LED signs, churches and places of worship.
LED signs are an extremely cost-effective form of communication. A new LED sign in conjunction with your new or existing signs can cost less than 15 cents per thousand exposures while reaching the very people who are geographically close enough to act on your message immediately. How important is it for you to keep your congregation informed and growing? With an attention-grabbing LED message center, your church can reach out with inspiration and excitement to your flock as well as the surrounding community. LED displays provide energy-efficient communications 24/7, using light, color, and motion to bring greater visibility to your congregation’s programs. With the addition of an LED sign, your church can become your community’s beacon of light.
Benefits:
• Extend a warm welcome to newcomers and passer-bys
• Share daily or hourly affirmations with your whole community
• Communicate weddings, festivals and special events
• Promote school spirit, sporting events, and student activities
• Acknowledge student, staff and ministry achievements
• Seek community support for fundraising events
• Draw attention with time, temperature and date displays
An authorized reseller of Watchfire LED signs, Electra Sign and Prairie Sign offers full signage solutions throughout Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta. From one-of-a-kind signs to all-encompassing sign programs, Electra Sign and Prairie Sign are dedicated to providing the highest quality service to all of our clients.
That’s why when it comes to LED signs, we work exclusively with Watchfire Signs, which engineers and manufactures LED signs to help businesses and organizations increase visibility and drive growth. The company has created more than 15,000 LED signs for banks, retailers, schools, places of worship and other locations throughout North America and is thoroughly committed to the highest level of education, training and support to make our customers successful.
Complete sign solutions by Electra Sign Ltd. Winnipeg Manitoba, leading the signage industry in award-winning custom design and manufacturing.
Electra Sign Ltd. was pleased to work with d3h Hotels Inc. on the Home Inn & Suites project located in Swift Current SK. The striking new signs are internally illuminated by energy efficient LED’s creating a small ECO friendly foot print for there newset hotel.
Customer Profile: Based in Saskatoon, d3h Hotels is a hotel management company that owns and operates nine hotels across Western Canada with its two new and upcoming builds of Home Inn & Suites in Swift Current and Yorkton starting in the fall of 2011.
Over the past 13 years, d3h Hotels has gained extensive knowledge and experience in the design and construction of hotels. The company recently celebrated its 10th build, pushing this young management company to retain the honour of being the largest franchisee of Days Inns in Canada.
Saskatchewan’s “best kept secret” not only builds, owns and manages hotels but also franchises the Home brand to potential hoteliers. The HomeSuites and Home Inn & Suites franchise offers hassle-free, turnkey solutions that will allow the franchisee to focus on running a profitable business from day one
d3h’s vision is to ‘work together as a team to provide customers with “stay experience” that makes them feel they were at home’.
d3h Hotels Inc.
1139 – 8th Street East
Saskatoon, SK
www.d3h.ca
Branding & Awareness through effective signage. We are here to help at Electra Sign Ltd. Winnipeg Manitoba.
Via WatchfireSigns.com Pixel pitch is a common way the sign industry describes an LED sign’s resolution. A pixel is comprised of a single grouping or cluster of LED diodes – typically one red, one blue and one green. The pixel may share a lens, as in the case of a surface mount diode, or it may be made up of three separate LEDs.
The simple rule of thumb is that a lower pitch measurement, where each cluster is close together, results in a higher quality image. Unfortunately, some manufacturers have introduced alternative pixel distance calculations as a way to reduce costs. These configurations are often marketed as “virtual,” “enhanced,” or “optimized.” Here is a look at a few different pixel options and how they impact image quality.
The Real Deal: True pixel configurations are measured from the center of each pixel and do not rely on sharing LEDs. Watchfire’s 10mm uses a surface mount device (SMD) that contains red, green and blue under a single lens. This produces a high-quality display that provides exceptional resolution for crisp, vivid content and wide viewing angles.
The Two-Red Imposter Module: Virtual pixel configurations are set up completely different. In order to pass off a lower resolution product, some manufacturers will add a second red LED to each cluster. This configuration results in a pixel that has two red, one blue and one green LED. Then to claim the product is high resolution, these deceitful manufacturers will market it based on the measurement between each individual LED. The product will be marketed as an optimized 10mm, but in reality it has a true pixel pitch of 20mm.
The Missing LED Module: Another way some manufacturers are being deceptive is by using a technique known as LED sharing to claim a higher resolution. LEDs are shared to neighboring pixels to complete a grouping, effectively counting some LEDs up to four times. This layout has visibly larger spaces between LEDs and may even give the appearance that an LED is missing from the board layout. To market this configuration, pitch is measured between overlapping pixels so that the product can be promoted at a much higher resolution than it actually delivers.
The Cold Shoulder Module: Some manufacturers also use through-hole LEDs for higher resolution products like a true 10mm sign. Placing individual red, green and blue LEDs into a circuit board with 10mm spacing creates a product that is not robust enough for long term reliability. This configuration also creates an issue known as shouldering, where the LED lenses block the light of neighboring diodes. Shouldering results in limited viewing angles and can make the display look discolored when it is viewed off-center.
Disadvantages of Virtual Pixel Configurations: LED sharing results in weak color contrast and uneven edges on text as the pixels bleed into one another when they overlap.
Virtual resolutions with two red LEDs cause white graphics and text to look pink because red LEDs dim at a slower rate than blue and green.
Pixel layouts that use 4 LEDs do not allow for consistent black space. This results in fuzzy images that may appear washed out.
Color blending suffers on virtual configurations using the missing LED layout, compromising image quality.
Photos showing the disadvantages of virtual pixel configurations...
Full article via Watchfire Signs... http://www.watchfiresigns.com/blog/virtual-madness-true-vs-virtual-pixel-configurations
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