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Re: Who's Programming These Signs?

Posted by BrianB on Mon Dec 15 06:46:11 2014, in response to Who's Programming These Signs?, posted by R36 #9346 on Fri Dec 5 10:27:56 2014.

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About signs, and why the MTA seems inconsistent.

First of all, programming Luminators is a dark alchemic science. Not easy by the least bit.

The pocatec/Axion signs have been replaced with Luminator Titans, which you would know if you actually RODE the bus instead of taking photos and foaming to hop in your POS Honda with fried lice (oops, I meant rice).

Anyway, the MTA has several different methods for burning sign programs into the coaches, and each depot has its own set of PC cards and Luminator programmer laptops to do it. As for the Twinvisions in the 5k Novas, that's a creature unto itself.

These PC cards are meant for specific series of coaches, but when the hosteler/maintainer is supposed to jump through 200 buses in a night, he or she isn't going to dig through the stack and pay close attention to what particular series the card or cord is being stuck into. If it fits and goes without errors, it gets burned onto the ODK.

So that is why these things happen.

Brian Bradford

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