Electro-Mech builds four indoor Hockey scoreboards. The smallest shows Time, Period and Points; the largest adds Shots On Goal and a pair of Penalty Timers for each team. This page sets out what each model is, what the control console does behind it, and what our own sales and shipping records say about the facilities that have ordered them since 2001.
The short answer
The Hockey line runs from the Model LX8350, a 9 ft x 3 ft display showing Time, Period and Points, to the Model LX8850, a 12 ft x 5 ft display that adds Shots On Goal and two Penalty Timers per team with the Player number beside each Penalty. All four use 12-inch and 9-inch digits and run on 120 VAC. In our records, the facilities that order them are municipal rinks, ice centers and amateur hockey associations - not schools.
The four indoor Hockey scoreboards, and what each one shows
The four models differ in cabinet size and in how many functions the face carries. Every one of them uses the same digit sizes and the same 120 VAC supply, so the practical questions when choosing are how much wall you have, how far away the far seats are, and whether you need Penalty Timers and Shots On Goal on the scoreboard itself.
| Model | Cabinet | Digits | Weight | Power |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LX8350 | 9 ft x 3 ft | 12 in, 9 in | 85 lbs | 120 VAC, 1 A |
| LX8650 | 9 ft x 5 ft | 12 in, 9 in | 145 lbs | 120 VAC, 1 A |
| LX8750 | 9 ft x 5 ft | 12 in, 9 in | 145 lbs | 120 VAC, 1 A |
| LX8850 | 12 ft x 5 ft | 12 in, 9 in | 215 lbs | 120 VAC, 2 A |
The LX8350 is the most ordered of the four on our own product pages and the most straightforward: Time, Period and Points, in a cabinet light enough at 85 lbs to go on most walls without special structural work. The LX8850 is the top of the line and the only one that carries the full Hockey feature set on its face.
A note on the size, because it is easy to picture these wrong: the widest of the four is twelve feet across. A hockey rink is 200 feet long. These are wall-mounted or ceiling-hung scoreboards sized for community rinks and ice centers, not the centre-hung structures seen in professional arenas.
How Penalty Timers work on an Electro-Mech scoreboard
On the LX8850, each team gets a pair of Penalty Timers. Each one counts down the time remaining on a Penalty and shows the number of the Player it was assigned to, so the Penalty and the Player stay together on the face rather than being tracked on paper at the scorer's table.
Behind the display there is more capacity than the face shows. The Hockey software in the control console tracks up to eight Players and Penalty Times - four for each team - while the typical scoreboard face shows two lines per team. The console holds the queue; the scoreboard shows what is running.
One point about labelling that buyers often ask about: we do not label individual Penalty Timers as belonging to a home or a guest bench. Every function on one side of the display sits under the GUEST caption and every function on the other side under HOME - Points, Shots On Goal and Penalty Times all share the team caption on their side.
What the sales and shipping record shows about who buys them
Electro-Mech keeps a record of what it has sold and shipped - organization, model, city and ship date. That record has sport codes for baseball, basketball and football, and everything else falls under a general code, so hockey cannot be counted directly. What can be counted is the set of organizations whose names identify them as ice facilities or hockey programs: ice arenas, ice centers, ice houses, rinks, skating centers and hockey clubs and associations.
By that reading the record holds 100 entries across 87 such organizations in 33 states, shipped between 2001 and 2025. Two things stand out.
The geography is northern. New Jersey and Pennsylvania lead with 11 entries each, then Massachusetts with 9, New York with 6, and North Carolina and Connecticut with 5 - a different map from the company's baseball and football records, which are concentrated in the southeast.
| Model | Entries in the ice-facility record |
|---|---|
| LX8650 | 22 |
| LX7860 | 21 |
| LX8850 | 19 |
| LX8350 | 9 |
| LX8440 | 9 |
| LX6630 | 6 |
The buyers are rinks and clubs, not schools. Terry Conners Rink in Stamford, Connecticut; Campion Ice House in Hailey, Idaho; Lexington Ice Center in Kentucky; Clearwater Ice Arena in Florida; The Ice Forum in Gainesville, Georgia; Laramie Amateur Hockey Club in Wyoming; Tomah Youth Hockey in Wisconsin; Pueblo Bulls Hockey Club in Colorado. Alongside the ice facilities the record also holds roller and street hockey programs - Foxchase Roller Hockey in Philadelphia, West Deptford Street Hockey in New Jersey - which order soccer-style displays rather than the Hockey models.
