Cabinet choice usually collapses into one of three questions — how close the audience sits, what the site does with water and dust, and whether the wall hangs from truss or stands on the floor. This page routes those three questions to one answer, using the R7 die-cast platform as the reference. If you are comparing offers for an LED stage display rental service, or weighing what stage led screen manufacturers actually put in the flight case, start with sightline and load path before you start with price.
The common error is quoting a wall before anyone has walked the room. Answer the three questions below in order and the cabinet family, the pitch and the handling routine all fall out of the same conversation.
Front-row seating distance and any IMAG camera position set the pitch. Two walls of the same size can need different pitches because one has a first row at the stage edge and the other has nobody inside the mid-hall.
A dark conference hall, a covered outdoor stage and a marquee booth fail in three different ways. The site tells you what sealing and what cable discipline to write into the order rather than assume.
Truss-hung walls and floor-standing walls reach the same modules from opposite sides. Rear service access versus front service access is a cabinet property, not a crew preference, so it changes what you buy.
Outcome: pitch → sealing → cabinet and handling. Once those three are fixed, the remaining decisions — spares, crew timing, colour consistency between deliveries — are logistics rather than specification.
Both pitches run on the same die-cast cabinet family, so the choice is not a choice of product class — it is a choice about who is standing closest and what the content demands.
| Decision factor | P3.91 | P4.81 |
|---|---|---|
| Nearest viewer | Closest rows, stage-edge seating, cameras pushed in for IMAG | Mid-hall sightlines, standing audience, no seat inside the first block |
| Content fit | Face close-ups on IMAG, fine type, detailed slides, logos with thin strokes | Bold graphics, large video, sponsor loops, logo walls read at a distance |
| Cost position | The finer-pitch option of the two on the same cabinet platform | The value-pitch option of the two on the same cabinet platform |
| Overspend looks like | Nobody sits close enough to resolve the extra detail you paid for | — |
| Under-spec looks like | — | First-row guests or a hot camera can see pixel structure on faces and thin text |
Decision rule: if the closest viewer can pick out individual LEDs on the front row, step up to P3.91 — if nobody gets nearer than the middle of the room, stay at P4.81 and spend the difference on more cabinets, spares or crew time.
Sealing decisions are made by failure mode, not by a data sheet line. Read the three settings below and ask which one your date actually resembles.
The room is dark and the audience is seated at a fixed distance. Adjustable brightness matters more than sealing here — pull the output down and the wall stops fighting the lighting state.
What goes wrong hereOver-bright walls washing out the front row, and colour drift between cabinets that only shows up on a flat grey slide.
A roof is not a wall. Damp air, wind-driven rain at the open edge and dust underfoot are the normal conditions, and brightness has to climb back up because the ambient light is higher.
What goes wrong hereWater tracking along a cable that enters low, and condensation forming when a warm cabinet meets a cold night load-out.
Floor-standing, front-serviced, built and struck inside a tight hall window. Content is a repeating loop read from two to four metres, and the wall gets knocked by trolleys all day.
What goes wrong hereCorner damage that spreads into a cabinet swap instead of a module swap, and a rear panel nobody can reach behind a booth.
A rating describes how well the enclosure and its connector interfaces keep out solids and liquids. It does not describe face cleaning, condensation inside a warm cabinet on a cold night, or what happens when a cable entry is left loose at load-out. The R7 product page does not publish an IP figure, so if your site has weather in it, put the required sealing level in writing on the quote and let the supplier confirm what the delivered cabinet achieves.
The rigging decision reaches all the way back to the cabinet: it decides which side of the wall your crew can open, and it decides how much of the pitch you buy is actually usable.
| If your season looks like… | What it forces on the cabinet | What to put in the quote |
|---|---|---|
| Flown walls only | Rear access on every cabinet, and a handling routine that tolerates truss work in gloves | R7 with rear maintenance access, plus the truss-hanging accessories in the delivered set |
| Ground-stacked only | Front access, plus a ground support frame and ballast plan for the height you want | R7 with front maintenance access and the frame sized to your tallest wall |
| Both, across a season | A cabinet that opens from either side, so one fleet covers booth walls and stage walls | One R7 platform, and mixed P3.91 / P4.81 stock only if the sightlines genuinely differ |
The R7 cabinet is built around the mid-week corporate rhythm: build, show, strike, back in the case. Three details carry that load.
A rental fleet fails quietly: not with a dead cabinet, but with one panel that reads a shade warmer than the rest three shows into the season. Two things in the R7 platform work against that.
One cabinet, two pitches. P3.91 and P4.81 share the same cabinet family, so a house that stocks both still holds one set of mechanical spares, one handling routine and one crew habit.
Matched output per delivery. Brightness and colour are matched cabinet to cabinet, and the output is adjustable — pulled down for a dark conference hall, pushed up under a marquee or a bright exhibition hall.
Before any cabinet goes back out, the practical check is a latch inspection on every edge, a look at the corners for flat spots, a check of the rear connector pins for bent contacts, and a run on a test pattern next to a known-good neighbour.
The R7 is the cost-performance tier of the range — die-cast rental cabinets in two pitches, aimed at corporate work, roadshows, exhibitions and small-to-medium stage performances.
The honest part of a specification hub is saying where a cabinet does not belong. The R7 is a mid-week corporate and roadshow platform, and its own product page says so.
A quote is only as good as the brief behind it. Include these and the supplier can answer with a configured wall rather than a price per square metre.
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yes — repair is module level, so a single module is swapped instead of a whole cabinet. the r7 supports both front and rear maintenance access: front access on ground-stacked walls where there is no walkway behind, and rear access on flown walls where the crew works from truss side.
cabinet joints use a tool-free quick-lock structure: each joint closes on its own latch so two people can raise a wall without spanners, and the latches release in seconds at load-out. the die-cast aluminium shell is rigid but light enough for two people to carry case to stage.
corporate conferences and dealer meetings, multi-city roadshows, trade fairs and exhibition stands, small-to-medium stage performances, club and venue work, and covered semi-outdoor events such as marquees and festival side stages. the product page states explicitly that a national tour with a daily strike belongs on a different cabinet in the range.
the r7 is supplied as a complete set of accessories with basic on-site technical support included in the service. because it is a rental platform, the accessory set is what the crew needs to build and strike repeatedly, not a one-off installation kit.
there is no price list, cart or stock selector on the product page — the buy path is a quote request. submit the wall size, target pitch, mounting method and show dates, and the quote covers mixed p3.91 and p4.81 quantities drawn from the one r7 cabinet family, along with spares and accessory sets.
