wall Mounting an LCD

[Bouffont]

Hi All,

Had a bit of a browse for this Q in the group but couldn't find a decent answer.

I want to secure a 26" LCD screen to a partition wall, only thing is that I dont reckon the wall can handle this. I've got the option of drilling right through the whole wall to the other side if necesary.

Would this work if I put a large metal plate on one side of the wall, drilled through the plate and whole partition to the other side, then into the wall TV wall mount.

Or will the problem be more the downward force of the TV?

Thanks for any input

Tom

[Tim Mitchell]

In article , Bouffont writes

How much does it weigh? The wall should be able to handle it no problem if you can fix to one of the vertical studs inside the wall. If not you might be able to cut out a piece of plasterboard behind where the TV is going and inset a piece of ply fixed across 2 studs.

if it was a 26" CRT on a bracket it might be a different story.

[Alan]

You'd be better finding the studs within the wall and fixing to them. An electronic stud detector should help here.

[doozer]

I would have thought the wall would handle that load easily if it is attached to a stud. If you want to attach it to the plasterboard though it might be a different matter. If you are willing to risk it there are numerous plasterboard fixings that IME are pretty good. Personally I would probably mount a sheet of ply on the wall attached to 2 or more studs in two places (2 per stud that - is not 2 total). Then attach your LCD screen to the ply. Perhaps a bit over kill but it won't fall down.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Find the studs and fix a board to these. Fix the mountings to that.

[Sparks]

I would go for the studs as others have suggested.

Can you tell me what mount you went for, as I will be getting the same size LCD for my conservatory soon!

Sparks...

[Lee]

Are large LCD panels sufficiently tolerant to temperature extremes these days to be happy in a conservatory? I know the small ones seem to do OK in cars ;)

Lee

[Sparks]

Well, there is two radiators in there, so it doesn't get bloody freezing!

[Rolyata]

Apologies for veering slightly off course here.

I've been looking for an LCD of about 19" with integrated Freeview.

My local dealers insist that there's no demand so they don't make them, but I point out that they are starting to turn off the analogue signal and you can't sensibly balance a set-top receiver on top of a wall mounted LCD TV, therefore an integrated one is what I want.

I know that Toshiba do one. Does anybody know of others ?

Now back to the topic .... ... I'm not at all sure about how well current LCDs cope with very high temperatures. A neighbour was very distressed last year to find that the LCD screen on his laptop had ceased to work properly after he left it in his conservatory for the afternoon. Fortunately as it cooled, it seemed to be OK again and now appears none the worse for it's adventure.

[Bouffont]

Wow, amazingly quick replies, thanks all!!

I'll let you all know how it goes (and what mount I go for Sparks!)

Thanks all!

Tom

[tony sayer]

In article , [e-mail] writes

Beg pardon that is only in two locations where the government using our money replaced all the equipment just to say then they can do it, the whole thing is a con!.

Its not supposed to happen till sometime around 2009 or I bet even later....

[doozer]

Modern LCDs are have a fairly good working temperature range and will generally recover from being exposed to high(ish) and low temperatures (they are stored refrigerated after production). What will damage them irreversibly though is prolonged exposure to sunlight (UV). It will cause them to turn yellow over time. An LCD left with sun on the screen will last maybe a year before it starts to look fairly poor.

[Lee]

The manual for my laptop has dire warnings about direct sunlight being bad for the screen. I thought they meant heat, I didn't realise they were sensitive to UV. I know it sounds obvious that they would be, but I just expected that they would have had a UV filter incorporated into the panel.

Another good reason not to leave the laptop lid open when not using it then :)

Lee

[doozer]

They do have a UV filter but as with sun tan lotion it will fail eventually and turn yellow. UV is very damaging to molecules because the photons carry enough energy to break bonds and hence degrade the filter (which is also why UV causes skin cancer in humans).

[Cuprager]

I mounted a 17" widescreen lcd monitor to a plasterboard wall, it was 'inconvenient' to locate it into one of the studs so i decided to try and mound the bracket directly using plasterboard fixings (bracket required 6). The monitor was rock solid and hasnt caused me any concern over the past year or so it has been mounted like that. If it did seem a bit unstable i would have went for the batten between studs option.

Gerry

[Alan Vann]

There's a thread on uk.tech.digital-tv entitled Small Freeview LCD TV (05/04/2005)which seems to have turned up a few.....

Alan

[Moonshine]

I got the mount for my Tosh 27" from here...

to choose from.

Actual one I used was...

checked it would be OK with the bigger screen - the weight was within limits.

Best price I could find