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22,000 power supplies now located in the Dallas Cowboys stadium
There has been a lot of TV coverage recently concerning the Dallas Cowboys giant video displays at their new stadium in Arlington. The $40m, four-sided, high-definition Diamond Vision video board, which is built by Mitsubishi Electric, uses 22,000 TDK-Lambda ZWS power supplies to light the 25 million Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs) needed to create the image on the screen.
As pAlready Cowboys fans have watched players like Marion Barber, Felix Jones and Tony Romo in a way that no fan has ever seen – and, during a recent concert, Sir Paul McCartney adorned the screens. “For high profile installations such as these, the display manufacturer wanted a reliable, quality product to power its LEDs,” says David Norton, vice president of marketing at TDK-Lambda Americas. “That‘s why they chose ZWS power supplies from TDK-Lambda.”
Another record breaker, this time recognised as the world’s highest resolution LED display, is located in the New York Yankee Stadium. Here 8,590 ZWS power supplies are used to power the eight and a half million LEDs used to render the image onto the screen. “Like the Dallas Cowboys displays,” says Norton, “TDK-Lambda power supplies were selected for their long-term reliability and quality.”