Guides
Sound like the expert in the room.
Written for the person who has to answer a client on the spot. No jargon for its own sake, no lectures — just the answer, and why it is the answer.
Pixel pitch
Pixel pitch, and how to stop over-specifying it
Pitch is the number every LED conversation starts with and the one most often chosen wrong — usually too fine, occasionally too coarse, almost never by calculation.
8 min read
Viewing distance
Viewing distance: three numbers, three different questions
Every data sheet prints a viewing distance. Almost none of them says which of the three it means, which is why two suppliers quoting the same pitch can look like they disagree.
7 min read
Quoting an LED wall
How to quote an LED video wall
The specification is the easy half. This is the other half: the nine links that turn a wall into a number, and the three places that number quietly stops adding up.
11 min read
Cabinet sizes
Cabinet sizes, and why 600 × 337.5 mm won
A wall is a whole number of cabinets. Everything else — resolution, ratio, whether it fits the opening — follows from that one constraint and the format the maker chose.
8 min read
Power, weight and heat
Power, weight and heat: the three figures somebody else needs
The electrician, the structural engineer and the HVAC consultant each want one number from you, and each of them wants a different one from the one on the front of the data sheet.
9 min read
SMD, IMD, COB and MIP
SMD, IMD, COB and MIP — what actually differs
Packaging is the axis the industry now argues along, and the four acronyms describe genuinely different products rather than four names for the same thing.
9 min read
Glossary
LED display glossary
The vocabulary a quotation assumes you already know, defined once, in the sense the trade actually uses.
10 min read
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Every figure these guides explain is one the free configurator works out for you, on a real wall, in a few seconds.