Outdoor Digital Signage - Shelter in Winter.

How does this technology get protected all through the wettest time of the year? Winter brings back pictures of last year with the thick snow fall in the UK that brought many of the roads to a gridlock, so envisage what this will do for fragile technology.

An LCD enclosure is the ideal resolution, as you will read it has a solution for all the troubles you encounter during winter.

Chilly weather.

When the temperature out of home plummets below zero, you have to speculate why dynamic signage is so effective, surely no one is watching the ads in this weather? However if the interior of the LCD enclosure hits zero, the screen and media player or small factor PC will be in peril of failing, to prevent this the better manufactured outdoor digital signage enclosures are deployed with thermostatic heaters, these in reality work before it gets to zero, to prevent the next issue.

Condensation.

With the heat from the display and computer in cold weather, this can produce condensation within the casing, in spite of this a thermostatically controlled heater eliminates this headache by heating the housing before moisture is made in the enclosure.

Insulation.

For extreme cold climates, thermally managed lagging is used, to hang on to heat within the enclosure, whilst the cooling system takes out heat build up, making sure the within of the enclosure is at the correct temperature.

Freezing locks.

What would happen if you send an engineer to site only to find after commuting for 3 hours he cannot open the box to access the technology for vital maintenance-Apart from wasting important time and money.

Some enclosure manufacturers supply their units with lock covers, this keeps out dust and the weather, the worse potential event we have heard of is someone putting super glue into the locks of the enclosure! This is eliminated with weatherproof covers.

So in preparation for Winter, take note of some of the would-be challenges you may encounter and look for an enclosure that has all of the above to minimize you wasting time trying to resolve tribulations that could have been prohibited.

Over the past 20 years the author has developed a range of outdoor digital signage protective enclosures and founded LCD Enclosure Global who are the leading manufacturer of LCD monitor enclosures, they also offer anti vandal LCD enclosures that provides all the protection and security needed for outdoor use.