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View first-hand the importance of everything we discuss below.
BIG Business Booster
 There is no question that LED electronic message centers are the business signage communication wave of the future. Local advertising has never been cheaper because of them.
Every business has a need to promote special events, sales, sponsorships, etc.; either at their business location and/or at local sports events, parades, church and school events.
If your business is not located where you can have a permanent messaging sign, or you need to advertise at multiple locations (like the kid's soccer game), the question is, HOW?
This question has been answered with “The LED Sled™” pictured above, Signs Manufacturing’s new portable self-powered LED electronic message center and video display.
Local businesses have never before been able to be so creative, to think so far outside the box to gain a competitive advertising advantage.
“To rent, or to own, THAT is the question.” (sorry Shakespeare.) How often do you need to promote your business?
If you are a multi-location business you need to own one of these! Some location ALWAYS has special needs or opportunities. Or a new store under construction.
If you’re not in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex you absolutely need to own one because you are too far away for us to rent you one!
Visit our “Message Center Rentals” or “Portable Sign Sales” pages to the left for details.
Message Center Brands We Sell and Support
Why so many different manufacturers? Especially when we're a manufacturer?
All electronic message centers are made differently, with different characteristics and sizes, and no single display can be used in every installation condition.
And they vary by features. See the many variable features enumerated below.
No one manufacturer's design is the best value for every customer, any way they want to use it.
Not even ours, so we cover the bases!
Sunburst Displays™
 With an electronic message center you are leaving your computer out in the Texas rain, ice, heat and cold, and tornados and hurricane-force winds are trying to blow it away.
Sunburst Displays are built in Texas, for Texans, by us.
Sunburst Displays are only sold wholesale FACTORY-DIRECT to our customers.
Historically monochrome displays were much cheaper than color displays. This is no longer true.
In making your decision regarding monochrome vs. color realize that colors in motion are proven to be much more attention-getting than moving single-color lights.
Monochrome (one color) displays are available in “Red”
or “Amber (Yellow).”
Full-Color displays are either RGB (Red, Green, Blue) or
RGBW (Red, Green, Blue, White.)
The more colors, the more LED lights in each pixel,
the larger each pixel, the further back from the sign
you must be so that the sign is not “grainy.”
Display Capability - Palette
Because the intensity of a LED light can be changed by
increasing or decreasing the voltage to it, the better
monochrome displays feature over 4000 shades of
Red or Amber. Some manufacturers call this "grayscale." The cheaper monochrome displays cannot vary their color intensity at all, they are truly one color. A Sunburst Displays™ sign can turn it's gradients feature "off" and display one-color monotone.
Good color displays (RGB) can display over 260,000
color variations; exceptional units 6 million.
We have units available with
256/4,000/26,000/6,000,000 and 281,000,000,000,000
shades/colors.
Pixels
An electronic message center is in many ways a large
computer screen. The screen is illuminated by
turning many individual lights, or pixels, on/off (or
varying the voltage to them.)
Tighter spacing between pixels allows more data to be
displayed and makes the sign look better but increases
cost.
Older generation displays group LEDs in clusters. Modern Sunburst Displays™ utilize “Balanced Spacing” and more modern software for a superior appearance.
Pixel Size - Clusters vs. a "Balanced Array"
 To produce colors at least 3 different color producing LEDs are utilized, Red, Green, and Blue (RGB.) For the human eye, red, green and blue create white.
Older generation displays group LEDs in clusters. A more modern Sunburst Displays™ utilize a “Balanced Array” for a superior appearance because the LEDs are evenly spaced, and more sophisticated software creates "virtual pixels."
 Some electronic message center manufacturers try to overcome inferior LED’s (which are greatly less expensive) by adding more than one LED of the same color to each pixel.
This makes the pixel cluster larger, which makes the pitch larger, which increases the minimum viewing distance. It also uses more electricity.
Pitch
How far pixels are from one another is called
“pitch” and is usually expressed in millimeters (mm.)
The pitch must be small for a display not to appear
grainy up close.
