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 equipment 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

Physical

• Total weight — Combined weight of all panels
• 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:

• Export Paperwork — Included as tables in the PDF export
• Share Pages — Visible on shared project links

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 items required by redundancy configuration

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