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I Finally Got to See the Electronic Solari Board at Newark Penn Station |
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Posted by heypaul on Thu Aug 22 16:50:13 2019 I've been wanting to see the new Solari Style Destination board at Newark Penn Station for over a year. I finally went today.New Solari Style board The status column changes quite often and that is pretty good. But when the main body refreshes it's much too fast. I liked the old board much better I had a strange experience on PATH going to Newark. As the train pulled into Newark, it went into emergency 8 different times. It recharged, went forward for about 5 seconds and dumped its air. I think there was trouble with a signal that was causing this. |
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Re: I Finally Got to See the Electronic Solari Board at Newark Penn Station |
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Posted by Alan Follett on Thu Aug 22 18:11:22 2019, in response to I Finally Got to See the Electronic Solari Board at Newark Penn Station, posted by heypaul on Thu Aug 22 16:50:13 2019. Would the new board qualify as a skeuomorph? (I owe this useful term to somebody on SubChat, but I’ve forgotten who.)Alan Follett South San Francisco, CA |
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Re: I Finally Got to See the Electronic Solari Board at Newark Penn Station |
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Posted by heypaul on Thu Aug 22 18:56:28 2019, in response to Re: I Finally Got to See the Electronic Solari Board at Newark Penn Station, posted by Alan Follett on Thu Aug 22 18:11:22 2019. "Skeuomorph" was not one of the words I memorized when I prepared for the English SAT's. After looking the word up now, I think the new Newark board is skeuomorphic. |
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Re: I Finally Got to See the Electronic Solari Board at Newark Penn Station |
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Thu Aug 22 20:09:23 2019, in response to Re: I Finally Got to See the Electronic Solari Board at Newark Penn Station, posted by Alan Follett on Thu Aug 22 18:11:22 2019. It was me. |
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Re: I Finally Got to See the Electronic Solari Board at Newark Penn Station |
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Posted by SLRT on Thu Aug 22 20:10:31 2019, in response to I Finally Got to See the Electronic Solari Board at Newark Penn Station, posted by heypaul on Thu Aug 22 16:50:13 2019. It's entertaining, but why would they want to electronically simulate a Solari board? |
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Re: I Finally Got to See the Electronic Solari Board at Newark Penn Station |
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Posted by JohnL on Thu Aug 22 20:43:36 2019, in response to Re: I Finally Got to See the Electronic Solari Board at Newark Penn Station, posted by SLRT on Thu Aug 22 20:10:31 2019. I've asked myself this a number of times. There's even a loudspeaker playing clacking sounds. |
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Re: I Finally Got to See the Electronic Solari Board at Newark Penn Station |
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Posted by heypaul on Thu Aug 22 21:07:48 2019, in response to Re: I Finally Got to See the Electronic Solari Board at Newark Penn Station, posted by JohnL on Thu Aug 22 20:43:36 2019. As far as the flapping sounds, I've seen suggestions that it alerts passengers to changes on the board. |
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Re: I Finally Got to See the Electronic Solari Board at Newark Penn Station |
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Posted by heypaul on Thu Aug 22 21:41:37 2019, in response to Re: I Finally Got to See the Electronic Solari Board at Newark Penn Station, posted by SLRT on Thu Aug 22 20:10:31 2019. For those of us that dwell in the past, it's very important.As I stated in my original post about the new board, it changes too fast.I slowed it down some I just noticed that the destination plates are arranged alphabetically, although the entire name changes as one unit. |
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Re: I Finally Got to See the Electronic Solari Board at Newark Penn Station |
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Posted by JohnL on Thu Aug 22 22:22:15 2019, in response to Re: I Finally Got to See the Electronic Solari Board at Newark Penn Station, posted by heypaul on Thu Aug 22 21:07:48 2019. Interesting idea. Though at Newark (the only station I've observed the new board for a significant amount of time), the sounds are audible, but not loud enough to alert passengers over the (quite loud) ambient noise.Compare with the announcements, which are definitely audible. |
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Re: I Finally Got to See the Electronic Solari Board at Newark Penn Station |
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Posted by JohnL on Thu Aug 22 22:23:36 2019, in response to Re: I Finally Got to See the Electronic Solari Board at Newark Penn Station, posted by heypaul on Thu Aug 22 21:41:37 2019. Maybe you can write to the software designers. That's probably just a few lines of code to change the flip timing. Individual letters vs a name at a time is probably more complicated. |
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Re: I Finally Got to See the Electronic Solari Board at Newark Penn Station |
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Posted by heypaul on Thu Aug 22 22:50:47 2019, in response to Re: I Finally Got to See the Electronic Solari Board at Newark Penn Station, posted by JohnL on Thu Aug 22 22:23:36 2019. I was just looking carefully at the destinations on the old Solari board and the destinations changed as a single name, not individual letters. |
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Re: I Finally Got to See the Electronic Solari Board at Newark Penn Station |
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Posted by SLRT on Fri Aug 23 06:29:59 2019, in response to Re: I Finally Got to See the Electronic Solari Board at Newark Penn Station, posted by heypaul on Thu Aug 22 21:41:37 2019. Thanks. I got to see what only flashed by for a moment: CAPE COD as a destination. |
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