Older color displays, because each pixel is actually an unequal cluster of 3 or more different colored LED’s, cannot have as small a pitch as a monochrome display or the appearance of a more modern display with a “Balanced Array." Therefore they must be viewed from a greater distance to have a quality appearance. There is a lot of blank space between pixels.
Old-style monochrome displays are available in 9mm, 19mm, 25mm, 35mm, 46mm
and larger, some very larger pitches.
The tightest pitch for a quality RGB color display is
17mm.
The distance between LEDs in Sunburst Displays™ “Balanced Array” can be as small as 8 mm, monochrome or full-color.
Matrix
How many pixels wide and high the display is, which determines how many of what size letters can be displayed at one time.
Most matrix dimensions are in multiples of 8 pixels, or virtual pixels in the case of a Balanced Array. A larger matrix can display more and larger information at one time.
The Advantages of a "Balanced Array"
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Creates a visually a more attractive sign with evenly spaced LED's.
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The software generates 4 LED's per "virtual pixel" which allows:
▪ Illuminating a second red LED in each virtual pixel to create whiter Whites.
▪ Beefier letters containing more illuminated LED's for the same height compared to a standard array.
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Superior reproduction of letter fonts and graphics.
Larger LED's are used, creating a brighter sign with increased "fill" (less space between LED's.) LED's are 50% closer together than pixels are in a standard array, this provides a much tighter display appearance. There are 33% more LED's in any given area. One Glare Shield (see below) per LED, rather than one per pixel, maximum. Software can shift "pixel" locations to compact the vision even further.
As an automobile driver drives toward an electronic message center which is installed on a 20’ tall pole the vertical viewing angle increases from near 0° to almost 90° as the driver passes under the sign. As the viewing angle increases the intensity of the display decreases. The vertical viewing angle of the LED’s used in the display plays an important role in the usefulness of the display. (For more information on this see “Glare Shields or Louvers” below.)
As a driver drives toward an electronic message center installed on the side of a road the horizontal viewing angle increases from near 0° to 90° as the driver passes beside the sign. As the viewing angle increases the intensity of the display decreases in this direction also. The horizontal viewing angle of the LED’s used in the display also plays an important role in the usefulness of the display.
It is important to understand the vertical and the horizontal angle that the display will be viewed from.
LED lights are directional, and Glare Shields or Louvers can block visibility. High quality LED’s can be viewed by as much as 90° horizontally and vertically and still observe over 70% of the lumen potential.
Some LED’s lose virtually all of their light at angles over 45°.
Less-expensive signs must therefore be viewed nearly straight-on to be legible.
Sunburst Displays™ are effective at radical angles.
Determining Your Minimum Display Size
Videos will run on any size sign, with a resolution equal to the pixel matrix of the display.
This is not true for wording, however. Signs that have a larger pixel pitch will not be able to display small letters as clearly as a sign with a smaller pixel pitch (smaller pixel pitch means more dots per square foot).
Decide on how many lines of text vertically you need to display. Decide the maximum height of the letters you want each row to use.
Add at least 2” between rows, and 1.25” top and bottom. If you are going to use both upper and lower case letters allow additional space for the descending letters also. The amount of space varies by letter size and style. Will you want a lighted border around your message?
The cumulative total is how tall the minimum display height of your sign must be, in inches.
But, can the display clearly display your smallest letters? For a standard block letter style the smallest letter a 20mm sign can clearly display is a 6.3" tall lower-case character. A 16mm sign can display 5.1" minimum-height characters.
It is possible to go smaller, but it may require some experimentation with letter styles and spacing. Smaller letters probably require a tighter pitched sign.
If you plan on using some lower-case letters recognize that their shorter height is your shortest letter.
To determine minimum letter height for all sign pitches, multiply the pitch of a display you are considering, in millimeters (say 20) by 0.314960624. This tells you the smallest letter the display you are considering can reliably display.
