[tyingq]

That would be roughly a 0.75mm pitch.

Not rad hardened, and not quite 0.75mm, but you can buy a 1.25mm pitch LED matrix panel for a relatively low cost. It's an RGB panel instead of monochrome for the HDSP-2132.

https://www.alibaba.com/pla/Hot-sale-small-pitch-led-display...

[tal8d]

Unless I'm misreading the page, it is claiming a resolution of 104x78. So that means 8,112 LEDs.

The HDSP-2132 is made of 8 character elements, each element has a resolution of 5x7. So a 80x24 terminal would have a resolution of 400x168... 67,200 LEDs.

So about a magnitude off, even before ignoring the built in character spacing :)

[tyingq]

I wasn't suggesting one of them would settle the matter. I was suggesting it would be cheaper to use them instead. They are made to be grouped together, and daisy chained to a single controller.

I believe each module would be 160 x 120 dots (19,200 dots total) though, based on module size and LED pitch. I'm unclear on where you got 104x78.

[tal8d]

> I'm unclear on where you got 104x78.

https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/Hot-sale-small-pitch-...

    Module  Res     Size
    P1.923  104*78  200*150

I went ahead and counted... 128x96 (12,288 LEDs)

https://imgur.com/a/4qdY1Pr

[tyingq]

It's just bad pictures and errant info.

Here's a better link: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32965783207.html

It's 160x120, as I mentioned for a 200x150mm P1.25 led module. You just divide the width/height by the pitch to see the number of dots.

As far as I can tell, 1.25mm is the smallest pitch available for these modules.

[tal8d]

lol, I marked every tenth led manually and counted twice - the number is correct, the marketplace is wrong.

https://imgur.com/a/NqVXtDd

https://www.mblock.com.tw/upload/Investor/events/2020/202008...

[tyingq]

You counted dots on a picture of something other than a "200mmx150mm P1.25 led module". Pitch is the distance between the center of each LED.

1.25mm x 160 = 200mm

1.25mm x 120 = 150mm

[parsecs]

Is over $100 that low cost? Surely there could be better prices.

[tyingq]

19,200 RGB LEDs plus all the mux chips adds up, but these signage modules are significantly cheaper than anything else with discrete separate LEDs.