Electro-Mech is a family-owned scoreboard manufacturer based in Wrightsville, Georgia, and Florida is the state where its market concentration is most visible. More Electro-Mech boards serve Florida programs than those of almost any other state - a fact documented in our proprietary installation records, not in any outside ranking or trade publication.

That record is useful to buyers in a way that a general product catalog is not. It shows what Florida programs actually selected, by model and by sport, across hundreds of cities and towns. Baseball leads by a wide margin. The 2655-PC is the single most-installed model in the state. The LX-series - which is ETL listed to UL Standard 48 - is where current purchasing activity concentrates.

I have spent about 15 years helping schools, colleges, and recreation departments choose scoreboards. The data below comes directly from Electro-Mech's own records, with a snapshot date of May 26, 2026. Where the data speaks clearly, I let it. Where it raises a practical question for a Florida buyer, I address that directly.

How Large Is Electro-Mech's Florida Installed Base?

Florida holds 2,536 Electro-Mech scoreboards spread across 372 cities and towns - the second-largest installed base of any state in the country.

That figure comes from our installation records as of May 26, 2026. Out of a nationwide total of 24,451 Electro-Mech scoreboards, Florida alone accounts for roughly 10.4 percent of every unit in the field. To put that in practical terms: a comparison of every state's recorded count shows Florida trailing only one other state, and far ahead of the national median. North Dakota, for example, has 9 boards across 5 cities. Florida has more than 280 times that volume, spread across a state with an athletic calendar that runs nearly the full calendar year, as of August 2026.

A look at the sport breakdown tells you immediately why the model distribution looks the way it does:

• Baseball: 1,681 installations
• Football: 531 installations
• Basketball: 226 installations
• Track: 5 installations

Baseball accounts for 66.3 percent of Florida's total - more than football and basketball combined, by a wide margin. That distribution is the single most important context for understanding which models Florida schools actually buy. A state that skews this heavily toward baseball will naturally concentrate its purchasing on baseball-configured scoreboards, and that is exactly what the top-model data shows.

The geographic spread across 372 cities matters too. Florida is not a one-city market. From Pensacola in the northwest to Key West at the southern tip, installations appear in small communities, mid-size cities, and major metro areas alike. I'd point that out to any athletic director assuming that a scoreboard company with roots in Wrightsville, Georgia would have lighter coverage in South Florida - in my experience, the penetration is consistent statewide.

446 distinct models appear in Florida's records. That number reflects decades of purchasing decisions by schools at every level - community recreation programs, middle schools, high schools, and colleges - each choosing based on sport, budget, and venue size. The catalog-wide breadth is real. Electro-Mech has manufactured scoreboards since 1963 and builds over 180 active models across all sports, with about 1,500 units going to customers per year.

The practical implication for a Florida buyer: the market is large enough and old enough that almost any common configuration has been installed nearby. You can review the full city-by-city list of Florida installations at our scoreboards USA installations page, which is updated periodically as new records are added.

Which Electro-Mech Models Do Florida Schools Install Most Often?

Five models account for 396 of Florida's 2,536 recorded installations - nearly 16 percent of the entire state total concentrated in a handful of baseball scoreboard families.

Our installation records identify the top five models in the state by count:

The pattern here is unmistakable. Two model families - the 2655 line and the 2350 line - completely dominate Florida's top five. The 2655 family (2655-PC, LX2655, and the base 2655) accounts for 254 combined installations. Add the 2350 and LX2350, and those two families together reach 396 installs. In practice, if a Florida school has a baseball scoreboard, there is a strong probability it belongs to one of these two product lines.

The mix of older and newer models in the top five is instructive. The 2655-PC leads the list despite being from an earlier generation. That tells me Florida schools have been loyal to these product families for a long time - and many of those older boards are still in the field. The LX2655 and LX2350 represent the current iteration of the same families. Both are part of the LX-series, which is ETL listed to UL Standard 48. The older 2655-PC, 2655, and 2350 predate the LX-series designation.

What does the LX prefix actually change? The current LX-series reflects Electro-Mech's LED manufacturing standards and carries ETL listing documentation referencing UL Standard 48, which is the standard for electric signs. For schools evaluating a replacement purchase, the takeaway is straightforward: the LX2655 or LX2350 are the current production equivalents of the models that have dominated Florida for decades. The installed base of older units is essentially a map of future replacement demand.

