Rhode Island Scoreboards: The LX1030, LX1050 and LX2655 Across 112 Records

Your first decision is where the scoreboard will sit: on posts beside a field, or on a gym wall. The LX2655 spec sheet lists mounting hardware for attaching its cabinet to a wall as standard equipment, so an indoor order includes that hardware.

The state is compact. Its public schools enrolled 137,449 students and employed 10,786 teachers in 2022. School teams and community leagues both buy scoreboards here, so the record mixes high school fields with league diamonds and gyms.

The sections below work from published documents only. They compare the LX1030 and LX1050 on their spec sheets, explain what a sales and shipping record can and cannot prove, set the LX2655 beside the LX2350 for a gym that hosts more than basketball, and finish with sizing, mounting and wiring steps for the contractor who puts the scoreboard up. Every figure comes from a model's own spec sheet or from the record itself. Nothing is estimated.

What does Electro-Mech's Rhode Island sales and shipping record show?

Rhode Island holds 112 records across 35 cities and towns in our sales and shipping record, running from 1999 to 2025 and ranking the state 28th of 50 by units shipped.

Read the record in three passes before you compare models:

1. Start with the sport counts, because they show which kind of field or gym the record leans toward.
2. Move to the model counts, and check each model against its own spec sheet before you draw a conclusion.
3. Open the state page, which lists every record by city, when you want the detail behind a count.

The record breaks the state's counts out by sport. The record holds 61 baseball records against 27 for basketball, with football at 11, soccer at 8 and hockey at 5. Many buyers assume football drives scoreboard purchases. In our Rhode Island record, football sits third.

The counting rule matters. Each row is one organization, one model and one city, the same rule the published state page applies, so every figure above can be checked against that list. Our basketball scoreboards form the second group. The LX2655 spec sheet, for one, lists that model for basketball, volleyball and wrestling, while the record files each entry under a single sport.

For scale, NCES counted 316 public schools in Rhode Island in 2022, and U.S. News ranks 64 Rhode Island high schools in its 2026-2027 list. Those figures count schools. Our record counts shipments to organizations of every kind, schools and youth leagues alike. The two do not combine into a share.

That leaves you with a starting question: which sport will your new scoreboard serve first? Write that sport down before you open a spec sheet, because each model's sheet names the sports it is built for. Then note whether the scoreboard goes outdoors or indoors, since each spec sheet lists that setting beside the sports.

How do the LX1030 and LX1050 baseball scoreboards in the Rhode Island record differ?

Both are outdoor baseball and softball scoreboards: the LX1030 is an 8 ft by 4 ft cabinet with 18-inch digits, the LX1050 a 6 ft by 3 ft cabinet with 15-inch digits.

Three questions decide between them:

• How far from the scoreboard is the farthest seat?
• How tall do the captions need to be to read from that seat?
• How much cabinet area suits the spot you have chosen?

The LX1030 and LX1050 spec sheets (both Rev 2.0.2017.06.08) set out the rest of the comparison.

The caption row matters most. The LX1050 model page recommends that scoreboard only where the viewing distance will be less than 250 feet, because its captions are short, and says that for permanently installed outdoor scoreboards the LX1050 is "as small as they come." The LX1030 model page places that model between the LX1050 and LX1060 in size and calls it "just right" for little leagues and high schools.

Our sales and shipping record for the LX1030, LX1050 and LX2655 in Rhode Island holds 30 records at 29 organizations, shipped from 2003 to 2025, with baseball at 23 and basketball at 7. Each line keeps the order's own spelling of the model, for example LX1030, 1050-C, 2655, LX1030-L, 1030 and 1050-PA. An LX1030 for baseball shipped to Central High School (Providence, RI) on 2018-05-14, and a 1050-C for baseball shipped to Coventry Girls Softball (filed under Providence, RI) on 2008-06-10. Neither line says why the scoreboard was chosen.

The smaller cabinet suits a field where the seats sit close. Where seats sit farther back, the taller captions on the LX1030 are the safer pick. You can check each model's documents in the scoreboard manuals library before you ask for a quote.

What does a scoreboard have to keep up with during a Rhode Island football game?

Score, down, yards to gain and the game clock all change during a single drive, and each change has to reach the scoreboard for players and officials.

FloCollege's 2023 highlights of Stony Brook vs. Rhode Island show how quickly the numbers move. Within the first two minutes of the video, the broadcast calls a "third and six," sets up "first and goal for Rhode Island" and then has "the Rams up 20-7." Each of those moments changes what the display has to show.

Use the timestamps to find each play:

• 0:00 Darius Savage's diving touchdown catch, Jaden Griffin's first career touchdown and a breakaway run that sets up first and goal.
• 1:44 Marquis Buchanan's touchdown, then Jordan Colbert's scoop and score.
• 3:21 Stony Brook answers with a first-down run and a touchdown pass.

Indoors the pace differs, but the job does not. The LX2655 spec sheet lists Bonus and Possession indicators along with the Guest and Home points and the Period Clock.

Does a sales and shipping record show which scoreboards are still standing and in use?

No. Each line is a scoreboard sold and shipped to a Rhode Island address, and the record does not say whether it was installed or is still in use.

Read each line for three facts:

• The organization, with the city and state the order shipped to.
• The model, as the record spells it, and the sport.
• The ship date.

Our sales and shipping record is silent on everything after shipment. It does not say why a scoreboard was bought, what it replaced, what it cost, or whether it ever went up. A scoreboard can sit in storage for months or years after it ships, and the record would look the same either way.

