The LX3680 is an Electro-Mech football scoreboard model that ranks third in Alabama and fifth in Tennessee among all Electro-Mech models by installation count - two state rankings that point to consistent re-selection across more than a decade of shipments. Georgia leads the overall LX3680 record by a significant margin, and the Southeast as a whole accounts for the large majority of documented installations between 2011 and 2024. Those numbers come directly from Electro-Mech's own sales and shipping records, and reading them correctly means knowing which city counts reflect genuine local demand and which reflect dealer shipping addresses.

This article works from two primary sources: the LX3680 sales and shipping record and the LX3680 owner's manual. The sales and shipping record gives organization name, model, sport code, ship date, and shipping city - and what it does not contain is as important as what it does. The owner's manual adds the mounting specification: post spacing, clamp assembly sequence, footing requirements, and control cable options. I look at both below, including a close read of where the record requires a careful interpreter rather than a surface count.

What Do the Sales and Shipping Records Actually Show for the LX3680?

Our sales and shipping records list 251 LX3680 scoreboards shipped to 243 organizations in 25 states between 2011 and 2024 - and every row carries the sport code "football."

I want to be precise about what that means, because the two sources this article draws from - sales and shipping records and the LX3680 owner's manual - are distinct and must not be mixed. The record counts tell you how many organizations bought the scoreboard, in which states, and when. The manual tells you how the scoreboard is installed and what it does. Neither source tells you what the other tells you. When I reference a figure below, I'll say which source it comes from.

Starting with the records: Electro-Mech has kept electronic records of scoreboard sales since 1993. The LX3680 first appears in those records in 2011, which means the record for this model covers roughly 13 years. A comparison of the LX3680 record against the broader Electro-Mech file shows it as a model that arrived well into the LED era and built its record of scoreboards shipped steadily.

Here is the structure of what a record row actually contains. Each entry holds an organization name, a model number, a sport code, and a ship date. That is the complete set. The record does not say why the scoreboard was purchased, what it replaced, what it cost, or what field or facility it went to. Where the records are silent, I will say the records are silent - not because I am withholding anything, but because that is genuinely all the record contains.

The sport code matters for another reason. On every LX3680 row, the sport code is "football." A sport code is an order-line label - it records how the order was filed, not what the manufacturer says the product is. If you want to know what the LX3680 actually displays and what it does during a game, that information comes from the product's own specification documents, not from the sport code in an order record. I will address the manual separately later in this article.

One more point worth understanding: a city in these records is a shipping address, not necessarily where the scoreboard now stands. Electro-Mech ships to the address on the order. In several cases, that address belongs to a dealer or distributor serving a wide region. When a large share of a city's rows sit on a single ZIP code - especially a ZIP associated with a commercial or industrial address - that is a signal of a dealer address rather than a local record of scoreboards shipped. The LX3680 record has three such cities, and I will name them specifically in the section on city-level data.

Which States Have the Most LX3680 Installations?

Georgia leads with 61 LX3680 scoreboards on record, followed by Tennessee at 45 and Alabama at 39. Those three states together carry more than half of the model's entire recorded shipment history.

I'll break the full picture down in the table below. The counts come directly from our sales and shipping records for LX3680 scoreboards shipped through 2024. States with smaller counts appear in our records but not individually here - the model's footprint runs across a wider group of states that includes both meaningful clusters and single placements.

Two kinds of meaning come out of these numbers. The first is simple: states with higher counts ordered the LX3680 more often. The second is comparative, and this is where I find it more useful to contextualize what the record shows. Within our installation data for each state, the LX3680 ranks as the third most-installed Electro-Mech model in Alabama and the fifth most-installed model in Tennessee. That relative position places the LX3680 in the mid-to-upper tier of activity in both states - not a niche order, and not the single most popular choice either.

Georgia's lead reflects Electro-Mech's home-state concentration. Electro-Mech is headquartered in Wrightsville, Georgia, and Georgia organizations consistently account for the highest order volumes across the full catalog. The LX3680 follows that pattern. The Tennessee and Alabama counts are a different story. Both states show independent demand that proximity to Wrightsville does not explain. From what I have seen in conversations with schools and recreation departments in those states, buyers frequently compare the LX3680 to smaller models before settling on this one.

