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Bill of Materials ​

LED.FYI automatically generates a comprehensive Bill of Materials (BOM) from your project configuration. The BOM tracks all equipment, cabling, and power requirements.

What's Included ​

Equipment ​

  • Panels — Count and type for each screen, including any half-panel variants
  • Processors — Video processor model and quantity
  • Switches — Fiber switch models and quantity (for 10G trunk setups)
  • Backup equipment — Additional processors, switches, and cabling for redundancy configurations

Cables ​

  • Data cables — 1G Ethernet cable count and lengths based on panel-to-panel distances
  • Trunk cables — 10G fiber trunk cables between processors and switches
  • Power cables — Power distribution cabling

Power ​

  • Total wattage — Sum of max power draw for all panels
  • Circuit count — Number of power circuits needed based on voltage and amperage limits
  • Per-circuit load — Wattage and panel count per power circuit

Weight ​

  • Panel weight — Per-screen totals by panel type, sourced from the equipment library
  • Cable weight — Estimated data cable (Cat5e) and power cable (14/3 AWG) weight per screen
  • Grand total — Combined panel and cable weight per screen (padded by 10% safety margin)

Weight estimates are also available as a dedicated section in the PDF export.

Physical ​

  • Screen dimensions — Physical size of each screen (width x height in mm/m)
  • Total pixel count — Resolution of each screen and the project total

Viewing the BOM ​

The BOM is calculated in real-time and appears in:

How It's Calculated ​

The BOM calculator uses pure functions that derive everything from the current project state:

  1. Panel count = Sum of all active (non-disabled) panels across all screens
  2. String count = Determined by data path and pixel-per-string limits
  3. Cable lengths = Based on physical panel sizes and the wiring path between panels
  4. Power circuits = Total wattage divided by (voltage x max amps per circuit)
  5. Weight = Sum of panel weights from the equipment library
  6. Backup equipment = Additional processors, switches, trunk cables, and data cables from redundancy configuration

Changes to any project setting automatically update the BOM — there's nothing to refresh or recalculate manually.

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