LED Wall Size & Panel Calculator

A true 16:9 wall needs a column-to-row count that reduces to 16:9, so the smallest exact one is 16 × 9 cells — 8.0 m wide by 4.5 m high, 36 m². Hung the way the cabinet is built (upright, 500 mm wide and 1000 mm tall) that is 64 × 1000 × 500 plus 16 × 500 × 500: nine rows is an odd number, so every one of the sixteen columns finishes with a half panel. Anything smaller is an approximation — 7 × 4 cells (3.5 × 2.0 m) is 1.6 % narrow and takes 14 upright 1 m panels with no half panels at all, and 9 × 5 cells (4.5 × 2.5 m) is 1.25 % wide and takes 18 upright 1 m panels plus 9 half panels. Both look like 16:9 on site once content is filled rather than fitted.

Resolution is the cell count multiplied by the pixels across one 500 mm cabinet, which is set by the pixel pitch. Our panels are P2.604, so a 500 mm cell is 192 × 192 px: an 8.0 × 4.5 m wall (16 × 9 cells) is 3072 × 1728 px — 5.3 megapixels, comfortably inside a 4K canvas — and a 4.5 × 2.5 m wall (9 × 5 cells) is 1728 × 960 px, which fits a 1080p canvas with room to spare. Because the pitch is square, the picture ends up exactly the same shape as the wall, so you can build content to the wall size and scale it.

They are P2.604 — 2.6 mm between pixels, 192 × 192 px across a 500 mm cell. Pitch is worth understanding because it sets how close a viewer can stand before they see the pixel structure instead of the picture: as a planning rule the image is pixel-perfect from about 3.4 × the pitch in metres, so roughly 9 m at 2.6 mm, and it still reads cleanly well inside that. A coarser panel only starts to make sense on a screen nobody gets within about 15 m of, which is why 2.6 mm covers conference, stage, sport and outdoor work alike. The cabinets are the outdoor build — 5000 nits, IP-rated — so they hold their picture in daylight and get dimmed right down indoors.

No, and it rarely can. Because the wall is built from 500 mm cells, the achievable ratios are whatever cols ÷ rows gives you. A mismatch under about 2 % is invisible once the content is scaled to fill and cropped rather than letterboxed, so the calculator ranks the nearest buildable walls and shows how far each one sits from your target rather than pretending an exact match exists.

Because the 1 m cabinet stands upright, a wall built only from them can only be an even number of ROWS — the height jumps in 1 m steps. The 500 × 500 is the half-step: it closes an odd row count, trims a wall to a stage opening, and gets you shapes like 9 × 5 cells (4.5 × 2.5 m) that a pure stack of 1 m panels cannot reach. Watch the arithmetic though: an odd row count costs one 500 × 500 in EVERY column, so a 9-column wall at 5 rows needs 9 of them. That is why the calculator counts the two sizes separately rather than quoting a single panel number.

We hang them the way they are built — upright, 500 mm wide and 1000 mm tall, filling two cells stacked in one column — so that is what the calculator works out. Laid on their side they would fill two cells side by side and everything mirrors: height would move in 0.5 m steps and width in 1 m, and it would be an odd COLUMN count costing one 500 × 500 in every row rather than an odd row count costing one per column. That only works where a cabinet has locks and hanging hardware on all four edges and the receiving-card scan direction can be rotated. Either way the picture is unaffected — size, resolution, aspect ratio and power draw are identical, because rotating a cabinet moves seams, not pixels.

Yes — it returns planning figures for panel weight, rigged weight, peak power draw, the number of 10 A or 32 A three-phase circuits, data ports, receiving cards and a suggested controller class. They are planning figures for scoping a job, not a sign-off: we confirm the final numbers against the datasheet for the cabinets going out on your job, and any flown wall needs a qualified rigger.