Next, decide on the longest message you need to display. Count both the letters and spaces, and include space both before and after the message. Multiply by 0.314960624. Now multiply by the pitch of a display you are considering, in millimeters (say 20.) The answer is how long the sign display must be in inches to display the message adequately in most letter styles. Realize that some letter styles would require an even longer display, but this is a good average.
You now know if the size and pitch of the sign you are considering will meet your needs.
Viewing Distances
The minimum viewing distance is the point at which the
display loses its graininess. This can vary
depending on the message being displayed.
The maximum viewing distance is the point at which the
smallest character which will be generated on the display
becomes unreadable. A potential solution is to
generate larger characters, but this may increase the
minimum viewing distance.
Reading Time
The length of time letters are readable when moving towards them.
These times are only achievable when viewing signs made with LEDs with wide viewing angles.
Many signs reading times are much shorter for the same sized letter.
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Control Software
More than any other part of the sign the operating software determines the usability of the system. Sunburst Displays™ proprietary operating software contains many virtually unique features into one package:
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Encryption so that no one else can operate the sign.
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The programming computer's screen displays exactly what the sign will look like.
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The software allows enlargement after images or text are uploaded.
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Displays can be programmed using Power-Point, Corel, Photoshop, or any graphics software you are familiar with. So you already know how to program the sign.
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Pixel Text can be directly entered.
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Add multiple images at once, speeding set-up time.
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The computer communicates with the sign via Wi-Fi, and only needs to be "on" when changing the program. The sign runs on its own internal processor. You can create a program at home, and download it to your sign when you get to your business, if you desire.
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One click updates the sign.
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"Virtual pixel" creation to allow the advantages of a "Balanced Array" as explained above.
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Allows for the use of Text, Graphics, Animation, Slideshow, Video, Scheduling, Time, Temperature, Brightness Control listed separately below.
Text, Graphics, or Both
Some competitive units only display text, some must display
text as a graphic (drawing), some can display both
text and graphics. Some competitors can only display "stick" letters (one line.)
 Sunburst Displays™ proprietary software can display text and graphics, and we can vary the font (letter style) and the thickness of the letters.
Many varied letter-styles (fonts) are pre-programmed
in all our units.
All our units can also automatically place text over
graphics pictures.
On our monochrome units (one color) text and graphics can be displayed
in 1 or 256 shades of the one color. Full-color units
display 281,000,000,000,000 separate shades.
Animated Text and Graphics
All Sunburst Displays™ software can display fixed messages or graphics (drawings) or “scroll” messages or graphics (drawings) and include F/X features. We also show a display such as a cartoon with character movement, for instance.
Monochrome displays convert colors to shades of either Red or Amber (Yellow.)
Slideshow Playback
All Sunburst Displays™ programming can display pre-programmed messages and pictures in a slideshow format, much like a screensaver slideshow showing multiple messages or images.
Video - Prerecorded Clips
All Sunburst Displays™ proprietary software can display videos of varying random lengths.
Scheduling
Schedule various messages, graphics or videos to automatically run at various times of day or night with Sunburst Displays™ software.
Double-Sided Display Programming Options
Most competitive units display the same message or animation on both sides of a double-sided display.
However some competitive units can only be programmed totally independent of each other. There displays will not synchronize, so they take twice as long to program.
Sunburst Displays™ standard is a synchronized display, with independent programming an inexpensive option.
Display Size and
Appearance
Some displays have "retainer", or a picture frame around the display.
Some displays are "bleed", or the matrix goes to the edge of the face.
A bleed face gives more display space in the square footage allowed if a city has a restrictive sign ordinance.
 Glare shields, also called louvers, prevent a display’s LEDs from appearing to be lighted, by sunlight, making your message unreadable.
Sunburst Displays™ curved glare shields are individually molded into the actual face, not bolted on, to individually shade each LED.
These features guarantee that our shields are effective and positioned properly. They also allow our shields to be as small as possible to eliminate their interference with viewing our displays from below or above.
This is a very common problem with competitive displays with shields that are straight, or continuous. Theirs are less effective and must be much larger, limiting the viewing angles of their signs.
Automatic Brightness Control
Sunburst Displays™ and other quality displays automatically adjust their brightness to the current lighting conditions.
