Cincinnati Reds “ Great American Ball Park” sign installation. March 2007.

EXL-3000 Flexible Red

This sign was installed in the Cincinnati Reds Ball Park and was placed in the Cincinnati Bell Technology Pavilion located above the center field seats.  The sign was an EXL-3000 with red LED’s, 105 feet long and was comprised of a 56’ straight section and a 49’ convex curve section.  It will broadcast preprogrammed messages via an rs232 to 422 converter and can also be fed by an external service provider with entertainment, financial, sports, and world news. 

COX COMUNICATIONS SIGN INSTALLATION
NORTH KINGSTOWN, RHODE ISLAND

This installation was for a TKR24, 6” high character flexible ticker capable of broadcasting news feeds, financial data with stock symbol graphics, or sports news feeds. There are more broadcasting choices dependant upon what the client requires.

This service is supplied by a third party software protocol company.

The ticker chassis dimensions are 10.63” high X 3.5”deep. The assembled weight is 9 lbs per linear foot
The installation itself was supplied in kit form requiring assembly on site by a general contractor or the services of Sunrise Systems.

In order to install the sign a soffit was made out of wood by a fabrication facility and delivered to the site in four quadrants, which were attached together to make the required circle necessary to mount the chassis pieces to. The attachment of the chassis to the soffit was made using self-drilling screws through the chassis into the soffit. The power supplies were then installed with self-drilling screws to power the various components of the sign, i.e. the LED cards, and onboard computer system used to transfer incoming RS232 data to the LED cards. The supplies are provided with Liquitite pigtails allowing them to be connected in series along the length of the sign. Each power supply is capable of driving six LED cards. The maximum number of cards allowed on a 20 AMP circuit is 72

Once the supplies are installed the LED cards are installed into grooves in a flexible neoprene rubber extrusion that engages fingers on the chassis sections to hold it in place. Electrical power and data is then plugged into each LED card.

The final installation step is to install the Plexiglas fascia into the same rubber extrusion as the cards.

This particular sign was 378” in circumference, 10’ diameter and hung by six ½” all thread rods which were attached to the ceiling structure and passed through the soffit and sign and secured by nuts on the bottom of the soffit. A circular tubing covering was slid onto the all thread rods and nuts to dress out the sign.