Should EDS be installed on B9TL, B10TL & B10BLE?

• service_238

  3 Nov 10, 00:48

  Originally posted by TIB657M:

  See Hanover EDS everywhere sian already..... I want desto back!!!

  
  u go print some k? then u can have them back liao..

• Glencsoh

  3 Nov 10, 21:42

  Originally posted by Lee Teuk:

  I feel that the current Volvo B9TLs look nice and cool with plastic destination signs.

  same

• SBS 1000U

  2 Jan 11, 23:18

  How does the SBST Volvo B10BLE CNG with EDS look like???

  

• carbikebus

  3 Jan 11, 01:22

  They should install EDS on all the buses mentioned..

• SBS 1000U

  3 Jan 11, 02:19

  How the Volvo B9TL will look...

  

• S.Solitaire

  3 Jan 11, 03:26

  I would say installation for CGDE B9TL isn't a good idea... Cost, maintainance of EDS... All these need money u know? So I rather SBST use desto rather than EDS... Reason being it's cheaper, more durable and also, bug-free.

   So what will happen if a particular CDGE B9TL with EDS happened to have it's EDS corrupted? Like I said, desto can be used for years... Remember those old destos with destination indicated on the desto itself? It's still around! EDS? I think CDGE B9TL looks nice with desto... No EDS please.

• SGCar

  3 Jan 11, 14:38

  Originally posted by SBS 1000U:

  How does the SBST Volvo B10BLE CNG with EDS look like???

  

  Nice job! But what will the color of W be for 243W? :)

  Cheers.

• Bus&Soccer l0v3r (VO3x 1)

  3 Jan 11, 16:07

  Use desto better

   

   

• Gus.chong

  3 Jan 11, 19:34

  Originally posted by SGCar:

  Nice job! But what will the color of W be for 243W? :)

  Cheers.

  
  White.

• SBS9622Y

  3 Jan 11, 19:39

  Originally posted by SBS8214Z:

  EDS are more expensive and it uses electricity.
  Acrylic plates are cheaper and it is dead. nothing is needed other than a holder :D

  As demonstrated on the Batch 3 Olympians, SBST will only bother to fit an eds big enough to go into the existing desto slot. Therefore your text will be puny. Even the K230 EDS is larger than the LECIP.

• buses[IN]gapore!

  3 Jan 11, 21:05

  Maybe they might try modifying the slot to be bigger?

• SBS9622Y

  3 Jan 11, 22:29

  I doubt they would hollow out space for the eds.

• watson374

  3 Jan 11, 23:04

  Forget retrofitting EDS into older buses, it's not worth the hassle. Anyway, they will be too small, making them pointless.

  I honestly feel that the old plastic signs are better. There was a very good reason SBS held onto plastic destos on production fleets all the way up till 2006 with the CDGE B9TLs. It's cheap, nearly failsafe and legible.

  However, it would be nice if the destos were white-on-black or yellow-on-black, would be more readable.

• sBs_boy

  4 Jan 11, 09:01

  There is a very very simple reason why SBST changed their decision of using normal desto plates when designing the K230s.

• jayh272416

  4 Jan 11, 12:22

  Originally posted by sBs_boy:

  There is a very very simple reason why SBST changed their decision of using normal desto plates when designing the K230s.

  which is?

• Simply.90

  4 Jan 11, 16:13

  Originally posted by sBs_boy:

  There is a very very simple reason why SBST changed their decision of using normal desto plates when designing the K230s.

  LTA's upcoming central tendering system?

• SBS1869ERyan

  4 Jan 11, 17:50

  Originally posted by jayh272416:

  which is?

  If i am not wrong, it would be difficult to change the desto plates in a low-entry bus.

• watson374

  4 Jan 11, 20:32

  Originally posted by SBS1869ERyan:

  If i am not wrong, it would be difficult to change the desto plates in a low-entry bus.

  Highly likely, since it's much higher; on the other hand, rapidPenang used a desto slot on the side of the front windshield next to the door, and that worked fine.

• SBS8214Z

  4 Jan 11, 21:58

  Originally posted by SBS9622Y:

  As demonstrated on the Batch 3 Olympians, SBST will only bother to fit an eds big enough to go into the existing desto slot. Therefore your text will be puny. Even the K230 EDS is larger than the LECIP.

  :) But the thing is if they can put desto why not? As the director of VisionSG Group of Companies i go green, so only my K230s, OC and my citaro will get EDS, as they were designed for it. :)

• SBS8214Z

  4 Jan 11, 21:59

  Originally posted by SBS1869ERyan:

  If i am not wrong, it would be difficult to change the desto plates in a low-entry bus.

  find some ladder to climb and change it :P

• SBS9622Y

  4 Jan 11, 22:37

  Originally posted by SBS8214Z:

  find some ladder to climb and change it :P

  Which is why eds is used

• watson374

  5 Jan 11, 16:38

  Originally posted by SBS9622Y:

  Which is why eds is used

  Well, then that logic could be used to support the use of automatic WAB ramps. SBS went for manual ramps.

  So SBS should use ladders to reach the desto, since ladders are non-motorised, non-electronic hardware, just like manual ramps.

  xD

• carbikebus

  5 Jan 11, 20:14

  MKIV DMs,VO3X Batch 2 & 3,Gassies,B10TLs & B9TLs suitable for EDS.

• watson374

  5 Jan 11, 21:17

  Doesn't mean it's the best option.

• S.Solitaire

  5 Jan 11, 22:45

  Originally posted by carbikebus:

  MKIV DMs,VO3X Batch 2 & 3,Gassies,B10TLs & B9TLs suitable for EDS.

  All buses are suitable for EDS, just that some might be smaller... Because there is not enough room for the EDS.