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About VESA Standard
About VESA Standard
- VESA Mount for LCD Monitors, LCD Displays and Plasma Screens
- How
to attach your LCD or plasma monitor to a mounting device
including wall mounts, monitor mounts on desktop, pole or
ceiling mounts
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Manufacturers of monitors
have agreed on a industry interface standard, which means
a hole pattern on the back of the monitor, screen or display
that fits any mounting device whether for VESA wall mounts,
desktop or ceiling mounts. The following summarizes VESA
standard mounting hole patterns that are used today: For
smaller and medium flat panels, LCD monitors and screens
from 12" to 22.9" diagonal, and falling in a weight range
up to 30.8 lbs (14 kg): 75 x 75 mm or 100 x 100 mm
(2.95" x 2.95" or 3.94" x 3.94")
For larger monitors with viewing
screen from 23" to 30.9" diagonally, weight range up to
50 lbs: VESA 200mm x 100mm and 200mm x 200mm
For large Plasma screens and
LCD TV displays 31" to 90" diagonal, but weights not greater
than 250 lbs. there are various hole patterns in 200 mm
increments: 400mm x 200mm, or 600mm x 400mm, or 800mm x
400mm
The initials, VESA, stands
for Video Electronics Standards Association. This is an
international non-profit corporation, which represents more
than 300 corporate members worldwide. The corporation promotes
and develops timely, relevant, open standards for the display
and display interface industry, ensuring interoperability
and encouraging innovation and market growth. The
standards provide specific guidelines of the mounting hole
pattern placement, screw size, and guidelines for the mounting
pad or mounting apparatus to be utilized by equipment manufacturers
based on a the size of the screen and monitor's weight.
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As a service to our customers,
Ergo In Demand is providing this brief informational overview,
though this is not meant to be taken as a complete, detailed
or technical explanation. Additional details can be found
by ordering the specific FDMI mounting design specification
directly from the
VESA organization
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The MIS-D accommodates flat panel displays with screens
from 12" to 22.9" diagonal, and falling in a weight range
up to 30.8 lbs (14 kg).
According to the
FDMI summary
(http://www.vesa.org/summary/sumfdmi.mht
), manufacturers of these sized monitors are provided the
capability of designing 4-hole mounting interfaces either
center mounting, edge mounting or some combination, and
are provided the specific methodologies for this.
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The mounting plates shown above
provide mounting capability with hole patterns set at 100
x 100 mm (4" x 4")and also at 75 x 75 mm (3" x 3") mounting
hole pattern. |
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has
a six hole mounting methodology that applies to monitors
weighing up to or less than 50 lbs and with a viewing screen
measuring approximately 23" to 30.9" diagonally. VESA -
defined standards provide manufacturers with specified guidelines
for either center mounting, edge mounting, or center and
edge mounting.
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The original 1997 standard (Flat Panel Monitor Physical
Mounting Interface Standard) established the first "industry
standard" for mounting plates and hole patterns to ensure
easy mounting of monitors and arms from different manufacturers
based on size and weight of the screens. Those standards
set the precedent for the smaller and medium sized screens
available. Since that time, however, there has been the
development and explosion of popularity for much larger
plasma and LCD screens that were not covered by the 1997
published guidelines. With the release of this updated mount
standard, manufacturers of flat panels sized up to 90" diagonally,
have been provided upgraded standards to follow so that
screens from numerous manufacturers can be built within
standards easily matched by various mounting arm manufacturers.
All of the computer monitor mounting options at ErgoInDemand.com are VESA
compliant.
Review
our wide range of options, and choose the one that
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For
monitors that were not VESA compliant, alternate interface
brackets are often available for purchase separately, though
this caused added inconvenience and expense to consumers.
Regarding the larger plasmas and LCDs that have been on
the market in recent years, until the new FDMI guidelines
were published, monitor arm manufacturers and consumers
were in a similar situation of having to develop or find
interface brackets allowing screens of similar size and
weight from numerous manufacturers to be, for example, wall
mounted, by various arm manufacturers.
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These monitors
may be built with a 200mm-spaced approved hole pattern variation,
such as 400mm x 200mm, or 600mm x 400mm, or 800mm x 400mm
that are based on VESA specifications. At
ErgoInDemand.com, our product experts can match a mount
to the correct bracket for your large LCD or plasma
display.
Review our selection here.
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According to the standard's organization summary document
(Section 1.3.7), "...in all cases the display diagonal viewing
area size shall be used as the primary guideline for selecting
the part of the standard to be utilized for a given display."
What if you don't find any visible
mounting hole pattern on your flat panel? If a series of
mounting holes are not visible in the rear of your monitor,
often the foot (or stand/base) has to be removed to find
the hole pattern. If the electronic is located in the foot,
however, don't remove it. In that case your LCD will not
mount to any arm. However, first, check your owner manual
for information about the location of the mounting holes.
Check to see if your monitor's
manufacturer states the flat panel is built to the VESA
standards. Your manufacturer is the main source of information
about the construction of the LCD or plasma flat panel.
However, we have compiled VESA
monitor mount reference charts where you can find all
common LCD monitors manufacturers, a listing by flat panel
model numbers, including information if the particular LCD
monitor is compliant with VESA standard as described above.
This information is continually updating, though, particularly
regarding plasma screens, so if you don't find your model
on our reference chart, contact us
for assistance.
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You will never have to second
guess if an LCD or plasma mount sold by Ergo In Demand,
Inc. meets the requirements necessary to install your monitor.
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