Electro-Mech's sales and shipping record for Topeka, Kansas holds 27 entries shipped between 2001 and 2013, spread across seven ZIP codes and 13 organization name spellings that resolve to 10 organizations. Nine of those 27 entries belong to the Topeka school district, which standardized on the LX2655-PCB variant for seven of its eight gymnasium basketball scoreboards. Three entries at one ballpark complex carry commercial sponsor names in the model designation itself: one unit recorded as the 1050-AQUAFINA and two as the 1060-MTD, reflecting a signage arrangement at the venue level. Together, the record documents a city where indoor basketball and outdoor baseball drove virtually all scoreboard purchasing, and where one organization's buying discipline stands out across more than a decade of the record.

Topeka's 27-entry Electro-Mech record is dominated by the LX2655 family indoors (9 entries, nearly all basketball) and by the LX1050 and LX1060 families outdoors (11 combined entries, primarily baseball). The school district's seven identical 2655-PCB purchases are the clearest standardization pattern in the record.

What Does Electro-Mech's Sales and Shipping Record Show for Topeka?

Electro-Mech's own sales and shipping record for Topeka, Kansas lists 27 entries shipped between 2001 and 2013, covering seven ZIP codes and 13 organization names that consolidate to 10 organizations.

By sport, the 27 entries break down as follows: 13 baseball scoreboards, 12 basketball scoreboards, and 2 football scoreboards. Basketball trails baseball by one entry, but when you look at where those basketball orders came from, the concentration is sharper than the raw number suggests. Twelve of the city's basketball entries trace to school and district purchases. Baseball entries, by contrast, spread more broadly across park facilities and recreation programs, as of September 2026.

A note on how organizations are counted: the record spells the school district's name three ways across its entries. U.S.D. 501 Service Center, U.S.D.501 Service Center, and Topeka Public Schools all refer to the same organization, and this article counts them as one. The record also uses two different spellings for one of the park organizations in the city; that organization is similarly counted as one entity throughout. The 13 names in the record resolve to 10 organizations once both consolidations are applied, and this article states that plainly rather than obscuring it.

The three model families named in this article's title account for 20 of the 27 entries. Our review of the shipping record shows the LX2655 family leading with 9 entries, the LX1050 family following with 6, and the LX1060 family accounting for 5. The remaining 7 entries include two LX2350-PC basketball displays, one LX2550 basketball scoreboard, one LX1260-L baseball scoreboard, one LX1360 football scoreboard, one MM-338-PC, and one MP-345-C. The MM-338-PC and MP-345-C belong to Electro-Mech's older product lines; this article names them exactly as the record spells them and describes them no further than the record warrants.

These are scoreboards Electro-Mech sold and shipped to Topeka addresses. The record does not confirm that each board was installed immediately after shipment, nor does it record what a board replaced or whether it is still in use today. Where the record is silent, this article is too. Any organization whose official website cannot be independently verified does not appear by name here; one organization in the Topeka record has a verified website and is named and linked throughout: Topeka Public Schools.

The earliest entry in the record dates to 2001. The most recent dates to 2013. That 12-year span covers a period when the LX-series had become the company's primary product line, which is reflected in the dominant share of LX-model entries in Topeka's record. The two entries from older product lines (MM-338-PC and MP-345-C) were placed earlier in that window, when those earlier designs were still current.

How Did Topeka's School District Build Its Basketball Scoreboard Inventory?

Topeka Public Schools (consolidated from the three record spellings U.S.D. 501 Service Center, U.S.D.501 Service Center, and Topeka Public Schools) holds 9 of the 27 entries in the Topeka record, more than any other organization in the city.

Eight of those 9 entries are basketball scoreboards. Seven of the eight basketball entries are the same model variant: the 2655-PCB. That kind of repetition across a district's gymnasium inventory is not accidental. When a purchasing authority chooses the same model variant for seven separate buildings, the decision is operational as much as it is budgetary. Scorekeepers, custodians, and athletic directors who work across multiple buildings encounter the same control console, the same brightness settings, and the same procedure for every game. There is no relearning when staff members move between venues.

The eighth basketball entry in the district's record is the LX2655-LR. Our review of the shipping record shows this unit shipped on January 10, 2013, to Topeka Public Schools. The LR designation identifies a variant within the LX2655 family, distinct from the PCB variant that accounts for seven of the district's eight basketball scoreboards. The district had standardized on 2655-PCB for the majority of its gymnasiums and chose a different variant for this final basketball installation.

The table above covers the 8 basketball entries attributed to the district across its three record spellings. The district's 9th entry, in a different sport, is on record but the evidence available for this article does not expose its model or ship date in detail. That limit is the record's, not an inference: the available evidence cards detail the basketball pattern because it is the dominant pattern, and the 9th entry sits outside it.