Display Brightness
LED’s are affected by
voltage. For instance, an LED will burn nearly
100% brighter if you double the power feeding it.
The LED will last about 1/6 as long, however, making this
alternative quite expensive in total cost.
LED's dim as they age. At some point (subjective) they will need to be replaced because they are too dim. Feeding them less voltage extends their useful life.
Sunburst Displays' engineering goal was to balance brightness and longevity.
If only brightness is important a monochrome display that does not include a grayscale feature, or automatic brightness adjustment, will be the brightest, at least initially, because all LED's will always be fully-powered. The LED's can also be more closely packed because only one color of LED is used; room does not have to be dedicated to other-colored (RGB) LED's.
Colors in motion, though dimmer than monochrome, have proven to be a better attention-getter, and the displays last longer.
A thermometer installs on the sign cabinet and plugs
into the sign computer in systems set-up for this
feature.
Time and Temperature Display
Options
With this option, and a temperature sensor, the controlling computer can have the display flash, scroll, or constantly display time and temperature.
The best systems display “atomic” time and self-adjust for daylight savings time.
Optical Fiber. Run underground from the
sign to the controlling computer, usually inside the
building. This fiber must be run in separate
conduit, but it can be buried in the same trench as
the electrical supply.
Phone Control. The unit can have a cell
phone number and a modem. Simply call the sign
from the controlling computer and tells it what to do.
The internal memory of the electronic message center
repeats these instructions until they are changed.
RF Wireless Modem Communications. An
antenna is placed on the sign, and on the building,
which is hooked to the controlling computer.
Wi-Fi Modem. Uses a wireless modem connection in the computer, and in the sign cabinet, to communicate.
It is possible to have one computer control multiple
of our electronic message centers (all Long John
Silver’s are, for example.)
Internal Controls
Besides the computer that is used to program the sign there is a processor or a computer inside the sign in most systems.
The poorly engineered signs are programmed and controlled by a single computer that is hard-wired to the sign and must be left "on" at all times. Or, in some cheap signs a second "personal computer" is actually installed inside the sign.
The problem with either of these systems is that the sign is running on "Windows" using a CD or hard-drive and is additionally subject to all the viruses, freezes, lock-ups and reboot problems that a personal computer faces. (As a simple example of the problems faced, who climbs the pole of a free-standing pole sign to reboot the computer after a power outage or computer lock-up? Service call.)
Plus, with all the moving parts in hard drives, disk drives, and other humidity and temperature sensitive components, a PC is a poor way to run a sign from inside the sign. They fail often enough when they are used in the controlled environment of a building.
Tremendous cooling is required when there is an "Intel Inside" but many of these poorly engineered units don't even have cooling fans for the LED displays, much less the computer's processor chip.
In the worst of all signs, the software to program the computer inside the sign is not even in the sign owner's possession. It is not on the programming computer, it is "on the cloud." The sign’s computer must have high-speed internet access.
What if the sign manufacturer does not own the software, he uses a third-party system, and they notify you that in order to keep your sign operating you will now have to pay them $2,000 per month to continue access to the programming software. This happens all the time with other "free" software. Or, he controls the software "on the cloud" but goes out of business so your sign cannot be programmed by anyone.
We don't have a "computer" in our signs. The processor in our signs is a "mother-board" with a non-volatile memory (no heat-sensitive processor chip) and its sole purpose is to store and control using the commands you send it from the programming computer we furnish Free with the sign. (No rebooting!)
The programming software is on the computer we give you, and we also give you a back-up copy.
This vastly superior system also uses less energy.
Ventilation
Heat is the enemy of LED’s. Sunburst Displays™ electronic message centers have multiple inflow and outflow ventilation fans. Additionally, every heat-producing component has its own internal cooling fan. Larger units incorporate air conditioners into their design. Excessive heat can shorten LED life by up to 80%.
In poorly engineered signs with little (passive) or no cooling, decreasing the pitch, increasing the size of pixels, or over-driving LED’s with higher-than-required voltage to increase their brightness, increases heat, shortening the life of the unit.