North Dakota illustrates the outer edge of the model's geographic range. One scoreboard on record in a state is not broad adoption. It confirms the model reached that market at least once. For buyers outside the Southeast asking whether the LX3680 is a reasonable choice in their region, the answer is yes - but they should expect a smaller local peer group to reference than a school in Georgia or Tennessee would have.

In practice, the Southeast concentration also means most of the organizations named in the record belong to a football culture where large-format outdoor scoreboards are established purchases rather than unusual ones. That context is worth carrying into the next sections, which look at which cities appear most often and which specific organizations are on record.

Which Cities Appear Most in the LX3680 Record - and Which Are Dealer Addresses?

Chattanooga, Tennessee leads the non-dealer city list with 10 LX3680 scoreboards on record; Corbin, Kentucky follows at 6 and Mobile, Alabama at 5. Three other high-count cities are dealer shipping addresses.

The distinction matters here more than in the state-level data. When a high share of a city's rows land on a single ZIP code, that ZIP almost certainly belongs to a scoreboard dealer or distributor rather than to a cluster of local organizations. Our records capture the shipping address, and a dealer who receives scoreboards for later redistribution will accumulate rows at their own address regardless of where each scoreboard ultimately goes.

Three cities in the LX3680 record carry that pattern clearly:

• Albertville, Alabama - 19 rows on record, with 98 percent concentrated on ZIP code 35950. This is a dealer shipping address. The 19 rows do not represent 19 organizations with scoreboards in the Albertville area.
• Springhill, Florida - 4 rows on record, 100 percent on a single ZIP code. Dealer shipping address.
• Gainesville, Georgia - 4 rows on record, 84 percent on a single ZIP code. Concentration at this level points to a likely dealer address, though the record does not confirm the final destination of those scoreboards.

Setting those three aside, the city picture for genuine local install bases is:

Chattanooga's count of 10 is the highest for any non-dealer city in the LX3680 record. I'd read that as an active regional market - but still, the record carries a shipping city, and a scoreboard shipped to a Chattanooga address may have been installed anywhere in the surrounding metropolitan area. The count tells you the market was real. It does not tell you exactly where each scoreboard stands today.

Corbin, Kentucky at 6 is a result that stands out. Corbin is a small city in southeastern Kentucky, and a count of 6 in a 25-state record suggests a specific regional network or buying relationship was active there. The record does not name those organizations; that data belongs in the individual-organization section below.

In practice, city-level data serves two purposes for a buyer: it shows which markets have established LX3680 presence, and it flags where reported counts overstate local density because of dealer address aggregation. Treating both categories with the same weight leads to wrong conclusions about demand geography.

Each entry in the LX3680 sales and shipping record carries exactly four fields. This is the complete data Electro-Mech retains per row, shown here for a specific entry from the record:

Organization : Denmark High School
Model        : LX3680
Sport Code   : Football
Ship Date    : 2017-09-05

The record contains no installation address, no facility name, and no contact data beyond the organization name. Ship date and shipping city are the two geographic signals that the state and city sections of this article draw from - and both have limits that the earlier sections explain.

What Does the LX3680 Owner's Manual Say About Mounting?

The LX3680 owner's manual specifies posts set 12 feet apart center-to-center, with clamp assemblies installed after the concrete in each footing has set.

That single measurement - 12 feet on center - is the most specific dimensional figure the manual provides for the LX3680 mounting configuration. The mounting method uses two steel posts set into concrete footings, with two clamp assemblies per post securing the cabinet after the concrete cures. The upper cabinet goes on first, then the lower section. Posts are held plumb with temporary framing while the concrete sets.

The LX3680 manual does not specify digit heights, cabinet dimensions, or amperage ratings. Those figures live in the model's spec sheet, which is a separate document. Anyone planning an LX3680 installation should work from the spec sheet alongside the manual, not from either document in isolation.

