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Ooooh. Some people are gonna be mad.

You’re not going to find many places that embrace Christmas more enthusiastically than Bass Pro Shops, but some people will get upset about the inclusive language choice. Never mind that even excluding non-Christian religious holidays, they celebrate a holiday season that runs from Thanksgiving thru New Years.

What’s too bad? Not following.

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Oh. I couldn’t care less either way so I didn’t pick up on that. I’ll get offended anyway tho if that’s what everyone else is doing.

Perhaps this will equate to shorter lines when I take my kid for pictures with Santa!

I think OP is posting on regard to the panels out at the bottom of the new screen

My confused ass thought it was the bad screen and the lettering. Lol

Yeah I thought we were looking at dead pixels for a second. My thought was, "Oh dang these screens just got installed, it's a shame a block of the screen is gone." Thinking that the black squares under the word holiday were the focus point of this post.

Pretty sure this is about the huge chunk of bad LED panels, on their brand new $$$$ sign, rather than the language.

Isn't that the door?

Nah, you can’t tell from the picture but that’s about twenty feet off the ground. Definitely not a door.

Yes, that's what I was posting this for. Nothing to do with Christmas specifically, haha.

I actually work for a Springfield-local LED manufacturer, and it says a lot for data connection and/or tile/cabinet failure so early after a big installation like this.

The huge tile/cabinet failure in the giant LED installation they just finished. Nothing to do with Christmas :/ although I guess that could be said too..? I dont care either way, it's the season for family and loved ones.

Yes, exactly.

Yes, you're correct. Dead cabinets/tiles from sub-par data connections or cheap power supplies, merely weeks after completion.

On an installation like this, the design engineer should have accounted for what's called 'redundancy' data connections, so a client (especially like this) never loses a cabinet if something as simple as a CAT5/6 fails.

Well, I posted this because of the LED cabinet failure so soon after he spent a ridiculous sum on this display system, and apparently whoever sold this to him cut corners on proper circuitry design (more expensive when done right), or relatively cheap components. And for a client like this, with the traffic this location sees, it is seemingly indicative of an LED reseller that maximized profits over robust product & design.

That sucks, Johnny. Someone's going to get the whip cracked, or already has.

Source- LED engineer

Hmm this side is a Daktronics, they are pretty good about having redundant signal paths. I'd guess it's a power supply issue

They use SATA and fiber in signs this big. At least they didn't install this one over a fountain lol

You don’t have a clue. They have been weather proofing it all and there is redundant power supplies, more than likely it is just unplugged for that particular panel. Daktronics did the install and is a leader in these screens.

Yup, familiar with them- especially the signature Daktonics dealer treatment. If you're in the industry too, you know how angry whatever middle management is going to be after getting a call from the top with-

"Someone drove by this and called Johnny to say 'Hey, your new sign is broken'. Fix it."

Happy holidays to you too! ;)

Totally agreed. Just, terrible timing right after launch, haha

I mean at-least have a clue what you are talking about.

Who hurt you? I've said everywhere else in the thread I'm a design engineer, talked about what it likely is (power supply and/or data connection failure) and am very familiar with all ends of these.

You know, offering more than "that cabinet is just unplugged for whatever reason".

Cute though. ;)

The tech was out there running the connections to the cabinets at 3am, I wouldn't be surprised if a power supply was loose. Lol They are adding the faux wood framing around so that easily could have knocked a loose connection. Or they could have gotten a bad power supply. It happened to Dak before.

Correct.

I bet it's under warranty. It won't affect Johnny too much, just whoever the third party was that installed it.

Lord, it would HAVE to be. Absolutely true point.

So, Johnny's Blunders of Wildlife Exhibit?

Sounds like someone is jealous that JM didn’t go with their company to do the sign. Find something better to get internet points.

I see this sign off my back porch. They have spent from just after the fishing fair til now to end be where they are. They did figure out digital pixel mapping because I assumed the screen blocks would have been covered by physical things. But they got digital mapping or image presentation figured out.

Fishing and hunting isn’t just the US…it’s all of the world. Conservation of food resources is important as can be no matter what continent you are on.

A true Christian or Muslim or atheist or whatever this time of year realizes differences and goes on about their day. Because they are confident in who they are. Only the weak or unhealed are petty.

IDGAF, but posting “gotcha” pwns on a local sub isn’t exactly groundbreaking material.

I see this sign off my back porch and they did pixel map out a “clean line”. It is a Daktronics board….I’ve seen the generic messages.

Construction has taken forever but is not still done, esp for final edge work on a huge sign. I know nothing about coding but I would assume code clocking certain places on certain pixel lines would be very easy today. And Daktronics, love or hate, is not a small company.

The sign was clean edged code wise with no physical blockage to make a good picture for prob a couple weeks. I always assumed a physical blockage would be needed, but I’m wrong and coding can form an edge.

Better rip it all down, take ten years, and start over again in the typical Johnny fashion

Yeah buddy that’s how it works…. It’s just unplugged

Oh cool, a Minecraft portal.