Thirteen of those organizations appear more than once, and the pattern is usually a scoreboard and a second display ordered together in the same year: Terry Conners Rink took an LX8350 and an LX8850 in 2017, Laramie Amateur Hockey Club an LX8350 and an LX8850 in 2023, Lexington Ice Center an LX7406 and an LX8650 in 2022.
One caveat on all of the above, and it applies to every number on this page: these are records of what was sold and shipped. A shipped scoreboard can sit in storage for months before it goes up, and the record does not say where a display ended up or whether it is still in use.
Indoor and outdoor: what actually differs
The difference between our indoor and outdoor Hockey scoreboards is the LEDs, not the cabinet.
Indoor Hockey models use a three-colour arrangement - Green, Red and Amber digits - which helps the eye find the figure it is looking for on a face carrying Time, Period, Points, Shots On Goal and Penalty Times at once. Outdoor models use super-bright LEDs configured for the widest possible viewing angle, in Red or Amber.
Electronic Team Names are an upgrade available on all of our indoor Hockey scoreboards and on most outdoor models; the portable scoreboards and the compact LX7860 are the exceptions. The software that drives them is built into the standard Hockey control console, so no separate keyboard is needed. Our ETNs use a 9-pixel character height - 14 pixels on some larger models - which fits more legible letters across the same space than a typical 8-pixel text line.
What does not differ: all Electro-Mech scoreboard cabinets are aluminium, indoor and outdoor alike, and the ETL Listing applies to the complete sign in both cases.
Mounting, four-sided configurations and ID Panels
Indoor Hockey models are usually attached to a wall, though they can be suspended from the ceiling instead. Every single-face indoor model can also be built as a four-faced, centre-hung configuration, which keeps the information facing the ice from every side of the building.
Most of our Hockey scoreboards can be built with ID Panels - a built-in area in an expanded cabinet for sponsor advertising, team branding or the facility name. A panel along the top can be curved into an arch or a dome, and an open-frame truss panel is available where a more prominent structure is wanted. For a good many rinks this is the part of the purchase that pays for the rest of it.
What Electro-Mech does not offer
It is worth being direct about the boundaries of the line, because they decide whether these models fit a facility at all.
- No sport-mode switching. An Electro-Mech Hockey scoreboard is a Hockey scoreboard. There is no console setting that turns its face into a basketball, volleyball or wrestling layout. Facilities that need one display to change its function between sports should say so early in the conversation.
- No power play indicator. It is not a feature of our Hockey scoreboards.
- Period counts to 4. There is no separate overtime indication on the Period digit.
- No IP rating and no temperature rating. Our cabinets are not sealed - they have drainage holes, because water gets into an outdoor cabinet and has to leave again. We do not publish an ingress-protection figure or an operating-temperature range for them.
- No pricing online. Configuration decides the price, so quotes come from the sales team rather than from a page.
- ScoreLink is a wireless communication system, not a control system and not a model. It is an optional upgrade available with any of our scoreboards, it carries the signal between the console and the display at a distance of up to 750 feet, and the console itself still needs power at the scorer's table.
Frequently asked questions
Which Electro-Mech Hockey scoreboard has Penalty Timers?
The Model LX8850. It carries a pair of Penalty Timers for each team, each counting down the time remaining on a Penalty and showing the number of the Player it was assigned to, along with Shots On Goal. The LX8350 shows Time, Period and Points.
How many Penalties can the console track at once?
The Hockey software in the control console tracks up to eight Players and Penalty Times, four for each team, while the typical scoreboard face shows two lines per team.
How big are the Hockey scoreboards?
From 9 ft x 3 ft for the LX8350 to 12 ft x 5 ft for the LX8850, with 12-inch and 9-inch digits throughout. Weights run from 85 lbs to 215 lbs, and all four models run on 120 VAC.
What kinds of facilities appear in the Hockey record?
Municipal rinks, ice centers and ice houses, amateur and youth hockey associations, and roller and street hockey programs. Across 100 entries between 2001 and 2025 the record holds no high school or college ice facility.
Can one of these scoreboards also serve another sport?
Not by switching modes - the face is built for Hockey. Where a facility wants one display for several activities, the practical answer is usually a simpler scoreboard with Time, Period and Points, which reads correctly for more than one sport because it does not carry sport-specific functions.
Can the scoreboard be operated without running cable to the scorer's table?
Yes, with the ScoreLink wireless communication system, an optional upgrade that carries the signal up to 750 feet. The control console still needs power where it sits.
Working out which model fits your rink?
Electro-Mech has built scoreboards in Wrightsville, Georgia since 1963. Tell our sales team the size of the space, the mounting you have in mind and whether you need Penalty Timers and Shots On Goal on the face, and they will put a configuration and a quote together for you.