You don't need a HEAVY or a MAMMOTH base to provide stability to a big heavy LCD. There other option is to use a counterweight.
What is important in object stability is the maintenance of the object's center of gravity within the confines of its footprint. An easy way of acheiving this could be accomplished with a screen attached to an arm that articulates atop a fulcrum, a counterbalancing weight attached on the opposite end of this pole? In this solution, there is no need for an overly large footprint, or a heavily weighted base. Instead, you could create a balanced display with a minimum of weight by using a simple lever, increasing counterbalancing force by shifting the counterweight further away from the fulcrum.
Sorry for the lousy appleworks mock-up...but something like this:
There is a problem with this idea. The 20" screen weighs 19 pounds. Let's assume that the screen itself (minus the leg) is 18 pounds. I don't know the length of the arm. Let's estimate 8" by the picture. You could counterbalance it with an 18 pound weight on an 8" arm. You still need some extra weight for the base else the thing would fall whenever it tips over a bit, so we're talking about a 50 pound device. You could extend the back arm to 18" and lighthen the weight to less than half, but then it takes as much space as a CRT, so what's the point.
Whatever you do the thing comes out big and heavy as compared to an LCD with a leg.
I really do like that display...although i'd prefer if the arm were to appear more solid.Im gussing that by their product line, it at this point cant really get it heavier tha a 17"lcd without making it looking like crap
i've seen that site many times before (yes, it's posted on these forums all the time) and the designs seem really cool. but i've had trouble ever finding one for sale. also, where are the power and video cables? i understand that a lot of companies leave these off for product pictures, but where would they go without completely ruining the aesthetic of the display?
i guess the point is, really good design accounts for things such as reality.
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Originally posted by ogion
You don't need a HEAVY or a MAMMOTH base to provide stability to a big heavy LCD. There other option is to use a counterweight.
What is important in object stability is the maintenance of the object's center of gravity within the confines of its footprint. An easy way of acheiving this could be accomplished with a screen attached to an arm that articulates atop a fulcrum, a counterbalancing weight attached on the opposite end of this pole? In this solution, there is no need for an overly large footprint, or a heavily weighted base. Instead, you could create a balanced display with a minimum of weight by using a simple lever, increasing counterbalancing force by shifting the counterweight further away from the fulcrum.
Sorry for the lousy appleworks mock-up...but something like this:
There is a problem with this idea. The 20" screen weighs 19 pounds. Let's assume that the screen itself (minus the leg) is 18 pounds. I don't know the length of the arm. Let's estimate 8" by the picture. You could counterbalance it with an 18 pound weight on an 8" arm. You still need some extra weight for the base else the thing would fall whenever it tips over a bit, so we're talking about a 50 pound device. You could extend the back arm to 18" and lighthen the weight to less than half, but then it takes as much space as a CRT, so what's the point.
Whatever you do the thing comes out big and heavy as compared to an LCD with a leg.
(plus reliable power lines and/or UPS for the field generator)
Originally posted by iWANT
It could work...
Check out this one
I really do like that display...although i'd prefer if the arm were to appear more solid.Im gussing that by their product line, it at this point cant really get it heavier tha a 17"lcd without making it looking like crap
i've seen that site many times before (yes, it's posted on these forums all the time) and the designs seem really cool. but i've had trouble ever finding one for sale. also, where are the power and video cables? i understand that a lot of companies leave these off for product pictures, but where would they go without completely ruining the aesthetic of the display?
i guess the point is, really good design accounts for things such as reality.