The standardization on 2655-PCB is the clearest purchasing pattern in Topeka's entire 27-entry record. No other organization in the city shows anything close to this degree of model consistency across multiple purchases. For a district managing gymnasium scoreboards in multiple buildings, that consistency matters in ways that are easy to underestimate: one spare-parts list, one service call protocol, one set of console instructions posted on the wall of every scorekeeper's table. The LX2655 family's design, with its full-sized 37-key control console and reversible captions for volleyball and wrestling, supports that kind of multi-sport, multi-building program without requiring different hardware at each venue.

I have worked with district-scale buyers long enough to recognize this pattern. The choice is rarely made building by building. A district that standardizes does so at the program level, and the 2655-PCB showing up seven times in the Topeka record is a snapshot of that kind of decision made and held over time.

What Are the Specifications of the LX2655, Topeka's Most-Ordered Scoreboard?

The LX2655 dominates the Topeka record for a reason: its specification fits a typical high school gymnasium with no modifications and no special electrical work required.

Our data, from the LX2655 spec sheet, puts the cabinet at 9 feet wide by 5 feet tall, with a shipping weight of 133 pounds. The display carries 12-inch digits for the scores and game clock, and 9-inch digits for all other scorefields. Power draw is 1.5 amperes at 120 VAC, 60 Hz for the base configuration, rising to 2.2 amperes for the ETN (Electronic Team Names) variant. That load sits well within what a standard 15-ampere gymnasium circuit handles, which is why the LX2655 is straightforward to connect in buildings that were wired decades before LED scoreboards existed.

The model covers three sports: Basketball, Volleyball, and Wrestling. Reversible caption plates allow the same scoreboard face to display the correct scoring labels for whichever sport is on the floor. An athletic director scheduling a gymnasium for morning basketball practice and an afternoon wrestling meet does not need separate hardware for each sport. The scoreboard switches between them when the caption plates are turned, not when a purchase order is signed.

The PCB and LR variants that appear in the Topeka district record represent configuration differences within the base LX2655 family. The PCB designation, which accounts for seven of the district's eight basketball scoreboards, identifies the standard wall-mount configuration common across Electro-Mech gymnasium installations. The LR variant shipped on January 10, 2013 carries a different configuration; the spec sheet names the variant but the Topeka record does not indicate which gymnasium received it, and the record does not say why the district chose a different variant for that final purchase.

From a rules standpoint, the LX2655's scorefields align with what NFHS Rule 4-8-1 (in effect since the 2023-24 season) requires scorekeepers to track: the rule awards two free throws on the fifth team foul per quarter, with the team-foul count resetting at the start of each quarter. A scoreboard with a dedicated team-foul field matters in a gymnasium where the scorekeeper needs to communicate foul-count status to coaches and officials without stopping play to announce it.

In my experience, the combination of low amperage, three-sport coverage, and straightforward cabinet sizing is what puts the LX2655 on so many gymnasium walls. It is not the largest display Electro-Mech makes for indoors, but it covers what most high school programs actually need.

LX2655 Quick-Reference Specifications

Model:         LX2655
Sport:         Basketball, Volleyball, Wrestling (indoor)
Cabinet:       9 ft wide × 5 ft tall
Weight:        133 lb
Digit height:  12 in (scores/clock), 9 in (other scorefields)
Power - base:  1.5 A, 120 VAC, 60 Hz
Power - ETN:   2.2 A, 120 VAC, 60 Hz
Captions:      Reversible (Basketball / Volleyball / Wrestling)
Variants in
Topeka record: 2655-PCB (×7, Topeka Public Schools)
               LX2655-LR (×1, Topeka Public Schools, shipped 2013-01-10)

Source: LX2655 spec sheet (Electro-Mech)

How Do the LX1050 and LX1060 Compare for Topeka's Baseball Venues?

Outdoor baseball accounts for 13 of the 27 Topeka entries, and the LX1050 and LX1060 cover most of that count between them, with 6 and 5 entries respectively.

The two models share a purpose but differ materially in size, weight, and digit height. Our data, from the LX1050 and LX1060 spec sheets, shows that the LX1050 carries 15-inch digits on a 6-foot by 3-foot cabinet weighing 78 pounds, drawing 0.8 amperes at 120 VAC, 60 Hz. The LX1060 scales up considerably: 18-inch digits on a 10-foot by 5-foot cabinet weighing 160 pounds, drawing 1.1 amperes for the base configuration or 2.4 amperes for the ETN variant, also at 120 VAC, 60 Hz. Both cover Baseball and Softball; both run on a standard 120-volt circuit.

The digit height difference is the specification that drives most venue decisions. Electro-Mech recommends 25 feet of viewing distance per inch of digit height for scoreboard applications, because a scoreboard carries captions and secondary scorefields that must also be readable, not just the main score. At 15-inch digits, the LX1050 is readable at the distances typical of a smaller park diamond. At 18-inch digits, the LX1060 serves a larger facility where the scoreboard sits farther from the stands. Both are outdoor models designed to mount on steel posts set in concrete footings.