Some units vent out the front of the sign, some out their sides, and some out the rear. This affects how each unit can be installed. For instance, a unit that vents out its sides cannot be covered with brick.
Solarbrite™ Light Emitting Diode (LED)
Technology
Many companies manufacture
LED’s. There are over 5,000 varied LED’s available,
and they vary greatly as to brightness, lux, light-dispersal
(viewing) angle, useful lifetime, and lifetime.
Some are very cheap, some are quite
expensive, but all cost more than neon for equal
illumination.
Signs Manufacturing's Sunburst Displays™
only use Solarbrite™ LED’s
that are rated to retain 80% of their brightness for
60,000+ hours. These are the most expensive, but highest value, LED’s.
Our selection of LED’s is what makes our signs brighter, and last longer.
 As an example, a White Solarbrite™ LED is 280 lux, compared to our
BrighterSigns™ neon's 235 lux, or standard neon's 140 lux.
A Solarbrite™ LED incorporates a new kind of chip, different from all
other LED's.
Signs Manufacturing is an industry leader in the
implementation of new technology in advertising.
Solarbrite™ LED’s utilize military specification
coatings on the circuit boards the LED’s are attached to,
preventing corrosion and electrical problems.
Like neon, LED’s are also affected by
voltage. For instance, an LED will also burn nearly
100% brighter if you double the power feeding it.
The LED will last about 1/6 as long, however, making this
alternative quite expensive in total cost.
We power our Solarbrite™ LED’s properly, and offer a 5 year warranty on the LED’s in
our lighted signs.
Incandescent Lighting
Incandescent (household) lamps begin disappearing in 2012, starting with the 100 watt lamp, and will be mostly gone by 2014.
The Government has mandated that all these lamps, with 22 exceptions, must begin being at least 25% more energy efficient starting in 2014, 70% more efficient by 2020.
"Sign Service" lamps are exempt, but whether or not lamp manufacturers will recognize a big enough market to continue to make just them is problematic.
Servicing
Some message centers are serviced by removing their face, some by removing their back, some by removing a frame around the face and sides of the sign. This also affects how each unit can be installed.
Electrical
120 volt single phase service is normally required
because these displays do not consume a great deal of
energy, but some units require 240 volt 1 phase.
Remember, however, that other parts of the sign will
have electrical requirements also.
This varies by the message displayed, and how long the electronic message center is on.
That said it is uncommon for ANY electronic (LED) message center to use over $1.00 in electricity in a day.
Some electronic message center manufacturers, more
interested in the sale than the needs of the customer,
overdrive their LED’s to make them brighter (usually
because they are using inferior LED’s.)
Besides shortening the lifetime of the display to 1/6
of a properly manufactured display it wastes energy.
Sunburst Displays™ does none of this!
We do provide internal overvoltage, low voltage, spike and brownout protection for the sign. Many manufacturers do not.
The system should have easy to use control software
with built in features such as scrolling and blinking
messages and a time and temperature display. It
should also allow you to preview both individual
messages and your whole display queue without forcing
you to show the world your half-finished ads by
running them on the display. The message should
be able to be changed from inside your business, or
the system should be configured so that “headquarters”
can change the message at each store.
Learning how to program an electronic message center
is not hard.
Most good manufacturers have teaching CD’s in addition
to Technical Assistance.
Many have telephone training included as part of their
package.
Signs Manufacturing is particularly adept at these
systems, and helps our customers until they no longer
need us.
Then we come back when they find they were premature.
Product and Technical Support
Most important in an investment of this size is product support.
The electronic message center manufacturer must be large and dedicated enough that they will continue to support their products with parts.
Technical support must be easily available and there must be no limit to your access to it.
Even after you have become an expert, and years later, you might have difficulty programming a new-look message.
Make certain your electronic message center manufacturer and installer will be there to help you 24 hours a day.
Minimum Computer Requirements
Most up-to-date computers, purchased within 2 years,
have enough memory to create control programs.