Beyond the top five, Florida's 446 distinct recorded models reflect 60-plus years of purchasing across a very large market. However, concentration matters. A buyer asking what Florida schools have proven comfortable with over a long period gets a direct answer: the 2655 and 2350 product families, in both their older and current LX-series forms, lead by a significant margin.

How Can Florida Athletic Directors Use the State's Installed Base Before Buying?

Florida programs shopping for a scoreboard have a practical advantage: enough peer programs running the same models that a reference call or site visit is genuinely easy to arrange.

In my experience, the most useful step a buyer can take before placing an order is contacting a program that already owns the model they are considering. Florida's geographic breadth - programs spread from Pensacola to Miami, from Gainesville to Jacksonville - means the odds of finding a peer reference site within a reasonable drive are high. That is not a luxury available when buying in a state with a much thinner installed base.

The top five Florida models all belong to the 2350 and 2655 families, which means reference programs are not concentrated in one corner of the state. Schools on the Gulf Coast and programs on the Atlantic side have put the same core models on their fields, and that consistency reflects how those boards perform across different facility types and program sizes. The LX2655 and LX2350 are the current-generation successors to those same families, so a buyer who visits a pre-LX program will see essentially the same physical form factor and understand what the current-generation LX board looks like in long-term service.

In states where Electro-Mech has a much smaller footprint - a handful of boards spread across only a few cities - in-state peer references are simply not available. A Florida buyer rarely faces that limitation. I would encourage any program still in the research phase to reach out directly to the Electro-Mech team, who can connect them with peer programs already running the model they are considering.

Why Is State-Level Scoreboard Installation Data So Hard to Find?

No third-party source publishes model-level installation counts for Florida schools. The manufacturer's own records are the only usable primary source for this question.

When an athletic director searches for "which scoreboard models do Florida schools install," what surfaces - if anything useful surfaces at all - tends to be generic product pages, category listings organized by sport, or opinion-based "best of" roundups that are not tied to any real purchasing data. None of those sources can answer the specific question: of all the Electro-Mech boards currently in the field across Florida's 372 cities, which configurations did schools actually choose?

The gap exists for a practical reason. School sports infrastructure doesn't have the kind of standardized procurement reporting that, say, vehicle registrations or building permits have. A school buys a scoreboard, it goes up, and there is no public database tracking the transaction by model number and location. The only entity that holds that record is the manufacturer. In our case, that record reflects every unit shipped and tracked over decades of Florida sales.

I'd argue that is actually the more reliable starting point anyway. Generic "best of" lists reflect marketing claims and editorial choices. Installation records reflect what buyers chose when they spent real budget on real venues. Those are different things, and the installation record is the one that tells you what has actually proven acceptable to athletic directors over a long period.

The practical result for a Florida buyer is this: the question "what do Florida schools install?" can only be answered from primary data, and Electro-Mech's installation records represent precisely that. The 2655-PC, LX2655, 2350, 2655, and LX2350 lead the state's installed base not because of marketing placement but because Florida schools have chosen those models, repeatedly, across decades. That pattern carries more information than any curated list.

The corollary is equally useful: if you are evaluating a scoreboard for a Florida venue, you are not starting from scratch. You are entering a market with an established, documented track record. Other schools in your city or county have almost certainly navigated the same decision - and our city-by-city installation page shows exactly what they chose.

Source: Electro-Mech installation records, snapshot May 26, 2026. Nationwide total: 24,451 boards.

How Does Florida's Scale Compare to States at the Other End of Electro-Mech's National Footprint?

North Dakota carries 9 Electro-Mech scoreboards across 5 cities - the smallest state footprint in our installation records, and the clearest possible benchmark for understanding what Florida's total actually represents.

That contrast is not a criticism of North Dakota. It reflects population, the number of schools, climate, and sport culture. What it does is give Florida buyers a useful frame of reference. A market this large accumulates practical advantages that a buyer in a thin market simply does not have access to.

First, model familiarity. When a state has hundreds of sites running similar equipment, athletic directors can call a peer at the next school over and ask how a board has performed over five or ten years. In Florida, that peer-reference network exists at scale. A coach in Gainesville shopping for a baseball scoreboard can find at least a dozen nearby programs that installed a 2655-family board years ago and are still using it. That lived experience is worth more than any spec sheet comparison.

