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Division 15 DisplayingF1F2

United Kingdom

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113 The display shall include at least 20 characters.

114 The minimum character size shall be 5 mm high and 3,5 mm wide.

114a F3The display shall support the characters specified in Appendix 1 Chapter 4 ‘ Character sets ’ . The display may use simplified glyphs (e.g. accented characters may be displayed without accent, or lower case letters may be shown as upper case letters).

115 The display shall be provided with adequate non-dazzling lighting.

116 Indications shall be visible from outside the recording equipment.

117 The recording equipment shall be able to display:

  • default data,

  • data related to warnings,

  • data related to menu access,

  • other data requested by a user.

Additional information may be displayed by the recording equipment, provided that it is clearly distinguishable from information required above.

118 The display of the recording equipment shall use the pictograms or pictogram combinations listed in Appendix 3. Additional pictograms or pictogram combinations may also be provided by the display, if clearly distinguishable from the aforementioned pictogram or pictogram combinations.

119 The display shall always be ON when the vehicle is moving.

120 The recording equipment may include a manual or automatic feature to turn the display OFF when the vehicle is not moving.

Displaying format is specified in Appendix 5.

  1. 15.1Default display
  2. 15.2Warning display
  3. 15.3Menu access
  4. 15.4Other displays

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Inserted by Council Regulation (EC) No 2135/98 of 24 September 1998 amending Regulation (EEC) No 3821/85 on recording equipment in road transport and Directive 88/599/EEC concerning the application of Regulations (EEC) No 3820/85 and (EEC) No 3821/85.

F2

Substituted by Commission Regulation (EC) No 1360/2002 of 13 June 2002 adapting for the seventh time to technical progress Council Regulation (EEC) No 3821/85 on recording equipment in road transport (Text with EEA relevance).

F3

Substituted by Commission Regulation (EU) No 1266/2009 of 16 December 2009 adapting for the tenth time to technical progress Council Regulation (EEC) No 3821/85 on recording equipment in road transport (Text with EEA relevance).