It is usually NOT necessary to buy a
separate/additional computer to control an electronic
message center.
FREE Programming Computer with Sunburst Displays™
Each Sunburst Displays™ electronic message center comes with a "free" pre-programmed laptop computer ready to remotely program your new electronic message center.
 Tutorials are a part of the computer’s pre-programming.
Full-color displays can also be programmed using Power-Point, Corel, Photoshop, or any graphics software you are familiar with. So you already know how to program the sign!
The computer communicates via Wi-Fi, so you probably already know how to work it, and it only needs to be "on" when you are changing the program. The sign runs on its own internal processor.
You can create a program at home, and download it to your sign when you get to your business, if you desire.
Proprietary encryption in both the sign and the programming computer software make the sign impossible to use by anyone else.
SolarGuard™ Protection for Sunburst Displays™
Our plastic faces that hold the LEDs, and Glare Shields, have internal UV protection. But
your sign needs to look nearly as good 10 to 15 years from
now as it looks the day it is installed.
The
longevity and appearance of plastic face materials are extended when they are coated with
SolarGuard™, a special, clear, high-gloss,
mar-resistant topcoat which protects plastics from
ultraviolet light and ozone so that they last longer, just
like your eyeglasses have UV coatings to protect the
plastic lens.
 Signs Manufacturing is an authorized
SolarGuard™ applicator.
Signs Manufacturing adds
SolarGuard™ protection to every plastic sign face component.
Does SolarGuard™ Protection
Work? The face on the right was made of
“generic” red acrylic and black trim-cap. The left
half was coated with SolarGuard™ and the face was left
outside for ONLY 7 years; your sign will be out there much
longer!
(This product does not come from the traditional sign industry. Few sign manufacturers know about it, or where to get it.) _small.jpg) _small.jpg)
EMC faces that were NOT protected with SolarGuard™ (Click on each picture to Enlarge.)
Self-Cleaning Faces for Sunburst Displays™
Signs Manufacturing adds Lumabrite™
coatings to every plastic-faced sign.
Lumabrite™ reduces maintenance
because of built-in self-cleaning properties.
This products inspiration was the optical plastic lens industry.
Our people are factory-trained in the
application of Lumabrite™.
Construction Details for Sunburst Displays™
Free-standing signs are engineered to survive a 140 mph wind.
 All face-plates, the part of the sign that the display's external LED boards are mounted to, are CAD/CNC (Computer Aided Design/Computer Numerical Controlled) routed from solid aluminum plate, to prevent rusting and increase heat dissipation.
 An extensive lattice-formed 3-dimensional aluminum frame is welded to the face-plate to insure rigidity and further aid in heat dissipation.
Aluminum is also used for all exterior surfaces of the sign cabinet, again to prevent future rusting.
Almost all Chinese-manufactured signs, among others, have steel cabinets and face-plates.
With some manufacturers, incredibly, the face-plate is merely many individual pieces bolted together. Hardly engineered to withstand 140 mph tornado winds.
Water is the enemy of electronic message centers. Sunburst Displays developed a unique cabinet design that channels water and ice away from vital internal electrical components.
The face boards, containing the LEDs, are gasketed and hermetically sealed to prevent moisture from entering the sign through the faces.
Some manufacturers use 12" by 12", or larger, face boards. Easier to manufacture the sign, but this removes at least half the structure in the face-plates these LED boards are fastened to, making the entire sign much more susceptible to wind, especially hurricane and tornado, damage. We manufacture 6" by 12" face boards.
 The interior of the sign incorporates a welded structural-steel frame, necessary for the strength to withstand 140 mph winds. All other interior metal is aluminum also.
All fasteners are galvanized or non-corrosive; no rust. In a Sunburst Display 8 screws fasten each 6" x 12" face board to the sign frame. That's 32 screws in a 12" x 12" area compared to the 4 plastic clips most manufacturers use.
Most Chinese displays are painted with questionable paints. (Remember when the Chinese were caught painting Mattel kid's toys with lead paint?) We even add self-cleaning properties.
