The questions below are the ones a client in Ptuj asks us in roughly this order, and answering them in that order is what keeps a project from being redesigned twice. The address is 239 road kilometres from our workshop near Győr, which is close enough for a single-day visit and therefore changes several of the answers.
LED wall in Ptuj — manufacturing, installation, quote
Slovenia · 239 km from our plant in Győr
Ptuj is the oldest town in Slovenia, and roughly 18 300 people live inside a plan that Roman Poetovio laid out and the Baroque rebuilt. That history decides where a large screen can plausibly go. Above the Drava the castle and the terraced roofs of the old town tolerate almost nothing on their elevations, while the newer edge of town, the spa complex, the poultry works and the retail frontage along Ormoška cesta, is where fixed surfaces are actually commissioned. Any honest conversation about a screen here starts with that split.
Does the screen belong on the elevation, or inside the building?
The first decision, and the most expensive to reverse
In the protected streets around Mestni trg the realistic answer is inside: behind the glazing of a ground floor unit, in a foyer, in a hall. An interior surface avoids the whole question of what may be attached to a historic frontage, and it is also cheaper, quieter and easier to service. Away from the core the calculation flips. A reception hall at Terme Ptuj, a canteen or a visitor centre at a manufacturing site, a frontage on the retail approach, all of these carry an external or semi-external surface without difficulty. Settle this before anybody discusses size, because the enclosure, the brightness class and the price all hang off it.
How do you get from a rough size to a buildable one?
The grid only steps in two amounts
Every panel is 32 centimetres wide and 16 centimetres high, laid flat, and it is not rotated. So a buildable width is a multiple of 32 and a buildable height a multiple of 16, with no rounding available in between. Suppose a foyer wall gives you about three and a half metres of usable width and just under two metres of height. Eleven panels across is 352 centimetres, twelve is 384; twelve rows is 192 centimetres. Pick the combination that leaves a clean margin on both sides rather than the one that fills the wall to the last centimetre, because the margin is what lets the frame be plumb on a building that is not.
Which pitch suits a spa reception, and which a plant canteen?
Distance decides, not the room's importance
A guest at a reception desk stands two or three metres from the surface and reads room numbers and treatment times, so P1.5 to P2.5 is the band that keeps small type intact. Coarser than that and the numerals begin to shimmer at close range. A canteen or a shift briefing area at a works site is viewed from five to nine metres, which puts it in the P2.5 to P4 range at a considerably better price for the same area. Anything read from a car park or the road is at twenty metres or more, where P4 to P8 is right. Give us the measured distance to the nearest viewer and the answer follows arithmetically.
What does the poster do that a mounted wall does not?
An honest comparison at 239 kilometres
The LED poster is an upright panel on a rolling base, 201 centimetres tall, 45 kilograms, with a picture area of 640 by 1920 millimetres. Nobody puts up scaffolding for it and no structural opinion is needed, because the customer wheels it into position and plugs it in. In the old town that is often the only workable answer: a hotel lobby off Mestni trg or a shop behind the arcaded frontage can have a bright, changing display without a single fixing entering a protected wall, and a folding version exists for premises that must clear the floor at night. We will not overstate the case here. Ptuj is 239 road kilometres away, which is a one-day round trip for our crew, so a mounted wall is entirely realistic for you and the installation argument is weaker than it would be at the other end of the country. Choose the poster for what it genuinely does better: no fixings, movable between the reception and the conference room, and expandable, since the built-in controllers chain so that several units drive one continuous image.
How does the picture reach the surface?
Live source, stored schedule, or both
An HDMI input treats the wall as a very large monitor, which is what you want when a presenter, a camera or a media player has to appear on it in real time. For everyday running, a schedule sits in the controller and plays without any computer being switched on, which is the arrangement most hotels and works canteens settle into. The controller joins your network over Wi-Fi as well as by cable, and that is worth knowing in a building where chasing a route for a data cable would mean disturbing plaster that nobody wants disturbed. Coverage is verified at the mounting point during the survey and written into the handover sheet.
What happens after the handover, 239 kilometres away?
Spares, cover and the shape of a service call
The consignment includes reserve panels from the same batch, and cover is one or two years according to the package agreed. Swapping a panel is a hand-tool job, so the practical arrangement is that we show two of your maintenance people how to do it on installation day and they never need to wait for us for a single dead module. At this distance a service visit is a long day rather than an overnight, which is why Ptuj is one of the easier Slovenian addresses for us to look after. Where the site is outside Hungary, the travel and the crew's daily allowance are itemised in the offer separately from the equipment, so you can see exactly what the journey costs.
