• Rugged cabinet construction and long-life LEDs ensure there is no more reliable football scoreboard available than the Electro-Mech products featured on this page.
• Low-powered electrical components and our simplified installation system provide savings on installation and operation costs over traditional incandescent scoreboards or scoreboards from other manufacturers.
• Scoreboard service that cannot be topped: Not even a high school football coach could be more interested it making sure your scoreboard is delivered on time and works for Friday night’s game.

Customize Your Football Scoreboard with ID Panels and More

You are the head football coach at a college coming off a season that
defied all expectations and led to your second national championship
in a row. It’s time for a new scoreboard, and the alumni have been
spilling money on the project like gravy at Thanksgiving. Well,
congratulations. And thanks for calling our company, because we can
meet your needs.

Okay, maybe your budget is a good bit tighter than the one in that
scenario. Still, you want to pick a scoreboard that does more than
just tell you the Time, Scores, and Yards To Go. Our sales staff will
help you design a scoreboard package that will add character to your
football field without draining all the money from your football
program.

Start with color choices. We offer sixteen standard paint
colors for the face of your scoreboard. In addition, you may specify
almost any other color for a small up charge. The scoreboard face
may be outlined with a contrasting accent stripe — usually white or
gold — to add some extra pizazz. You also have a choice of amber or
red super-bright LEDs to finish out the perfect color combination.

Next, add an ID panel or two or more. An ID panel is simply an
additional surface on which we can apply words (like your team’s name
or the name of the field) and images (like your team’s mascot or the
logo of an advertiser). Because most football scoreboards are wider
than they are tall, football ID panels are typically the same width as
the scoreboard and are added above or below the scoreboard cabinet to
increase the combined height of the structure.

Scoreboard ID panels can be simple rectangles. They may incorporate
half-circle elements for domed tops or longer arcs that yield arched
tops. In addition, Electro-Mech can provide decorative truss elements
to tie together the package visually and provide a sense of style.

LED Football Scoreboards

Electro-Mech has been around for almost 50 years, and we’ve heard a
lot of questions about scoreboards. Back in the 1960s, people used to
ask us if we made electronic scoreboards because the most common type
of scoreboard in small venues was either a large blackboard (so the
scores were written in chalk) or a peg board with numbers printed on
cards to hand on the pegs. Electronic scoreboards were a new-fangled
idea compared to these old hand-powered devices.

In the 1970s, the phrase “digital scoreboard” was one we often heard.
Of course, all scoreboards are digital scoreboards in the sense that
all points are either made or not made. You cannot have “almost
seven” points, as you might if scores were an analog concept. Folks
were probably just so used to talking about digital watches and
digital calculators, that somehow digital scoreboards just made sense.

The real technological breakthrough for the scoreboard industry began
in the 1990s when LEDs began to be bright enough to replace
incandescent lamps as the source of light in scoreboards and other
displays. Our company launched a series of indoor scoreboards using
this technology in 1996. Our outdoor LED scoreboard line made its
debut in 2001.

These little Light Emitting Diodes are able to produce light
concentrated at a specific wavelength (color) using much less energy
than a light bulb, which throws off energy across a wide spectrum –
much of which is in the infrared (heat) wavelengths or in other
wavelengths that we cannot see. Thus the LED is a much more efficient
device and costs less to operate than an incandescent lamp. They also
last an average of 50 to 100 times longer than the typical light bulb.

The upshot for you, the scoreboard customer, is increased reliability
and decreased operating costs. Also, because the electrical current
required to operate an LED scoreboard is substantially less than what
is needed by an incandescent lamp scoreboard of similar dimensions and
functions, the cost of installing breakers and running power cables
goes down as well. The reduced heat and current load also helps make
the electronics running the LEDs less expensive and more reliable.

Wireless Football Scoreboards

The second big technological advancement for scoreboards in the recent
years has been in the use of wireless technology. In the past,
scoreboard installations required a data cable be run from the point
of operation — usually the press box in a football stadium — to the
scoreboard. Though scoreboard data cable is relatively inexpensive,
sometimes the cost of digging a trench to bury the cable out of the
way can make the installation price hard to stomach. This is
especially true where the ground is rocky or where obstacles such as
sprinkler systems have to be avoided.

ScoreLink is Electro-Mech’s solution to these dilemmas. This product
is a set of RF modems. One modem serves as a transmitter attached to
or embedded within the control console. The transmitter modem
interprets the signal output by the control console and converts it
into Radio Frequency waves. These RF transmissions are picked up by
the other half of ScoreLink — a receiver module or modules attached
to a scoreboard or and accessory display like a play clock (delay of
game timer). The receiver converts the RF waves back into the data
signal expected by the scoreboard. Thus no extra wire and no trenches
to dig.