Watertight LCD enclosures are something of a red herring.

These watertight LCD enclosures need to be able to breath, or the hardware inside the watertight LCD enclosures will burn out.

Watertight LCD enclosures – Understanding the term

Watertight LCD enclosures are commonly referred to as LCD enclosures, the reason for this is that the watertight LCD enclosures are not watertight! If the LCD enclosure is fully sealed the hardware inside the watertight LCD enclosure will fail very soon. The reason these protective outdoor digital signage enclosures are called watertight LCD enclosures is that they prevent a certain amount of water ingress, so that the internal hardware is safe from shorting out.

Watertight LCD enclosures – Cooling

The cooling system inside watertight LCD enclosures must be thermostatically controlled, this allows for the protective outdoor TV enclosures to self regulate and keep the digital signage hardware cool or heated. The temperature ranges for these LCD enclosures is between -30 to 65 degree Celsius and is perfect for throughout the world.

Watertight LCD enclosures – design

Some manufacturers of these outdoor TV enclosures prefer to use vents on the side of their protective casings, the vents point down and as we all know rain never goes up! Others prefer to use plenum’s these are usually fitted to enclosures that are compact and the manufacturers always offer an air curtain as an optional extra – why? Well simply the TV within the watertight LCD enclosures generate a great amount of heat and due to the screen been too close to the viewing window a cool air curtain is needed to ensure the LCD or plasma TV does not fail due to the heat build up on the screens and burning out pixels.

Watertight LCD enclosures – anti vandal solution

Now what is the point in purchasing and deploying a digital signage solution in watertight LCD enclosures if the units are secured with locks that can be opened with a standard screwdriver. Just think if you have invested $10,000 in a digital signage solution to only find that the hardware has either been stolen or damaged as soon as the project has gone live.

Watertight LCD enclosures – mounting

Now we also have to consider the mounting of these watertight LCD enclosures, on the outside of these outdoor digital signage enclosures they have a VESA pattern so that they can be ceiling mounted or mounted directly to the wall. On the inside of these watertight LCD enclosures each one is fitted with a VESA compatible frame that takes screens with 200 x 200, 600 x 400, 800 x 600. These internal mounts are ideal to mount a media player off, so that the entire solution including all the hardware is contained within a single unit.

Knowing what you need from watertight LCD enclosures

You are now fully familiar with what is required and what to look for when you need watertight LCD enclosures to protect your outdoor digital signage hardware, this should in the long run save you some money on your project.

LCD Enclosures Global Limited are a leading manufacturer of watertight LCD enclosures, that are designed to breathe.