Impact-resistant face and trim
A protective LED mask keeps air-inflated sports balls off the diodes. Micro-grooves help perceived contrast. Perimeter trim protects edges as part of the mechanical design.
Sports
LED displays for community and campus arenas
A community or campus arena is sport, graduation, concerts, and dry-floor events. XL AV specifies a large indoor LED wall that can take that calendar, with audio, lighting, and control specified as one installation.
Mixed-use indoor bowls
If the wall only works for sport, it will sit dark for commencement and concerts. The specification has to include how event staff, athletics, and facilities will actually run the room.
XL AV specifies LUXVISION PROLUX Rugged for indoor arena and gym-scale walls: impact-resistant, front-service, fanless, with onsite spares.
One processor path for the calendar
Live video, replay, sponsor inventory, and ceremony looks are layouts and playlists. The controller is sized to the pixel map. Room lighting and audio sit beside that, not in a separate silo.
We survey structure and power, install, commission, and train. The relationship does not end when the crates are empty.
Lighting
House lights for sport and ceremony are different. The wall has to remain readable in both. We operate PROLUX Rugged around 2,100 nits and coordinate lighting scenes when control is in the project.
Sound
Speech for graduations and program audio for events belong with the wall. We specify or integrate loudspeakers and DSP so the far seats can understand the room.
Control
Event staff should not need a technician to take a ceremony look. LUXVISION typically uses NovaStar processing. We train operators at commissioning.
How we deliver the project
We start with the room: dimensions, viewing distance, how it is used, structure, power, and whether audio, lighting, and live video are in the project. Then a specification, coordination with the facilities team, installation, commissioning, and operator training. Spare modules stay on site so a failed cabinet is swapped, not left dark.
Typical uses
- Sport presentation
- Graduations and concerts
- Rodeo and dry-floor events
- Sponsor inventory
PROLUX Rugged
The indoor wall
Quarter-turn metal-to-metal modules
Earlier rugged products could lose magnetic modules on a hard hit. PROLUX Rugged uses a quarter-turn metal-to-metal interlock so modules stay on the wall and still service from the front.
7-year sports-impact warranty
Current PROLUX Rugged warranty context is 7 years, including impact from air-inflated sports balls.
Full front service
Modules, cabling, and feeder access are designed from the front. That is required when a gym display is mounted tight to a wall with no rear aisle.
Fanless thermal design
Gyms collect dust. Fans ingest that dust and then fail. PROLUX Rugged uses the cabinet as a heat sink with Mean Well supplies. There is no cooling fan in the documented architecture.
Under-driven, efficient LEDs
Pixels capable of about 3,900 nits are operated around 2,100 nits. The intent is less heat and less electrical infrastructure than driving the diodes to their maximum.
- Canadian-made PROLUX Rugged indoor dvLED
- Known pitches: P3.3 and P4
- Cabinets: 1280 by 720 mm (~58") and 1600 by 900 mm (~72"), both 16:9
- Common 16:9 walls from about 116" to 347" diagonal by arraying cabinets
- Operating brightness about 2,100 nits (LED capability ~3,900 nits, under-driven)
- Up to 16-bit colour and ~4,200 Hz refresh in the documented generation
- Fanless Mean Well power supplies; no hub-board architecture
- 7-year warranty context including air-inflated ball impact
Questions
Is this a concert-only screen?
No. It is specified for mixed-use indoor calendars, including sport.
How large can it be?
Cabinet arrays follow viewing distance. Common 16:9 walls run from about 116 inches diagonal upward. We map size from the room.
Can it take sport impact?
PROLUX Rugged is an indoor gym-class platform with air-inflated sports-ball warranty context. We still survey how the wall sits relative to play.
Do you specify audio and lighting?
When the room needs them, yes. Say so in the inquiry.
Related
Talk to XL AV
Request an arena LED specification
Describe the hall, farthest seat, and the mix of sport, commencement, and events the wall has to support.