Hardware · Indoor
Indoor LED tickers
A 250 mm band built from 250 × 250 mm modules, at a pitch chosen for the nearest reader. Receptions, bars, trading floors, club shops and classrooms.
The module
Dynamo’s indoor tickers are built on the DX Series: a 250 × 250 mm module in a die-cast aluminium cabinet 47 mm deep. Modules are front serviceable, so a ticker set into a ceiling line or boxed into a window can be opened from the front. Cabinets come in 250 mm multiples, including 1000 × 250, 750 × 250 and 500 × 250 mm, so a band is built to the length of the wall rather than rounded to the nearest panel. Right-angle corners are seamless: text scrolls round them without a gap.
At 1.9 mm the fine-pitch default is the DIT Pro P1.9, the same 250 × 250 mm module format with magnetic front-service modules at 600 nits. It is the module behind the 35 m PIMCO ticker at 25 Baker Street.
Pitches and pixels
Resolution comes from the module, never from dividing a length by a pitch. Each 250 × 250 mm module carries the pixels below, so a 1 m × 250 mm run is four modules wide and one high.
| Pitch | Pixels per module | Pixels per 1 m × 250 mm | Brightness | Reads well from |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.9 mm | 128 × 128 | 512 × 128 | 600 nits (DIT Pro) or 800 nits and more (DX) | Desks and counters, two to three metres |
| 2.5 mm | 100 × 100 | 400 × 100 | 800 nits and more | Lobbies and event rooms, three metres and more |
| 2.6 mm | 96 × 96 | 384 × 96 | 800 nits and more | Corridors and classrooms |
| 2.9 mm | 84 × 84 | 336 × 84 | 800 nits and more | Bars and shop floors |
| 3.1 mm | 80 × 80 | 320 × 80 | 800 nits and more | Shop floors |
| 3.9 mm | 64 × 64 | 256 × 64 | 800 nits and more | Long runs read from across the room |
| 5.9 mm | 42 × 42 | 168 × 42 | 600 to 800 nits | Concourses and halls |
All DX pitches refresh at 3,840 Hz or more (1.9 mm at 2,880 Hz or more) with 14-bit greyscale, so the band films cleanly and does not flicker on a phone.
Height
250 mm is the standard band. At 1.9 mm it carries a logo tile and two lines of information, the symbol above the price and movement, read from a seated position across a desk. Taller bands are built in 250 mm steps from the same modules: 500 mm for a reception feature, 750 mm or 1 m where the ticker is the architecture.
Power and data
DX modules draw up to 450 W per square metre, 150 W typical. A 250 mm band is a quarter of a square metre per metre run, so a 10 m ticker is 2.5 m² of display. Power is 230 V single phase, fed at intervals along the run. Data runs back to the controller on Cat 6; a data cable beats Wi-Fi every time. Fan-free power supplies are available where the ticker sits above people who work on the phone, as PIMCO asked for.
Where indoor tickers go
- Trading floors: PIMCO’s 35 m run at 25 Baker Street and the 80 m U-shape before it; Alpha FX’s 25 m ticker above the window wall. → Trading floors
- Bars and restaurants: Bob Bob Cité’s 77 m menu ticker round the Leadenhall Building. → Bars and restaurants
- Club shops and concourses: welcome messages and fixtures over the entrance. → Stadiums and club shops
- Classrooms: Barton Peveril’s 25 m finance-hub ribbon on DX 2.6 mm with three 90° corners. → Schools and universities
- Retail windows: a window-facing band wants the DX HB range at 3,000 nits and more. → Outdoor and window tickers
Specification
| Module | 250 × 250 mm |
| Pitches | 1.9, 2.5, 2.6, 2.9, 3.1, 3.9, 5.9 mm |
| Brightness | 800 nits and more (5.9 mm: 600 to 800; DIT Pro 1.9: 600) |
| Refresh | 3,840 Hz and more (1.9 mm: 2,880 Hz and more) |
| Greyscale | 14-bit |
| Viewing angle | 160° horizontal, 140° vertical |
| Cabinet depth | 47 mm |
| Service | Front |
| Corners | Seamless right angle |
| Mounting | Wall, suspended, ceiling line, window |
| Power | Up to 450 W/m², 150 W/m² typical |
Figures are from the DX Series datasheet and the DIT Pro supplier specification. Ask for the datasheet with your quote.
Software
Every indoor ticker is commissioned with Dynamo Ticker running on a Windows PC in the comms room: live markets, news, your own messages, weather scenes and a phone panel. Licence £250 a year per site. → Dynamo Ticker
Get a quote
Send the length of the run, the height you want, how far the nearest reader stands and what the band will show. We come back with the module, the pitch, a drawing and a written quote.