Dynamo LED Displays Blog
The Dynamo LED Displays blog shares practical insight drawn from our engineering-led approach to LED display design and manufacture. We publish technical guides, buying advice and project breakdowns based on Dynamo’s real installations, covering everything from LED technologies and system design to bespoke, custom-built solutions. All content reflects hands-on experience from our in-house team, supporting architects, designers, brands and end clients in making informed decisions about LED displays across commercial, architectural, broadcast and live environments.
LED Module Components: What Fails First And Why
Specifiers ask us the same question in different words: when an LED display goes wrong, what actually breaks? The answer lives on the LED module, the tile-sized board every cabinet is built from. Knowing the LED module components...
LED Wall Commissioning Checklist: What Happens Between Installation And Handover
An LED wall commissioning checklist is the document that turns a wall of lit cabinets into an LED video wall you can sign off. Installation gets the cabinets on the structure and the cables in. Commissioning proves the...
LED Wall Hire Quote Explained: Day Rates and How to
An LED wall hire quote should tell you what you are paying for, not just what you are paying. An LED wall hire quote is an itemised price for renting LED cabinets, processing, structure, power, transport and crew...
LED Sphere Hire at UEFA’s Headquarters: A Three-Format Technology Showcase
LED sphere hire, an interactive 86-inch Holobox and a transparent mesh LED poster, staged by Dynamo at UEFA's headquarters for a sports marketing agency.
Transparent LED: The Transparency vs Resolution Trade-Off Explained
Every specifier working with transparent LED reaches the same fork: push for higher transparency to preserve natural light and sightlines, or tighten the pixel pitch for sharper image quality. The transparent LED transparency vs resolution trade-off
Buying A Second-Hand LED Screen: Risks, Checks And Real Numbers
A second-hand LED screen can cut 40–60% off the hardware price, but permanent brightness loss, discontinued modules, missing calibration files and the lack of any enforceable warranty typically shrink the real saving to 10–30% against a new installed
How to check an LED display supplier before you pay
Ten checks to run on any LED display supplier before you pay a deposit: Companies House, charges, retention of title, staged payments and warranties.
LED screen cold weather and condensation: what a UK winter
Every autumn the same question lands in our inbox: how does an LED screen handle cold weather, and is condensation going to kill it? The short answer is that cold air on its own is rarely the problem....
UKCA and CE Marking on LED Screens: A Buyer’s Compliance
UKCA and CE marking on LED screens is a self-declaration regime: for the regulations that apply, the manufacturer tests the product, or pays a lab to, and signs their own declaration. No regulator checks that paperwork before the...
Sustainable LED Display Procurement: The ESG Questions Buyers Now Ask
Sustainable LED display procurement is the process of specifying, scoring and contracting an LED display on measured energy use, service life, repairability, end-of-life route and supplier ESG evidence, alongside capital cost. It replaces a single Ro
LED Screens for Museums and Galleries: Immersive Without Gimmicks
The question we get from exhibition designers and estates teams is nearly always the same. How do we put a large LED screen into a heritage or gallery space without it looking like a shopping centre? LED screens...
LED screens for gyms and fitness studios: specifying for workout
LED screens for gyms and fitness studios have moved from nice-to-have to part of the core fit-out. Boutique studios run instructor-led classes on an LED screen — sometimes called an LED video wall — instead of a mirror...
Media Facade LED Screen: Specifying Building-Scale Displays
A media facade LED screen turns a building elevation into a display surface, and specifying one is a different job from specifying a billboard or a lobby video wall. The questions that decide whether the project works are
How to Create an RCFGX File with NovaStar Smart Settings
If you’ve got an LED module on the bench and no configuration file for it, the NovaStar Smart Settings wizard in NovaLCT is how you build one. The output is an RCFGX file: the receiving-card configuration that tells
LED Display Retrofit: Receiving Cards, Controllers, and When to Replace the Screen Instead
An LED display retrofit replaces the receiving cards and controller while keeping the cabinets, modules and power supplies, and it can add years of life to a display whose control system has fallen behind. It is not always
Dynamo named AV Awards 2026 finalist for Auto Trader Manchester HQ
Dynamo LED Displays Limited has been named an AV Awards 2026 finalist in Corporate Project of the Year for the Auto Trader Manchester HQ project. The Manchester headquarters brings five LED zones together as one workplace display system.
LED Screen Service Contracts and SLAs: What Good Cover Looks Like
An LED screen service contract is an agreement that commits a supplier to defined response and fix times, engineer attendance, held spares and scheduled maintenance for a display. It goes beyond a standard warranty, which repairs faulty parts
LED Burn-In: Do LED Screens Get Burn-In or Image Retention?
Direct-view LED screens do not suffer burn-in in the way OLED displays do. The inorganic diodes in an LED video wall cannot degrade chemically, so the LED screen burn-in most people fear does not exist. What LED can
Meeting Room LED Screens: Direct-View LED for Video Conferencing Suites
A meeting room LED screen is a fine-pitch direct-view LED wall, typically 1.2mm–2.5mm pixel pitch and 3 to 6 metres wide, installed as the front-of-room display in a boardroom or video conferencing suite. It replaces tiled LCD with
Control Room Video Wall Design Guide: Pixel Pitch, Sightlines and 24/7 Uptime
A control room video wall is a large, bezel-free direct-view LED display specified for continuous 24/7 operation, sized and pitched so every operator can read critical content from their seat. It has a harder job than almost any
LED Screen Viewing Angle: What Actually Matters
Ask what the LED screen viewing angle of a product is and the datasheet gives you a tidy answer: 160°, perhaps 140°. Ask what that number promises and the conversation gets more useful. The quoted figure tells you
BTS The City Arirang London: how a rental LED wall became an interactive K-pop activation at Outernet
How Dynamo delivered a DRE Series P1.29 rental LED wall with live PIP dance-challenge compositing, concealed audio and a printed timber stand for Korea Tourism Organization’s BTS activation at Outernet London.
LED Cabinet Sizing: How to Match Cabinets, Aspect Ratios and Pitch to Your Wall
LED cabinet sizing is the decision that turns an LED video wall from a sketch into a buildable product. Every LED video wall is a grid of fixed-size cabinets, sometimes quoted as LED panel sizes, so the cabinet
Transparent LED vs Projection Glass: Picking a Storefront Tech
Transparent LED vs projection glass is usually decided by daylight, viewing distance, tenancy rules and what the glass needs to do when the content is off. They both keep the window open, but the structural, electrical and content