For All Your Outdoor Digital Signage Enclosures & Hardware

Now this is a common question asked by most people who install a TV out on their deck or in their backyard near their pool, let us put both points forward.

In this age of global warming, the weather from day to day is not guaranteed to be the same, throughout he world there has been freak weather from huge snow falls in Washington D.C. to high flood waters in Portugal, destroying everything in its way.

We will look at three areas that are key problem areas for people when they deploy a TV outdoors and they are;

1. Weather
2. Theft
3. Vandalism

Weather.
With the changing weather, a standard TV screen will not stand up to the snow, sleet or rain, you know what happens if you accidentally spill coffee on the screen – it damages the circuits inside the television set resulting in the screen failing.

Then there is the extreme where bright sunlight can damage the LCD crystals and thus again causing the screen to fail.

One thing is for sure, you would not take you home computer and put it outdoors and leave it there – would you? Because the moment it rains – the damage is done.

The solution would be ideally to put it in a sealed unit that has its own micro climate, so no matter what is happening outside of the case, the electronics are kept at their ideal temperature inside the case.

Theft.
Well most of us have experienced this from time to time, if you haven’t, just imagine you have a $1000 TV set in your backyard, what is stopping someone accessing your backyard in the early hours of the morning and stealing the television?

We read on a regular basis that in a recession as we are, burglaries increase as this is classed as an easy crime to feed the family-sad but true.

Vandalism.
It could be accidental or deliberate, but it does happen, if your children are playing ball in the backyard and Johnny does go wide, the ball hits the screen and the screen needs replacing or at least repaired.

On the other hand if you have had a dispute with a neighbour, what is stopping them from using a catapult to fire stones at the screen? This also goes on and it is down to society.

What is to be done?
Well if you can afford to buy an outdoor weatherproof television set, buy it as this will offer the protection from the weather and vandalism, however it will not protect against theft.

The other option is to purchase an outdoor LCD enclosure, these offer an environment that the temperature is regulated and can be either cooled or heated depending on what the external weather is. Some units come with a front viewing screen that is vandal proof and provides anti glare so the screen can be seen perfectly as well as protecting the screen from the damaging UV rays. They also bolt to the wall, so theft is a little difficult as thieves just want to smash and run.

Or alternatively, you could leave the TV in your backyard unprotected and if the children don’t damage it, or the weather, you may be really lucky and not have it stolen, however I for one would not risk it – would you?

LCD Enclosures Global – anything else is a compromise.
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