LED wall tools / NovaStar capacity
How many pixels and LED panels does a NovaStar MX30 drive?
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- Panels a port
- 17
- 650,000 pixels a port
- Panels on one MX30
- 170
- 6,500,000 pixels
- Largest wall near 16:9
- 17 × 10
- 27'-10 5/8" × 16'-4 7/8" · 3264 × 1920
The NovaStar MX30 has 10 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 6.5 million. At 10-bit that is 487,500 a port and 4.88 million a unit. One unit outputs an image up to 16,384 × 16,384 pixels. On 500 mm P2.6 panels (192 × 192) that is 17 panels a port and 170 a unit, up to a 17 × 10 wall (27'-10 5/8" × 16'-4 7/8", 3264 × 1920).
| 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 | 6,500,000 | 17 | 23 | 39 | 170 |
| 10-bit | 487,500 | 4,875,000 | 13 | 17 | 29 | 130 |
| 12-bit | 325,000 | 3,250,000 | 8 | 11 | 19 | 80 |
From NovaStar's MX30 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