A permanently installed LED surface is a building component, and it is specified in a fixed sequence: dimension, structure, pitch, exposure, signal, paperwork. Below that sequence is applied to an address in Novo mesto, 392 road kilometres from our workshop near Győr, in a form you can pass to a colleague whose job is checking numbers.
LED wall in Novo mesto — manufacturing, installation, quote
Novo mesto holds about 23 200 residents but behaves like a far bigger industrial centre, because Krka, Revoz, Adria Mobil and the automotive supplier TPV pull thousands of employees and visitors into the bend of the Krka river every working morning. The person who signs off a screen at addresses like these normally sits in a technical purchasing department. They ask for a fixing layout, a load figure and a spare-part list before they ask what it looks like, so this page is written in that order.
The finished dimension as an arithmetic result
Everything follows from 32 and 16
Our tile lies flat and is never turned on its side: 32 centimetres from edge to edge, 16 centimetres from top to bottom. Width therefore climbs in steps of 32, height in steps of 16, and nothing in between can be built. Applied to a real recess of 410 by 230 centimetres, that gives twelve tiles across and fourteen down, an active area of 384 by 224 centimetres, with the leftover few centimetres taken up by the frame and the reveal. Take the recess in six places, top, centre and bottom, then left, middle and right; the tightest pair of readings is what we design to.
The wall behind the wall
Load, anchorage and who verifies it
A surface of that size, frame included, is in the region of a hundred and fifty kilograms, and it hangs from a steel subframe rather than from the cladding. Tell us the substrate early. Rendered masonry in the historic core, precast concrete in a Bršljin production hall and an insulated sandwich panel on a newer logistics building each call for a different anchor and a different pull-out figure. We issue an anchor layout showing every fixing point and the load it carries, so your own maintenance engineer or structural consultant can approve it before a drill is picked up. Service access is settled in the same conversation: front access lets a tile be drawn out from a walkway, rear access needs roughly seventy centimetres of clear room behind the frame.
Pitch read off the shortest sightline
Reception counter, canteen, gate yard
Identify the viewer who stands closest most often and measure from that spot. At a reception counter, with somebody waiting a couple of metres away, P1.5 to P2.5 keeps lettering clean. A canteen, showroom or training room seen from roughly four to nine metres belongs in the P2.5 to P4 band. A surface facing a delivery yard or the traffic on Otoška cesta is read from twenty metres and further, where P4 to P8 is both technically right and appreciably cheaper. Write the measured distance into the order. It is the one figure that explains the cost to whoever releases the budget.
Sealed cabinet against quiet indoor panel
Exposure sets the class, not preference
Anything that meets weather is built to IP65 and runs at 4500 to 5500 nits, which is what unshaded daylight on a façade actually demands. Anything living indoors is delivered at 700 to 800 nits, and a brighter indoor panel gets dimmed within a fortnight, so the extra output is money spent on nothing. The river bend produces long autumn fogs and sharp overnight temperature drops, so an outdoor cabinet at this address is specified for its ventilation and condensation behaviour as much as for its ingress rating. Judge a position on the worst morning of the year rather than on the pleasant afternoon of the survey.
The rolling LED poster, for owners who want no builder
Wheel it in, plug it in, no structural opinion required
Not every requirement deserves a fixed installation. The LED poster is an upright digital panel on a wheeled base: 640 by 1920 millimetres of picture in a frame 201 centimetres tall, weighing 45 kilograms. There is no scaffolding, no access platform, no façade anchor and no structural sign-off, because you position it yourself and connect it to an ordinary socket. In a bank branch on Glavni trg, at a showroom entrance or in a unit at the Supernova centre, it is the thing that finally kills the printed poster and the roll-up banner. At 392 road kilometres that difference is measured in weeks. A mounted wall means a survey, a fixing drawing, a preparation day and an overnight stay for the crew. A poster is delivered and earning its keep the same week it is ordered. The frame takes P1.5 GOB, P2 GOB or P2.5 tiles at 700 to 800 nits indoors, and because the controllers chain together, several units run as one continuous picture, so you can buy one now and widen the surface later without replacing anything.
Signal, documents and 392 kilometres
Built so the journey is rarely needed
Two signal routes exist and most sites use both. An HDMI input carries a live source, so a laptop, a camera or a signage player behaves as it would on a monitor; alternatively the controller holds a timetable loaded over the network or from a USB stick and runs with no computer attached. Wi-Fi access matters in the older buildings of the centre, where a data cable to the mounting position would mean lifting a floor, so have coverage checked at the exact position during the survey. Each delivery carries reserve modules from the same production batch, and cover runs for one or two years depending on the package. A survey here fits into one long day; an installation is scheduled with a preparation day and an overnight stay, since a crew that has just driven four hours should not begin setting steel. For a site outside Hungary the travel and the daily allowance appear as their own lines in the offer, never buried in the square metre rate.
