Basketball leads Connecticut in our sales and shipping record, so this article starts indoors: which basketball layout fits the gym, and which console runs it. Three models carry the story. The LX2350 leads the state record. The LX1060 is the outdoor baseball and softball scoreboard in second place. The LX2655 is the taller indoor alternative.

The LX2655 spec sheet puts its cabinet at 9 ft x 5 ft and 133 lb, with 12-inch digits for Guest Team Points, Home Team Points and the Period Clock, 9-inch digits for all others, and caption heights of 5, 4 and 3 inches. The LX2655 draws 1.5 amps, and the LX2655-ETN with Electronic Team Names draws 2.2 amps. A full-sized 37-key control console with LCD display and fifty programmable brightness levels come standard with it. For a gym that wants more on its face than the basics, that is the first spec sheet I would open.

Why does a Connecticut scoreboard purchase need a closer look now?

Connecticut school sports participation fell in 2025-26 while basketball rules changed in 2023-24, so a scoreboard bought today has to match current rules and the sports a school actually fields.

Before comparing models, I would put three plain questions to any request:

1. Which sports will the scoreboard serve, and in which gym, rink or field?
2. What must players and officials read from it under the rules in force today?
3. Will the existing control console work with the new display, and has that been confirmed?

According to a September 2026 report on the NFHS participation survey, Connecticut slipped from 29th to 32nd nationally, with 107,053 participants in 2025-26, down 4.13% from 111,664 a year earlier. The national total moved the other way, to over 8.4 million. The Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference (CIAC), which compiles its own count by a different method, also reported a drop, to 101,444 participants.

Those figures make a growth argument hard to sustain. The common assumption is that a new scoreboard follows a growing program. I see the purchase differently. A scoreboard's primary job is keeping and displaying accurate information, including time, for players and officials, and spectators come second. That job does not shrink with a roster.

The rulebook is the second reason to look closely. Since the 2023-24 season, NFHS Rule 4-8-1 awards two free throws for every common foul once the opponent commits five fouls in a quarter, and team fouls reset at the end of each quarter. The change eliminated the one-and-one. High school rules are written by the NFHS and applied through each state association, which in Connecticut is the CIAC. At the scorer's table, the bonus now turns on quarters rather than halves, and the scoreboard is where players and officials see it.

Read side by side, these 2 sources point one way. A Connecticut request rests on fit with the sport and the rules, not on headcount. In other words, the question is which display fits the room, not whether demand justifies one. For an indoor gym, I would begin with the basketball layout and work outward, and Electro-Mech's basketball scoreboard lineup is the natural first stop because that is where the current rule change lands.

What does the LX2655 spec sheet list beyond digit heights?

Beyond its digit heights, the LX2655 comes with an all-aluminum cabinet, wall mounting hardware and a baked-on enamel face, and it takes optional ID panels and full color video panels.

The LX2655 is one of the five most-shipped models in our Connecticut sales and shipping record, so its build details matter to a lot of gyms. Our review of the LX2655 spec sheet describes a single cabinet with heavy duty extruded aluminum framing, light weight and rust free. The face carries automotive grade baked-on enamel paint. Optional equipment includes ID panels with custom graphics that mount above or below the scoreboard and full color video and other electronic display panels.

I would settle ID panels and paint at the quote stage, alongside the console. A spec sheet settles hardware only. On a baseball field, the rules a coach works under come from the CIAC, because NFHS leaves pitch limits to each state association.

What does our Connecticut sales and shipping record show by sport and model?

Basketball, not baseball, leads Connecticut's record, 88 records to 80, and the LX2350 indoor scoreboard alone holds more records than the next two models together.

Our review of the Connecticut sales and shipping record counts 210 records across 97 cities and towns, running from 1999 to 2025, and places Connecticut #23 of 50 states by units shipped. Behind basketball and baseball come football with 18 records, hockey with 13, soccer with 9 and lacrosse with 2. Each record is one row per organization, model and city. The rows cover what we sold and shipped, not what is standing today.

The record counts models by their LX equivalent: every variant of one model, such as 2350, 2350-C and LX2350, counts as that one model. On that basis the state holds 43 distinct models, and five lead the list.

The LX2655 result deserves a second look. Its own model page calls it "our most popular model for Basketball," yet in Connecticut it sits third, behind the LX2350 and the outdoor LX1060. The record does not say why. The same page describes removable caption plates along the bottom that label the lower half of the display for volleyball games or wrestling matches. For a gym that hosts more than basketball, that feature is worth weighing.

Fifth on the list is the LX8350, an indoor hockey and multi-sport display, with 9 records. A buyer comparing it with a basketball layout can start from our hockey scoreboards page and the model's own spec sheet.

Taken together, the counts make Connecticut a basketball state first in our record, with outdoor baseball close behind. Older gyms raise one more question. The LX2655 spec sheet lists a data output port on the cabinet that supports daisy chaining additional displays. Where a gym already has an LX2350 or LX2655 and plans to add displays, I would confirm with Electro-Mech support that the console on hand will drive them before ordering.