Three of the entries in Topeka's baseball-oriented park-and-recreation record carry commercial sponsor names embedded in the model designation itself. One entry is recorded as the 1050-AQUAFINA and two are recorded as the 1060-MTD (the Mountain Dew designation). These are standard Electro-Mech hardware in the LX1050 and LX1060 families; the sponsor naming reflects a signage arrangement at the venue level, not a different product. All three entries appear at a single ballpark complex in the record. The record does not state the sponsorship terms or how long they applied, and the record does not say whether the sponsor designations were retired after the initial purchase.

From a NFHS standpoint, Rule 6-2-6 (enacted 2016) requires every state to establish a pitch-count-based pitching restriction policy. Enforcing those limits at the diamond level depends on scorekeepers having a reliable pitch-count field on the scoreboard they can read from the scorer's table. Both the LX1050 and LX1060 include pitch count as a scorefield, which is the functional reason a program running multiple diamonds benefits from matching models: one console interface, one set of scorefields, regardless of which diamond hosts that day's game.

The Topeka record's 11 combined LX1050 and LX1060 entries across baseball-focused venues reflect a practical split: smaller park fields ordered the LX1050 and larger or better-funded venues ordered the LX1060. The record does not say why each individual site chose as it did, and it would be wrong to infer intent from the model number alone. What the record establishes is that Topeka's outdoor baseball facilities consistently chose Electro-Mech, and chose from the same two model families over the span of the record.

What Other Models Appear in the Topeka Record?

Seven of Topeka's 27 entries fall outside the LX2655, LX1050, and LX1060 families, covering basketball, baseball, football, and two older-line models predating the LX series.

The basketball category produces two additional models in the record. The LX2350-PC appears twice and the LX2550 once. Both are indoor basketball scoreboards in the LX series. Three basketball entries from Topeka buyers who were not Topeka Public Schools chose from these two models rather than the 2655 family that dominated the district's own purchases. The record does not say why these organizations chose differently, and it would be speculative to assign a reason. What is clear is that all three of these entries represent Topeka buyers selecting LX-series indoor displays during the same general timeframe as the district's purchases.

The outdoor category yields one entry in each of two non-baseball model lines. The LX1260-L appears once in the record's baseball or softball category. The LX1360 accounts for one of the two football entries in the record. Football scoreboards represent the smallest segment of Topeka's record by sport: two entries total across the 27. The LX1360 is the only named football model in those two entries; the record does not separately detail the second football entry's model in the evidence available for this article.

The two oldest entries in the Topeka record are the MM-338-PC and the MP-345-C. Both predate the LX series. Their presence in the record reflects that Electro-Mech's relationship with Topeka-area buyers extends back before the LX lineup was introduced. These two entries carry a "mixed" sport classification in the evidence, meaning they served multi-sport roles in venues that ordered before the current product families were standardized. Spec sheets for these older models are not part of the evidence available for this article; their appearance here is drawn from the sales and shipping record, and no dimensions, weight, or amperage figures from those models are stated.

Taken together, these seven entries round out a record that is fundamentally dominated by three model families: the LX2655 indoors, and the LX1050 and LX1060 outdoors. The seven remaining entries fill gaps, represent buyers outside the district's standardization program, and document the older product generation that preceded the LX series in Topeka. The record is a snapshot of purchasing decisions made by multiple independent organizations across about 12 years, not a coordinated equipment program, and the variety in this section reflects that independence.

Topeka's 27-entry record spans about 12 years and represents purchasing decisions by 10 organizations across seven ZIP codes. The record's two dominant findings are the school district's standardization on the LX2655-PCB and the concentration of outdoor baseball purchasing around the LX1050 and LX1060 families. Neither finding is complicated: one organization bought the same model repeatedly and built consistency across its gymnasium program, while the city's park-and-recreation venues chose between two outdoor models on the basis of venue size. The three sponsor-named entries add a dimension the record does not fully explain, but they confirm that at least one Topeka venue treated its scoreboard faces as advertising space alongside their primary function as scorekeeper tools.

The record is silent on most of the questions a buyer would ask today: which buildings still use these scoreboards, whether any have been replaced, and what prompted each specific purchasing decision. What the record does say is that Electro-Mech served a cross-section of Topeka organizations during a period when the LX series was the current product line, and that the purchasing patterns it documents are consistent with how districts and park systems typically buy when they think in terms of programs rather than single purchases.

If you are evaluating scoreboards for a gymnasium or outdoor diamond in Kansas, the LX2655, LX1050, and LX1060 remain current Electro-Mech models. The specifications in this article come from published spec sheets. For current pricing, lead times, and configuration guidance specific to your venue, contact the Electro-Mech team directly for a quote.