In a project of 700 square meters(7 displays 100 square meters each) of 6mm that the airport of one of the world’s largest and most advanced cities buys, they want to have redundancy of power and signal, fault detection by pixel, detection on led modules for operation status, EMC compliance, etc. Now would your control system supplier be able to help you fulfill this job?
Maybe, and maybe not? Then you may have lost a job of more than 3 million US dollars. Or worse than that, you might have taken the job, but were not able to get it done as required, and were faced with a huge penalty and a big damage of your reputation. Sad, isn’t it?
Which one is better? Linsn, Nova, or Colour Light? What about Z-dec, and DB-Star? And a lot of other smaller control systems?
What are the advantages of each controller?
Being a professional who has been in the sales and marketing for the global market, especially for the EU market, Jimmy Feng, one of the partners in Darklight Technology, is providing you with some viewpoints from his perspective now.
Basically the majority of the led display companies through out the world, who take about 80% of the displays sold by numbers (not by amount) in the world-wide market place, select one control system from the “Big Three”, Nova, Linsn, and Colorlight. Therefore, by knowing more about the strength and weakness of these “big three”, you can decide whom to work with in the long run, and whom to speak to for a particular project, and who you should keep a distance with to avoid getting hurt.
Services
When you are small, you can’t expect good services from any of these three providers of control systems, withLinsn being slightly better than the rest, at least they answer your phones with patience and now they are in a struggle to re-capture their first place by improving their response to customer’s request.
Nova does have a good business strategy. They participate in big shows in the overseas market with a big team who speak fairly good English, speaking to the local display companies, providing them with information and knowledge of their products (control system and the related components).
Colorlight has the poorest disciplines of services. “I had a bad experience with Colorlight not long ago,” said Jimmy, “We delivered a big project of about 700 square meters of 6mm to one of the most prestigious and advanced and busy airports in the world, with the control system customized from Colorlight. But they failed to realize one of the most important features the client requested: fault detection with pixel, working with PWM driver. And when we chased them for help, the sales director, who was solely responsible for the whole project, did not pick up the phone.”
Technologies & Applications
DB Star & Z-dec