The main differences between transparent LED displays and conventional SMD screens are as follows:
1. Transparency and Lighting Impact
Conventional SMD Screens: Opaque design, completely blocking light transmission after installation, affecting the interior lighting of buildings.
Transparent LED Displays: Utilize side-emitting display technology, making the LED strips almost invisible from the front, significantly improving transparency. For example, Herno LED transparent screens achieve high transparency, ensuring display quality while minimizing light obstruction.
2. Weight and Installation Structure
Conventional SMD Screens: Relatively heavy, approximately 42kg per square meter. Large-area installations require high-strength steel structures and additional reinforcement of the building's load-bearing structure.
Transparent LED Displays: Lightweight design, weighing only 16kg/㎡. Can be installed independently or attached to glass curtain wall steel structures, significantly reducing the load on the original building structure and saving on steel structure costs.
3. Irregular Shape Design Capabilities
SMD Conventional Screens: Limited by the cabinet structure, irregular shape splicing has defects, with obvious gaps easily appearing at the splicing points and unnatural transitions between curved surfaces.
Transparent LED Displays: The strip light structure supports high customization, allowing splicing of irregular shapes such as cylinders, frustums, triangles, and arcs, with smooth curved transitions and a more aesthetically pleasing visual effect.
4. Installation Location and Viewing Scenarios
SMD Conventional Screens: Typically installed indoors, but may block sunlight and external views, and waterproofing and UV protection must be considered.
Transparent LED Displays: Designed specifically for outdoor applications, using an indoor installation and outdoor viewing mode. The product has stable performance and can withstand outdoor environments without additional protective measures.
5. Integration with Building Structures
SMD Conventional Screens: Require large-scale steel frame structure support, the installation process is time-consuming and labor-intensive, and may damage the original shape of the building, affecting aesthetics.
Transparent LED Displays: Can be seamlessly integrated with walls with minimal construction, convenient installation without damaging the building structure, and can also enhance the overall aesthetics of the building's appearance.
6. Maintenance Methods and Costs
SMD Conventional Screens: Fault maintenance typically requires post-maintenance or disassembly of the entire module/cabinet, which is complex and costly.
Transparent LED Displays: Support hot-swappable technology; maintenance only requires replacing a single LED strip, making the operation simple and quick, significantly reducing subsequent maintenance costs.
