If you have been shopping fine-pitch indoor LED in 2026, you have heard two slogans. One says COB won. The other says MIP replaces COB. Both oversell.

Glue on Board (GOB) adds a cured protective layer over an assembled SMD LED module. It can improve resistance to bumps, dust, moisture and static — but it is not a universal upgrade over SMD or COB.

A 4K LED wall is a cabinet count and a hang load first. Plan kg, pick points, and ground-stack vs fly before you buy pitch — factory planning notes, not a rigging cert.

Rental houses often order cabinets from a brochure photo: clean aluminium, a pretty lock, a pitch number in the headline. The wall that goes up on Saturday night does not care about the photo. It asks for geometry — how wide and tall the surface must be — and for crew time — how many […]

Outdoor festival LED rental checklist: daylight nits, front/rear IP, wind as engineer work, main vs IMAG pitch, and generator sizing from average watts–not brochure peaks.

Measure closest pew for pitch, farthest seat for wall height, then round to cabinet grid. A church LED sizing worksheet—not a brochure pitch list.

Peak watts size the circuit and the generator. Average watts size the electricity bill. How church and rental LED walls get both numbers wrong.