Foundation sizing is determined by wind load and the cabinet's surface area, not by the scoreboard's weight. A building permit is often not required for a scoreboard installation of this type. Electro-Mech facilitates working with a licensed Professional Engineer when a stamped drawing is needed - in practice, PE involvement occurs in fewer than 100 of the roughly 1,200 scoreboards Electro-Mech sells each year.

The LX3680 belongs to the LX-series; Electro-Mech products are ETL listed to UL Standard 48. That certification covers the display cabinet. The control system is separate. About four of five Electro-Mech customers today choose the ScoreLink RF wireless console over a wired connection. The wired alternative uses a shielded 2-conductor cable with a drain line - a burial-jacket cable laid directly in a trench, kept in a separate trench from the power supply, with a rated run of up to 1,000 feet. The underground run does not use conduit.

In practice, the person handling installation will find the LX3680 manual most useful for the post spacing and clamp sequence, and will need the spec sheet for electrical and dimensional data. In my experience, the organizations that plan the most straightforward installations are those who request both documents from Electro-Mech before work begins and share them with their installation crew at the outset.

What Does the LX3680's Individual Organization Record Tell Buyers?

Among the 243 organizations in the LX3680 record, most appear exactly once, with a single scoreboard and a single ship date. A smaller group ordered multiple scoreboards in one transaction or purchased from Electro-Mech at separate times.

The single-transaction multi-scoreboard pattern is worth understanding because it appears across multiple organizations in the LX3680 record. Denmark High School placed an order on 2017-09-05 that included one LX3680 and four other Electro-Mech scoreboards in the same transaction - one organization, one order date, five scoreboards. The record does not specify which facility or program each scoreboard went to; that information is not in the data Electro-Mech retains in its electronic records.

The other pattern worth naming is organizations that appear across more than one ship date. Metter High School appears in Electro-Mech's scoreboard record with separate purchases in 2006, 2019, and 2023. Each entry is its own row in the record with its own model number and ship date. The record does not characterize the relationship between those orders - it carries dates and models, not reasons.

For anyone trying to assess whether the LX3680 serves programs comparable to theirs, these two patterns carry practical meaning:

• Multi-scoreboard single orders suggest programs with more than one playing surface buying equipment all at once - a capital-project approach rather than a single-scoreboard purchase.
• Multi-date organizations appear across the record for this model, indicating that some programs return to Electro-Mech when scoreboard needs arise rather than switching suppliers between purchases.

Both patterns appear across the Southeast states that lead the LX3680 record. They are not confined to large programs. The record includes recreation departments, school districts, and smaller private organizations alongside established high school and college programs.

A related point: the record covers 243 organizations, but the 251 scoreboards on record mean some organizations received more than one LX3680 in their history. The Denmark High School example illustrates the multi-scoreboard-single-order version of that pattern. Whether an organization bought scoreboards at the same time or at separate dates, the record treats each row independently - there is no hierarchy between entries, and I would not read significance into the ordering of rows within a single organization's history.

In practice, an organization evaluating the LX3680 today is looking at a product with a 13-year shipping history, a 25-state record of scoreboards shipped, and a buyer mix that ranges from single-school programs to multi-surface capital projects. The record does not tell you which profile best fits your program - that conversation belongs with Electro-Mech's sales team, who can speak to what organizations similar to yours have ordered.

The sales and shipping record and the LX3680 owner's manual together form a reliable factual baseline for anyone specifying this scoreboard. The record does not capture facility name, cost, or the reasoning behind each purchase, and the manual covers mounting rather than electrical specifications. What they do cover, taken together, is a verified picture of where the scoreboard has shipped and what it takes to install it properly.

The state rankings in that data are worth taking seriously. Programs in Georgia, Tennessee, and Alabama have re-selected the LX3680 repeatedly - that is a different signal than a one-time purchase by a single organization. From what I have seen working with schools, recreation departments, and sports organizations across the Southeast, that kind of repeat selection reflects a scoreboard that performs reliably in field conditions rather than one that gets replaced quickly. If you are early in a football scoreboard conversation, the Electro-Mech sales team can walk through current spec sheets and build a quote around your specific facility.