Central High School and Coventry Girls Softball show the limit. Each of their lines gives a model, a sport and a ship date, and nothing about the field that scoreboard serves today. Coventry Girls Softball is also not a school, a reminder that the buyers in the record are organizations of every kind.

That mix matters when you set the record beside school counts. NCES counted 110 private schools in Rhode Island in 2021, alongside its public school figures, yet no shipping record can be matched against either list to show which schools have a working scoreboard. The record and the school census answer different questions.

What the record does show is which models Rhode Island organizations ordered, for which sport, and when. Treat it as a list of orders, not a census of scoreboards. To learn what stands at a field today, ask the organization that runs it. If your own field hosts football rather than baseball, compare the current models on the high school football scoreboards page instead of reading an old order line as a guide.

Write your field down in a few plain lines before you request a quote. One short record keeps the model and the site facts together.

Sport:          baseball / softball
Model:          ______  (base or -ETN, where offered)
Farthest seat:  ______ ft, measured on site
Mounting:       two steel posts, concrete footings
Control:        ScoreLink Wireless RF or hardwired
Power:          amperage from that model's own spec sheet
Pitch counts:   who tracks them under the state association policy

Line 6 matters most. Base and -ETN versions draw different current. Leave the distance blank until someone measures it.

Which indoor scoreboard fits a gym used for basketball, volleyball and wrestling?

The LX2655 fits that gym: a 9 ft by 5 ft basketball scoreboard with removable caption plates along the bottom that relabel the lower half for volleyball or wrestling.

Settle three points before you choose:

• Will the gym host volleyball or wrestling as well as basketball?
• Will the scoreboard hang on a wall, or over center court?
• Do you want team names on the display, which the -ETN versions add?

The LX2655 spec sheet and the LX2655-ETN cutsheet put a full-sized 37-key control console with LCD display and fifty programmable brightness levels in the standard package, with a junction box and patch cable for hardwired installations. The model page calls the LX2655 "our most popular model for Basketball" and offers it in a center-hung, four-sided configuration.

The LX2350 is the narrower choice. Its model page says it covers "the basics needed to keep up with almost any sport," yet its built-in Bonus and Possession indicators show it is made for basketball. The reversible volleyball and wrestling captions belong to the LX2655 sheet. The LX2350 page points instead to an uncluttered layout that takes sponsor ID panels without looking jumbled.

The current high school rule makes those indicators matter. 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 one-and-one is gone.

Your scorer's table now restarts team fouls every quarter. A visible Bonus indicator keeps players and officials on the same count. For a gym that hosts all three sports, start with the LX2655. For a basketball-first gym that sells ID panel space, the LX2350 is the lighter cabinet.

How do you size, mount and wire an outdoor baseball scoreboard for a school or league field?

Size the scoreboard to the farthest seat; for an LX1030, set two steel posts in reinforced concrete footings and run a dedicated 120 VAC circuit with a weatherproof disconnect.

1. Measure from the planned scoreboard spot to the farthest seat.
2. Size posts and footings for wind load and the cabinet's surface area.
3. Plan power and control as two separate runs.

Electro-Mech recommends 25 feet of viewing distance per inch of digit height, tighter than the 50 feet per inch of lighted character height the sign industry allows, because a scoreboard also carries captions that must be read. Larger digits always cost more. The costlier mistake is a scoreboard too small for the field.

The short-caption LX1050 suits only close fields. At the other end, the LX1060 spec sheet puts that model at 10 ft x 5 ft and 160 lb, with 18-inch digits, 7 in captions and 4 in indicators, drawing 1.1 A (LX1060-ETN 2.4 A). Its model page traces the layout to the electro-mechanical scoreboards of the 1960s and calls the single cabinet "easy to install."

If you are the contractor, our LX1030 owner handbook sets the mounting. Use two posts, steel pipe or I-beam, up to 4.5 inches outer diameter, sunk in reinforced concrete footings. The cabinet attaches at four mounting points on the rear, with clamp assemblies, two per post. Angle the face away from the afternoon sun to reduce glare, and check local building codes before you pour.

For power, the handbook calls for a weatherproof disconnect at the scoreboard, power cable in conduit from the source, and a grounded NEMA 5-15R receptacle for the console at the scorekeeper's table, with all work to the NEC and local codes. Control is a separate matter. Most customers choose ScoreLink Wireless RF. A hardwired install uses up to 1,000 feet of shielded 2-conductor cable with a drain line, burial jacket laid directly in a trench and kept apart from the power run.

Pitch counts sit outside the spec sheets. In 2016 NFHS approved Rule 6-2-6, which requires each member state association to set its own pitching restriction policy based on the number of pitches thrown. Settle with your league who tracks those counts, and raise any display question when you request a quote.

What should you settle before ordering a scoreboard for a Rhode Island field or gym?

Settle the sport, the distance to your farthest seat and who tracks pitches or fouls, then pick the model whose own spec sheet fits that venue.

Settle the caption wording as well: an option listed for the LX2655 puts your team name in place of HOME, separate from Electronic Team Names. Indoors, check the LX2655 spec sheet against every sport your gym hosts. Read each model's own sheet before you compare quotes.

Rules travel with the sport, not the scoreboard. For fields that host Little League programs, Little League publishes pitch counts by league age for those programs, with days-of-rest thresholds for each division. Decide before opening day who keeps that count at the field.

With those answers on paper, your quote request can name one model and one control plan. Guesswork drops out of the conversation, and the Electro-Mech team can price the scoreboard your venue needs.