Where the air gap hurts, and where optical bonding is money wasted
One millimetre of air between the cover glass and the LCD costs light, contrast and dust control. It also saves a third of the touch cost and keeps the panel repairable. How to tell which side of that line your project is on.
Read →A television on the shop floor lasts fourteen months
Dust, heat and a 24/7 duty cycle kill consumer TVs fast. What an andon or KPI board needs instead, from panel to bracket.
Read →Retrofitting a video wall with 40 cm of rear clearance
A bank branch wall with 40 cm behind the partition: how front-service brackets changed the cost, the wiring order and the service time.
Read →The 80 mm gap that saves a video wall: a day on site with a hot lobby
A wall installed flush against plasterboard looked perfect for three weeks. Then the panels started shutting down at 2 p.m. every afternoon. Timeline of what we found.
Read →What an LED wall weighs, and why the structure matters more than the number
A 20 square metre P2.5 wall is about 600 kg of cabinets plus 200 kg of steel. Whether your building takes it is a question for a structural engineer, and here is what to hand them.
Read →Signage that fails at 10 a.m. and recovers at 5 p.m.
A mall entrance display looked broken for five hours a day and perfect for the rest. One meter reading explained it, and moving the unit fixed it.
Read →The steel frame behind a video wall: eight details that decide whether it stays flat
Nobody photographs the frame. It is the part that determines whether the wall is still aligned in year three. A checklist from our fabrication drawings.
Read →Seven days to install a 40 square metre LED wall: the actual schedule
Not a marketing timeline. This is the day-by-day plan we gave a client, including the two days that always slip and why.
Read →Cable management behind a video wall: the nine things that bite you later
Cables are the cheapest part of the project and the most common cause of a service call in year two. A list from the jobs we have had to reopen.
Read →The seam that would not close: three hours on a nine-panel wall
A 3×3 wall in a showroom had one seam 1.8 mm wider than the others. It was not a panel defect. Here is the order in which we ruled things out.
Read →Outdoor LED screen foundations: the water question comes before the concrete one
Four questions we ask before quoting an outdoor installation. Three of them are about water, and one is about what happens when the wind is not blowing the way the drawing assumed.
Read →Video wall commissioning: the 18 checks we sign off before handover
Handover is not when the picture appears. It is when every input, every preset and every failure mode has been tested. The list we actually use.
Read →A shop window screen that nobody could read: brightness, glass and reflection
A retail client installed a 2500-nit screen behind glass and it looked washed out all day. The fix was not more brightness. It was three other things.
Read →Hospital wayfinding screens: the design decisions that make people stop, not walk past
A hospital installed twelve wayfinding screens and patients still asked the reception desk. After three months of observation, the problem was the content hierarchy.
Read →A car showroom LED wall that made the paint look wrong
The dealer installed a 6 by 3 metre wall behind the cars. The silver car turned blue on camera. The problem was not the wall, it was the 6500 K lighting in the room.
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