Wednesday, May 7, 2025

Signs, Signs, Everywhere Signs!

I have just finished my latest book "LED Sign Projects".  I am not happy with the cover.  Besides being off center its kind of redundant.  LOL.  Also they used to add a page saying it is a proof.  But if you were happy with it you could remove that page and sell it.  Now they have "Not for Resale" on the cover!  The proof costs about the same as buying one so why do that to it!?!?



Another cover picture was "Signs, SIgns Everywhere Signs" after the song from the 70's.  But it lacked contrast.  Most cameras do not take accurate pictures of LED signs.  Would this make a better cover image??


I just completed one of my biggest signs ever.  Its 5 feet wide and 3 feet tall, the equivalent of a 70" TV screen.  There are 30 of the 32 by 64 P5 LED panels for over 30,000 pixels.  The resulting image is awesome!  Unfortunatly the pictures did not turn out well.  

This picture was taken before I put the top and bottom aluminum rails on it.  I use Steel L brackets at the corners to reinforce them and the mounting eyelet goes into that steel L Bracket as well.  So most of the weight is carried by the vertical aluminum rails.  I use external power supplies that way it is almost flush to the wall when it is hung up.


Here are some of my other LED signs from the back side.  This is similar to the one shown above.  Note that the panel joiners are all 3D printed.  I tried 3D printing the edges but they broke too easily so I use 3/4 inch L aluminum extrusions found at most hardware stores.

This is a water resistant version featureing 4x5 or the 32x32 pixel P6 LED panels.






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