This page is deliberately blunt about distance. It explains which LED products genuinely work for a client in Metkovic, how the wheeled poster changes the arithmetic when a crew journey is measured in days rather than hours, what the delta climate does to equipment, and - equally important - the jobs for which you should be using a firm from Split or Dubrovnik instead of us.
LED wall in Metković — manufacturing, installation, quote
Metkovic is the furthest point in Croatia that we cover at all: 820 road kilometres from our workshop in Gyor, down in the Neretva delta, nearer to Dubrovnik at around a hundred kilometres than to Zagreb at close to five hundred. Fifteen thousand people live in a town built along a navigable river, with a working river port, a border crossing to Bosnia and Herzegovina at Doljani a few minutes away, and mandarin plantations covering the reclaimed land in every direction. Nothing about that is like the towns further north on this site, and pretending otherwise would produce a page that sells you the wrong thing.
What does 820 kilometres actually change?
The honest version, before anything is quoted
A crew leaving Gyor for Metkovic is not making a trip; it is making a small expedition. The drive is most of a working day in each direction, so a mounted installation means three days minimum: travel, build, return, with two hotel nights and a border crossing in each direction. A single fault visit afterwards costs the same again. For a four square metre indoor screen that is a travel bill out of all proportion to the equipment. We would rather set that out at the start than discover it at the quotation stage. It leads to a clear rule for this town: products that ship and that you install yourself are a good idea here, and products that require our hands on site need to be large enough, or valuable enough to your business, to justify a three-day operation. Everything below follows from that.
Which products ship well to the delta?
Self-installed equipment against built structures
The wheeled poster arrives as a finished object on a pallet: you take off the wrapping, stand it up, and connect it. A small indoor wall in a kit, supplied with the frame pre-assembled and the panels numbered, can be put together by a competent local electrician working from our drawings, with us on a video call. Text boards are fitted by anyone comfortable on a stepladder. All three of those we are happy to sell into Metkovic without ever sending a vehicle. What does not ship well is anything where the fixing is the difficult part - a facade wall on a building of uncertain construction, a large outdoor structure needing groundwork, or a screen that has to be aligned across several metres to a tolerance the eye will notice. Those need people on site, and at this range the people cost more than the picture.
Can several posters make one large screen?
Starting with one unit and growing later
Yes, and in Metkovic this is the single most useful thing to know about the product. The posters are not only stood side by side as separate placards; their controllers can be chained so that a row of units behaves as one continuous picture surface, with a single image or video spanning the whole width rather than repeating on each unit. The practical consequence is that you do not have to decide the final size at the outset. A hotel on the riverfront, a car dealership on the road towards Opuzen, or the foyer of the Gradsko kulturno srediste can buy one unit this year, see whether it earns its keep, and add a second and a third later, joining them into a wider surface without replacing anything. From 820 kilometres away that is worth a great deal, because each expansion arrives by carrier rather than by crew, and it is the customer who decides the pace.
What does the Neretva climate do to equipment?
Humidity, salt air, insects and summer heat
The delta is a demanding environment in ways that inland Slavonia is not. Humidity is high for much of the year, the sea is close enough that salt reaches the air, summer temperatures are among the highest in the country, and the marshland produces insects that find their way into any enclosure with a gap in it. Equipment specified casually for outdoor use here will not last. So the outdoor specification we quote for Metkovic is the sealed cabinet type, IP65 throughout, with the connector entries sealed rather than merely covered, and with brightness in the 4,500 to 5,500 nit region so the picture holds up against a delta summer noon. Ventilation is designed as a closed path rather than an open one. Indoors, the concern reverses: an air-conditioned room in August produces condensation on cold surfaces, so a screen should not be mounted directly in the path of a cooling unit.
Where should you not be buying from us?
The jobs a coastal firm will do better
There are cases where we are the wrong supplier and it is more useful to say so. If you need a large outdoor screen fixed to a building, with scaffolding, groundwork or an access platform, a company based in Split or Dubrovnik will do it at a fraction of the mobilisation cost and can return within an hour when something needs adjusting. If you need same-week emergency attendance - a screen at a venue that cannot go dark - the distance makes us unsuitable however good the equipment is. If the project is small, fixed, and requires our presence, the travel will dominate the invoice and you will not be pleased with it. What we are genuinely good for in Metkovic is manufactured equipment shipped to you: posters, kit-form indoor walls, text boards and illuminated signage assemblies, backed by remote support and by spares held in your own building. Between those two lists there is a real boundary, and we would rather draw it than blur it.
How is the distance handled after the sale?
Spares, remote diagnosis and the local electrician
Support at this range is built on three things. First, spares travel with the order - panels, a power supply, and the small parts that fail - so the components needed for the likely faults are already inside your building on the day of delivery. Second, the controller is reachable remotely, so we can look at what the equipment is doing, read its logs and reload content without anyone travelling. Third, we write the physical procedures for a local electrician rather than for a specialist, with photographs, so the person who changes a module has never needed to see one of our screens before. Cover of one or two years is included depending on the build ordered, and it stands whether the module swap is done by your electrician or by us. Where a site visit genuinely is needed, the journey, the crew allowance and the hotel nights are itemised in advance on their own lines, never rolled into the equipment price, so that you can weigh the visit against simply shipping a replacement part.