Manufacturing Versatility
By using 6" x 12" face boards we also gain the versatility of manufacturing signs with twice the available height options.
Free Factory Tour
Come and see the array of equipment
and tools, and the facility dedicated to making good
signs.
Contact a sales consultant to arrange a
plant tour, or just stop by. Click our "Contact
Us" tab for location and contact
details.
Quality Certified Signs™ Trained Technicians
 All Sunburst Displays™ shop, installation and service personnel are QualityCertifiedSigns™ trained technicians.
Go to
www.QualityCertifiedSigns.org for listing details.
Certified Welding
Sunburst Displays™ employs Certified Welders; horizontal, vertical, and overhead.
We are virtually the only sign company in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex employing certified welders.
The quality suppliers get their product to us in
4-8 weeks. Our manufacturing cycle is usually slightly shorter than this.
Since most electronic message centers are built into
or installed as part of additional signs we need
time to fit the parts together.
  Sunburst Displays™ warranty is the STRONGEST TOTAL WARRANTY for Digital Electronic Message Centers in the industry!!!ry!ry!ry!
If ANY part of a Sunburst Displays™ electronic message center fails in the first three years of service, if properly supplied with power, Sunburst Displays™ will provide BOTH parts and service FREE OF CHARGE through Signs Manufacturing Corporation.
Even stronger, this Initial Warranty is extendable to six years.
Plus, Sunburst Displays™ warrants their sign with a LIFETIME WARRANTY, again through Signs Manufacturing Corporation, that reduces both our normal labor rates for service, and parts costs, 20% forever.
Sunburst Displays™ Lifetime Warranty is transferable at no additional cost!
No other Digital Electronic Message Center manufacturer IN THE WORLD provides a warranty on ANY labor, much less a transferrable warranty.
Additionally, after the Initial Warranty period, Sunburst Displays™ will provide free replacement parts for any previously replaced part that fails within one year of installation.
Other manufacturers whose products we install and service have varying new-sign parts-only warranties that average 3 years.
"Our
($70,000) electronic-message-centers were nightmares. Even
though they were only 2 years old the manufacturer
refused to service them. Your new signs, and
your service, have been exceptional."
Major
Vincent, Salvation Army
"...I had to hound Vital ***** (a sign broker) for weeks and weeks, then I had to call ******** (the manufacturer) to finally get a hold of Vital *****. I thought Vital ***** was taking my deposit money and running. When he asked for the second deposit I was kind of hesitant based on my experience with him. I did some research on Vital ***** and there were judgments in Dallas County, civil judgments for Vital ***** taking money and not putting up a sign! But the manufacturer said I had to deal with him, and he already had a great deal of my money.
The installation company he subcontracted with, City *****, finally did show up and after giving them another $30,000 the sign was installed but City ***** didn't pay Vital *****, I guess, his "fair cut" of it.
Vital ***** was initially mad at City ***** and then he was mad at me, so he came and took the controller out of the sign so now it doesn't even work! I tried to go back to ******** (the manufacturer), and gave them all of the documentation and they said it's between me and Vital *****, they won't do anything about it. I'm never dealing any way but directly with a manufacturer again!"
Mr. Sinkler, Freedom Wash
"...the sign will be dismantled. ...not knowing when and how to get parts was a major factor..."
Cathy Clarke, Johnson Elementary School, Southlake. They are throwing away their $40,000 six-month old sign because they can't get parts to repair it (company out of business.)
Controlling Message Center Cost
Electronic Message Centers cost a lot of money, but they achieve tremendous results.
To keep from spending more money than necessary, consider the design of your sign and the results you want to achieve.
Rather than purchase a larger, blank, rectangular message center and display your name and all other information on it, consider incorporating signage that constantly displays the messages you want to constantly display. It will cost less, and look better!
Because we manufacture and install all types of signage, not just electronic message centers, we can design, build, and install the most cost efficient and effective signage for you
(see our "Design & Marketing" page!)
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Interested in the concept of electronic message
centers, but unfamiliar with their cost?
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