We manufacture fixed LED walls in Győr and install them on the Istrian coast. This page is written as a sequence of decisions, in the order they actually have to be taken, from choosing a site that can realistically carry a display to specifying an enclosure that will survive salt air, and finally to organising a 613 kilometre installation as the two-day operation it genuinely is.
LED wall in Pula — manufacturing, installation, quote
Pula is two settlements sharing one name. Inside the ring formed by the Arena, the Forum, the Arch of the Sergii and the Kaštel, almost nothing may be added to a facade without a conversation with the conservation service, and a large illuminated display is rarely the outcome of that conversation. Outside it — along the road to Vodnjan, up at Šijana, out towards the airport at Valtura, around the hotels on Verudela and at the retail sites on the edge of town — the constraints are ordinary and the opportunities are considerable, because a city of some 52,000 residents receives many times that number of visitors between June and September. Deciding which of the two cities your premises stands in is not a formality. It determines whether the project is a screen, a sign, or nothing at all.
Rule the protected core in or out before anything else
The answer changes the whole project
If the premises face Sergijevaca, Kandlerova, the Forum or any of the streets within the historic centre, begin by accepting that a bright, changing display is a difficult proposition there, and that the alternatives — discreet illuminated lettering, an interior screen set back from the glazing — may serve you better and be achievable this season rather than next. If the premises are at Šijana, on the Vodnjan road, at a hotel on Verudela or on a commercial site near the airport, the question becomes an ordinary technical one. We will tell you which category you are in at the enquiry stage, from photographs, because the answer changes the design, the budget and the timetable.
Put a rolling poster where the building may not be touched
Nothing drilled, nothing anchored, nothing to reinstate
Inside the protected core the shortest route to a moving picture is often the one that never reaches the wall. The poster stands free on its own weighted base, takes no anchor and leaves no hole, so a tenant near the Giardini can put a display in a doorway without opening a discussion about the fabric of the building. Four units in a row occupy 256 centimetres of width and stand 192 high, which suits a wide shopfront, while a single unit suits a narrow one. Because nothing is fixed, the display can also be withdrawn at the end of a tenancy exactly as it came in, which is worth knowing in a leased unit at Max City Pula too.
Specify for salt before you specify for sunlight
The coast attacks the metalwork, not the pixels
Airborne salt reaches inland in Pula on a strong sirocco, and its effect is cumulative and unforgiving. The screen face itself, sealed to IP65, is the least of the problem. The vulnerable parts are the fixings, the supporting frame, the cable glands and the earthing connections, and they are specified in stainless or in properly coated and isolated metals with no mixed pairs that will corrode where they touch. Any ventilation is filtered rather than open. On a seafront position this specification is not optional, and the difference in first cost is small next to replacing a corroded frame in the fourth year.
Match the pitch to the actual standing distance
Walk the site, then choose
Choose the pixel pitch by going to the position from which people will read the wall. A screen inside a hotel lobby or a showroom, read from three or four metres, calls for P1.5 to P2.5. One read from across a forecourt or a room, at eight to fifteen metres, sits comfortably in the P2.5 to P4 band. A display on a frontage facing a road and a car park, at twenty metres and beyond, is properly served by P4 to P8, and a finer pitch there is money spent on detail the eye cannot resolve. Where two audiences exist, size the screen for the far one and let the near one enjoy the surplus.
Plan the supply, the signal and the night-time behaviour together
Three decisions that interact
Outdoors the wall is built for 4,500 to 5,500 nits, indoors for 700 to 800, and in both cases the working level is set by a sensor rather than fixed. On a coastal frontage the night setting deserves particular care, because a screen throwing light towards a promenade, a hotel terrace or a residential window is the kind of installation that ends up switched off by agreement. Material reaches the panels either live on HDMI or as a dated playlist, refreshed across the network, from a memory stick, or without any cable at all — and it is that last option which spares an old building a new data run through its walls. Agree who will produce content before the wall is commissioned, not after.
Book the 613 kilometre job as two days
Preparation, accommodation and a realistic handover
The road distance from our works in Győr to Pula is 613 kilometres, and pretending that is a day trip serves nobody. We plan an installation as a preparation day and travel, an overnight stay, and a full working day on site, which leaves time for calibration and for a proper handover session with your staff rather than a rushed demonstration before the drive home. The road journey, the hotel and the subsistence are printed as their own figures in the offer with the kilometres alongside, kept clear of the price of the panels themselves. The guarantee period is a year or two, and replacement tiles travel with the order, which lets your own staff close out a single failure on the spot rather than waiting on a crossing of two borders.
