LED wall tools / NovaStar capacity
How many pixels and LED panels does a NovaStar MX20 drive?
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- Panels a port
- 17
- 650,000 pixels a port
- Panels on one MX20
- 102
- 3,900,000 pixels
- Largest wall near 16:9
- 13 × 7
- 21'-3 7/8" × 11'-5 13/16" · 2496 × 1344
The NovaStar MX20 has 6 1G Ethernet ports, and 2 fibre outputs that copy them. At 8-bit and 60 Hz a port carries 650,000 pixels and the unit 3.9 million. At 10-bit that is 487,500 a port and 2.92 million a unit. One unit outputs an image up to 4,096 × 4,096 pixels. On 500 mm P2.6 panels (192 × 192) that is 17 panels a port and 102 a unit, up to a 13 × 7 wall (21'-3 7/8" × 11'-5 13/16", 2496 × 1344).
| Bit depth | Per port | Per unit | P2.6 panels a port | P2.9 panels a port | P3.9 panels a port | P2.6 panels a unit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8-bit | 650,000 | 3,900,000 | 17 | 23 | 39 | 102 |
| 10-bit | 487,500 | 2,925,000 | 13 | 17 | 29 | 78 |
| 12-bit | 325,000 | 1,950,000 | 8 | 11 | 19 | 48 |
From NovaStar's MX20 V1.5.1 datasheet. A figure the sheet prints at a bit depth is used as printed; one printed only at 8-bit is rescaled by the bits a pixel takes on the wire, and frame rate scales it linearly. The unit's total is the smaller of its ports added up and its stated maximum. Panels a port are whole 500 × 500 mm panels; a dash means the unit does not take that bit depth.
Figures checked October 1, 2026. How PixelBid calculates