The record's counting rule is easiest to see as a lookup. The left column shows how rows are spelled; the right column shows the model each row counts toward.

Record spelling   Counted as
2350              LX2350
2350-C            LX2350
LX2350            LX2350

Counting merges variants. Spec sheets do not. The LX2655-ETN, for example, has its own spec sheet and its own figures, so I would look up any spec by the exact variant, never by the LX equivalent.

Why doesn't the LX2350's lead settle which scoreboard a Connecticut gym needs?

The LX2350's 6937 records at 5826 organizations mix in LX2655 and LX1060 lines, and none of them says why it shipped, so popularity alone settles little.

Our LX2350 sales and shipping record covers shipments from 1970 to 2025 in 53 states, plus 2 private residences. By sport, the entries divide into basketball 5498 and baseball 1439. By the spelling the record uses, it counts 2350 at 767, LX2655 at 752, LX2350 at 731, 2655 at 581, LX1060 at 523 and 2350-C at 488. In other words, organizations on the LX2350 record also carry LX2655 and LX1060 entries, and several had more than one model shipped on a single date. The record does not say where any of them hung or whether one is still in use.

The spec sheet shows what the LX2350 is built to do, and where it stops. The LX2350 spec sheet puts the cabinet at 9 ft x 3 ft and 89 lb, with 12-inch digits for Guest Team Points, Home Team Points and the Period Clock, a 9-inch Period digit, and 3-inch Bonus and Possession indicators. The LX2350 draws 1.2 amps at 120 VAC, and the LX2350-ETN, with a 4-inch caption height, draws 1.9 amps. The model page says the layout "covers the basics needed to keep up with almost any sport," and adds that it does not look jumbled when ID panels for advertising are added. Basics are the point. A gym that needs more on its face than points, clock, period, bonus and possession should compare layouts before following the state count.

Baseball brings a second rulebook. In 2016 the NFHS Baseball Rules Committee revised Rule 6-2-6 so that each member state association develops its own pitching restriction policy, based on the number of pitches thrown in a game, with a required rest period between appearances. For a Connecticut school, that policy comes from the CIAC rather than from a national figure. I would read the state association's current policy before settling the baseball side of any purchase.

Read that way, the LX2350's lead in Connecticut is a starting point. A model count tells a buyer what shipped, not what a gym needs.

How should a Connecticut buyer compare LED scoreboard manufacturers in the United States?

Start with what the gym already owns: ask Electro-Mech support whether the existing scoreboard can take a new console, then check the CIAC's current rules before comparing any manufacturer.

A comparison of manufacturers is only useful once the buyer knows what the current scoreboard can still do. The support check raised earlier for added displays applies to the console as well. Our support team starts that conversation by looking up what shipped on the original order and whether the scoreboard is wired to its console or runs on ScoreLink Wireless RF, then confirms whether a new console can be set up to drive it. Either path, a new console or a new scoreboard, starts with the same call.

Basketball adds a rules question that a catalog cannot answer. NFHS approved the 35-second shot clock by state adoption for the 2022-23 season, which lets each state association adopt one under the guidelines in the NFHS Basketball Rules Book. Before that approval in 2021, 10 states already allowed a shot clock on an approved experimental basis or outside the NFHS rules framework. Whether a Connecticut gym needs one is the CIAC's call. If the answer is yes, shot clocks are normally sold in pairs, and the console question above applies to them too.

Ownership of the project is the last thing to settle. In a 2021 thread on the r/k12sysadmin forum, a poster described the replacement of an "aging scoreboard" on the high school football field, planned as a "digital LED scoreboard / video wall," landing with the school's IT department under the community maxim "If it plugs in, it's part of the IT Department." The district quoted earlier did the opposite and handed scoreboard projects to athletics. Ownership decides who writes the specification. It also decides who calls support when something goes wrong.

For a Connecticut buyer, I would take three steps in this order:

• Read the spec sheet for the exact model and variant under consideration, because each model carries its own figures and none carries over to another.
• Read the CIAC's current basketball and baseball policies, so the scoreboard and console match the rules the games are played under.
• Settle which department owns the project, then request a quote with those answers in hand.

A manufacturer comparison made after those steps compares like with like.

What should a Connecticut buyer take from our sales and shipping record?

Start from the gym, because basketball leads the state record, then let each model's own spec sheet, not the state count, decide between the LX2350 and the LX2655.

When one model outnumbers the next two together, it is tempting to read the count as advice. I would not. Counts describe what shipped. Spec sheets describe the scoreboard. The LX2655 spec sheet lists a center-hung, four-sided configuration among its options and a choice of 18 standard paint colors as standard equipment, so the taller layout can hang over the floor as well as mount on a wall. A purchase made from the spec sheet holds up longer than one made from the count. Those two spec sheets, the LX2350 and the LX2655, are what I would bring to a quote request.