems to be an understanding that there are enough PSVAIR compliant buses spare and available to cover all rail replacement work in the UK, so no grants are available for buses, only for coaches.
I have a Mobitec display and ICU602 setup going on my Citaro 2 and I’m quite happy with it. I do all the display, audio and route programming myself. On the back of this, I have purchased more kits to install in more of my buses. As I am principally a bus driver, I have been trialling it extensively while in service and refining until happy with how the announcements and displays are configured.
Currently at an advanced stage of setting it up for Welsh rail replacement routes, which have the added element of needing announcements and displays in English and Welsh. Looking forward to testing that out too
I am also going to trial a Hanover EG4 in one vehicle that already has Hanover destination displays and see how I get on with that. I’ve read about DG3 and HTC setups but I’m ok with trying the latest tech.
Wow, that sounds very interesting! Would love to hear more aswell.There seems to be an understanding that there are enough PSVAIR compliant buses spare and available to cover all rail replacement work in the UK, so no grants are available for buses, only for coaches.
I have a Mobitec display and ICU602 setup going on my Citaro 2 and I’m quite happy with it. I do all the display, audio and route programming myself. On the back of this, I have purchased more kits to install in more of my buses. As I am principally a bus driver, I have been trialling it extensively while in service and refining until happy with how the announcements and displays are configured.
Currently at an advanced stage of setting it up for Welsh rail replacement routes, which have the added element of needing announcements and displays in English and Welsh. Looking forward to testing that out too
I am also going to trial a Hanover EG4 in one vehicle that already has Hanover destination displays and see how I get on with that. I’ve read about DG3 and HTC setups but I’m ok with trying the latest tech.
Thank you.It's the talking bus system brain used by Mobitec which doubles as a controller for drivers - https://www.mckennabrothers.co.uk/service/mobimaster-icu-602
I'll post more updates as I go along, busy creating more databases tonight
A pleasure to read - keep up the good work!Having tremendous amounts of fun fitting the equipment
Quite a few vehicles in my fleet are ex-London - none of them were fitted with hearing loops, so I'm progressively having them done. Having the Mobitec and Lawo blind boxes replaced with Hanover LEDs has produced some complications when fitting the Mobitec internal display, controller and integration unit, so these are all being taken apart and wired again from scratch. Further buses have entered the fleet which have Mobitec roller blinds, so hopefully will be easier to swap with Mobitec LEDs.
Meanwhile on the programming front, I'm making tracks with Mobi Info Edit Advanced and Hanover Central/HELEN. I've finally got MIE doing the announcements and internal displays just the way I want them done. I've created a separate database for the Welsh routes - spent a fair amount of time programming in the announcements and displays in both English and Welsh and will shortly be enlisting the services of a Welsh speaker to ensure pronunciation and grammatical context are spot on. I've chosen to standardise on the Welsh vocabulary used by Transport for Wales, a challenge has been to get the displays to show the characters correctly. For example, the â with the circumflex isn't available in all of the native MIE fonts, but to me it's important to get it right. My Citaro 2 is having some very heavy duty exhaust system repairs, but once it's back, testing will be done before it goes out in service next month.
While I have a Hanover EG4 on order to fit in one Citaro, another bus is entering the fleet which was specced with an older HTC/DG3 setup, so another system to get to grips with! Joy of joys!
Slightly off topic, and sorry if I have missed this in an earlier post, but do you run commercial bus services? Or do you preserve older buses?Having tremendous amounts of fun fitting the equipment
Quite a few vehicles in my fleet are ex-London - none of them were fitted with hearing loops, so I'm progressively having them done. Having the Mobitec and Lawo blind boxes replaced with Hanover LEDs has produced some complications when fitting the Mobitec internal display, controller and integration unit, so these are all being taken apart and wired again from scratch. Further buses have entered the fleet which have Mobitec roller blinds, so hopefully will be easier to swap with Mobitec LEDs.
Meanwhile on the programming front, I'm making tracks with Mobi Info Edit Advanced and Hanover Central/HELEN. I've finally got MIE doing the announcements and internal displays just the way I want them done. I've created a separate database for the Welsh routes - spent a fair amount of time programming in the announcements and displays in both English and Welsh and will shortly be enlisting the services of a Welsh speaker to ensure pronunciation and grammatical context are spot on. I've chosen to standardise on the Welsh vocabulary used by Transport for Wales, a challenge has been to get the displays to show the characters correctly. For example, the â with the circumflex isn't available in all of the native MIE fonts, but to me it's important to get it right. My Citaro 2 is having some very heavy duty exhaust system repairs, but once it's back, testing will be done before it goes out in service next month.
While I have a Hanover EG4 on order to fit in one Citaro, another bus is entering the fleet which was specced with an older HTC/DG3 setup, so another system to get to grips with! Joy of joys!
The 1/X1 services have had this male voice for quite a few years, I'm unsure if they came along with the YX23s but I remember the voice used to only be on those, until the 2014 onward requirement happened and the 16 plates started using the male voice as well.
Hanover is great! Even trentbarton are using it now on anything new and some of the retrofits.Having tremendous amounts of fun fitting the equipment
Quite a few vehicles in my fleet are ex-London - none of them were fitted with hearing loops, so I'm progressively having them done. Having the Mobitec and Lawo blind boxes replaced with Hanover LEDs has produced some complications when fitting the Mobitec internal display, controller and integration unit, so these are all being taken apart and wired again from scratch. Further buses have entered the fleet which have Mobitec roller blinds, so hopefully will be easier to swap with Mobitec LEDs.
Meanwhile on the programming front, I'm making tracks with Mobi Info Edit Advanced and Hanover Central/HELEN. I've finally got MIE doing the announcements and internal displays just the way I want them done. I've created a separate database for the Welsh routes - spent a fair amount of time programming in the announcements and displays in both English and Welsh and will shortly be enlisting the services of a Welsh speaker to ensure pronunciation and grammatical context are spot on. I've chosen to standardise on the Welsh vocabulary used by Transport for Wales, a challenge has been to get the displays to show the characters correctly. For example, the â with the circumflex isn't available in all of the native MIE fonts, but to me it's important to get it right. My Citaro 2 is having some very heavy duty exhaust system repairs, but once it's back, testing will be done before it goes out in service next month.
While I have a Hanover EG4 on order to fit in one Citaro, another bus is entering the fleet which was specced with an older HTC/DG3 setup, so another system to get to grips with! Joy of joys!
Not sure that's much of an endorsement given I've been on three of their buses since the regulations came in, and the stop announcement system was installed but broken on all three...
They'll be the Aesys ones & they are not exactly well known for reliability.
They have worked most of the time, although hanover is probably better considering it's more widespread. I'm honestly surprised Trent didn't decide to go with a Mobitec system on the ones fitted with that as it would've only required rewiring in the dests and adding a new screen.
Around the time of the rebranding with the new logo, Leicester's announcements were changed to say First Bus instead of First Leicester.
It's like with Transdev's considering you have many different stuff plugged in, like countdown, which can either be done manually or triggered by the ticketer machine automatically.
