Indoor LED Display Stand: What a P1.86 GOB Cabinet Changes at a Trade Show

A printed poster is out of date the moment the show opens. A price changes, a model is discontinued, the booth is moved to another aisle — and the stand either gets re-printed or stays wrong for three days. A four-sided LED display cabinet solves that specific problem, and only that problem. This article covers one format: the four-sided floor-standing LED display cabinet, four 320 × 800 mm panels on a wheeled base, 1.024 m² of display in total. It does not cover the LED poster, the bar counter or the LED podium — those are separate cabinets with their own datasheets.

1. The format: four panels on one wheeled base

• Four sides, 320 × 800 mm each. 1.024 m² of display area per cabinet, so one cabinet is readable from four aisles instead of one. On a corner booth or a showroom column, this is the difference between one viewing direction and four.
• Module 320 × 160 mm, pitch P1.25 / P1.538 / P1.86 / P2 / P2.5. Lamp beads are 1010 / 1212 / 1515 depending on the pitch, all GOB coated — glue-on-board, which fills the space between lamps so a trolley, a cleaning cloth or a visitor's bag does not take a row of LEDs with it.
• Front maintenance by magnetic adsorption. Modules lift off from the front. There is no rear service door, which is why the cabinet can stand against a wall or in the middle of a crowded booth without leaving a service gap behind it.
• 27 kg on lockable pulley wheels. One person rolls it to a new position, locks the castors and it stays. Nothing is fixed into the floor, so nothing has to be made good afterwards.

The format in one picture: four 320 x 800 mm LED faces, 1.024 m2 in total, 27 kg on lockable castors, front maintenance from the face.

2. What actually changes against a printed stand

The comparison that matters is not "LED versus paper". It is the cost of being wrong for three days.

Job to be done	Traditional printed stand	Our LED display stand
Change a price or a model	Re-print, re-mount, wait for the print shop	Upload from a phone app, live in minutes
Add a language for day 3	New artwork, new print run	Second file in the playlist
Move to another aisle	Dismantle, carry, re-fix	Roll it, lock the castors
Be seen across a hall	Depends on venue lighting	650 cd/m², readable in a lit hall
Re-use next season	Discard and re-print	Same hardware, new playlist

What does not change: you still have to plan the content. A moving screen with a badly cropped photo looks worse than a clean printed board, and the cabinet will not fix that for you.

3. Choosing the pitch

Pitch sets how much detail a four-side cabinet can show, and it sets the price. All five options use the same 320 × 160 mm module, so the physical cabinet does not change — only resolution and scan mode do.

Pixel pitch	Full-screen resolution (4 sides)	Scan mode
P1.25	256 × 640 × 4	64S
P1.538	208 × 520 × 4	52S
P1.86	172 × 430 × 4	43S
P2	160 × 400 × 4	40S
P2.5	128 × 320 × 4	32S

Refresh is 3840 Hz standard, 7680 Hz on request; grey level 14–16 bit; contrast 6000:1; colour temperature 6500–12000 K. The datasheet does not state a recommended viewing distance for each pitch, so treat any distance figure as a decision to be made per project rather than a spec on paper.

Content path on site: the phone pushes a file over WiFi to the stand. Changing a price at 9 a.m. does not involve a print shop.

4. What each number means at the negotiating table

• 123 W average, 410 W maximum. At 12 hours a day that is roughly 1.5 kWh per cabinet per day. If the venue charges electricity per kW, that number belongs in your booth budget before you sign, not after.
• 27 kg on castors. No rigging, no floor anchors, no permission request to fix anything into the organiser's floor. Ask whether rolling stands are allowed in the hall — most are, some are not during build-up hours.
• Front maintenance, magnetic modules. No rear clearance needed. The catch: whoever services it needs access to the front, so do not pack merchandise against all four faces.
• IP5x, front side only. That is splash resistance on the face, not a waterproof cabinet. Wipe it, never wash it down, and never put it outdoors — if a supplier quotes this cabinet as IP65 for an outdoor stand, the quote is wrong.
• This cabinet is a stand-alone unit, not a wall module. If the project needs one image across several cabinets with a cascade signal, that is a video wall cabinet, not a display stand.

The castor lock that replaces floor fixing: nothing is drilled into the venue floor, so the stand can be moved between halls or between shows.

5. Before the order

1. Confirm the hall allows wheeled stands, and measure the aisle width you have to roll through.
2. Confirm the electricity is charged per kW or included — 410 W peak per cabinet adds up on a 10-stand booth.
3. Decide the content source: phone app upload, or the cloud system for several stands at once.
4. Pick the pitch against the real viewing distance in the hall, not the pitch on a competitor's leaflet.
5. Order one or two spare modules — front maintenance is easy, but only if the spare is the same pitch and batch.
6. Ask for the packed dimensions and weight before booking freight; the shipping case is not the 27 kg cabinet.

Frequently Asked Questions

Does the stand need internet to show content?

No. Content is uploaded from the phone app or loaded locally, and the stand plays the playlist on its own. A network is only needed for remote updates across several stands.

Can it be used outdoors at an exhibition entrance?

No. This is an indoor cabinet with IP5x protection on the front face only. For an outdoor entrance, the outdoor LED poster is the correct product.

Can I join several stands into one image?

Not as a single canvas. Each stand runs its own playlist. If the brief is one image across cabinets, specify a video wall instead.

What does the GOB coating actually protect?

The lamp beads. Glue-on-board fills the gaps between LEDs, so a trolley wheel, a cable or a cleaning cloth does not pull a lamp off. On a show floor where the cabinet gets knocked every hour, this is the difference between a working stand and a dark patch.

Which pitch should I order?

It depends on how close visitors stand. P1.25 to P1.86 is the common range for retail and showroom work where people read text from a metre or two; P2 and P2.5 are the cost-down options for larger halls. Send us the hall layout and we will quote the pitches that fit it rather than the whole list.

Full specifications are on the Indoor LED Product Display Stand page. If you are comparing this cabinet with the single-sided options, the LED poster P1.86 GOB breakdown and the LED bar counter buying guide cover the same pitch in two other formats.