Second, installation knowledge. Our data shows approximately 1,500 Electro-Mech boards reach customers each year nationwide. Florida accounts for a meaningful portion of that volume. Contractors and facility crews in the state have handled this equipment repeatedly - the clamp-assembly mounting on steel posts set in concrete footings, the shielded two-conductor burial-jacket cable run in a trench separate from power, the single-day install sequence. A school in a high-volume state like Florida is much less likely to be working with a crew encountering Electro-Mech hardware for the first time.

Third, comparison shopping is easier when local installations exist to study. Florida's sport mix - baseball dominant, with 531 football boards and 226 basketball boards in the installed base - means buyers can usually find a comparable venue nearby before committing. Visiting a school that installed the same model two or three years ago is more informative than a product page. In practice, I recommend that Florida buyers take advantage of this. Ask which schools in your county or district have boards from the same family you are considering, then go look at them.

The takeaway is simple. Scale does not make a scoreboard better. What it does do is surround a Florida buyer with decision-support that buyers in smaller markets have to work harder to find. The installed base is a research tool; the models listed above are where to start using it.

What Should High School Athletic Directors Know When Choosing an Outdoor Football Scoreboard?

Florida's football installations concentrate in the LX-series, and for a concrete reason: LX-series boards are ETL listed to UL Standard 48, which is the certification most school districts and facilities managers ask to see before approving a capital equipment purchase.

That certification matters beyond paperwork. It means the cabinet, wiring, and LED assembly have been independently tested against a published safety standard. For an athletic director presenting a purchase to a school board or a facilities committee, having a listed unit on the quote sheet removes a question that would otherwise have to be answered manually.

On sizing, the rule I use is 25 feet of viewing distance per inch of digit height - a tighter standard than the sign industry's 50-foot allowance, because a scoreboard also carries captions and period indicators that must be readable from the stands. The minimum outdoor digit height Electro-Mech offers is 11 inches, and in most high school stadium configurations that minimum qualifies only for the nearest rows. Buyers should measure the farthest seat distance before selecting digit height, not after.

On control, approximately 4 of 5 Electro-Mech customers today choose ScoreLink RF wireless over a hardwired cable run. The wireless option means the console operates from anywhere in the press box or on the sideline, and the installation does not require a shielded two-conductor cable trench from the console to the sign cabinet. Either approach works; the choice usually comes down to how the facility is already laid out.

For smaller programs and recreation departments searching for affordable options, the 2350 family - both the pre-LX 2350 and the current LX2350 - shows up repeatedly in Florida's records precisely because it addresses smaller venues where the budget matters as much as the feature set. The LX2350 inherits the ETL listing that the pre-LX 2350 did not carry. That difference is worth asking about when comparing an older installed unit to a new quote.

For indoor multi-sport programs, the buying criteria shift. Gym scoreboards do not face weather exposure, so the ETL listing and outdoor cabinet specs are less central. What matters more is ceiling clearance, mounting hardware compatibility with the specific wall or structure, and whether the board's sport-mode configuration covers the combinations the facility actually schedules. Florida's basketball installations reflect this - indoor programs select on feature set, not on weather durability.

On longevity, Electro-Mech's LED arrays are rated at 100,000 hours, and the company backs each board with a five-year limited warranty. In practice, the LEDs outlast the console. A console replacement is a straightforward transaction that does not require replacing the display cabinet.

Florida's installed base is a starting point, not a prescription. The fact that the 2655 family dominates the state's baseball installations tells you what other programs have trusted over time - it does not mean the same model is right for your field. Your venue dimensions, your farthest seat, your sport mix, and your budget all factor in.

What the data does reliably is narrow the field. Programs in Florida looking for a current-generation baseball board should compare within the LX2655 family. Programs looking for a football board should understand the ETL listing distinction between LX-series and pre-LX models. Either path leads to a quote from our team, which is the right next step. Typical lead time runs four to six weeks, sometimes longer - planning ahead matters.

If I can help with the comparison or answer questions about your specific situation in Florida, contact Electro-Mech directly. That is what the team is there for.