Would this triple stand work for 3 - 27" ?

Zorachus

Zorachus

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I have three Dell 27" LCD's I use in my EYEFINITY gaming setup :cool: One is the older Dell 2707WFP, and I got two used Dell 2709WFP's on Craigslist for cheap last month :)

Right now my ghetto stands of three paint cans is not cutting it, and I want to be able to use these 27" in Portrait mode too, but they need to be unscrewed from the Dell stand with special torq screw driver and not meant to switch back and forth from Landscape to Portrait easily, UNLESS I buy a new stand for them and mount them.

So I saw this at Fry's, and they were in stock, just scared to blow the cash and bring it home only to find it doesn't work ?

Ergotech Triple LCD Desk Stand
http://www.frys.com/product/5955874?site=sr:SEARCH:MAIN_RSLT_PG

Or would be willing to buy three separate new mounts, if this one allows for Portrait flipping ?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...4&cm_re=monitor_stands-_-24-994-014-_-Product
 
Gee,

Since you have three matching monitors, I'm guessing that your Eyefinity system is already working fine with the three stands in Landscape orientation.

So, you may be wanting to try the three monitors in Portrait orientation, but the three OEM stand may not allow that.

Is that correct?

Sure, a nice, expensive, single stand that could handle three monitors with a single footprint is probably ideal.

Three single stands that rotate 360 degrees, costing about $300 for three, seems less-ideal.

So, if you want to use the three existing OEM stands, on-the-cheap, and get them to do Portrait, maybe you could adapt an interface between the stands and the monitors, to rotate.

Something like three of these $19 wall mounts, could probably be used as an interface by using a few square, flat, 12 gauge steel plates. You can cut 12 gauge steel with a jigsaw and a blade for steel cutting. Then just drilling some holes in the needed pattern would probably do it:

http://cgi.ebay.com/wall-mount-brac...emQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item1c0e46fb40

Otherwise, I'd get a real heavy-duty, expensive, single stand that is designed to rotate and handle three 30" LCD monitors, i.e., more than your three 27" monitors. Some times less-is-more, but that's probably never really true with monitor stands.

Please let us all hear how it goes.

Peace to you,
C. Livingstone

PS: That single stand you linked to is designed for three 24" monitors, and may work fine. But there is a chance that it may only work for the three 27" monitors in Portrait mode, and only two 27" monitors in Landscape mode. So, weight is probably not the real factor, as that style is self-balancing via gravity. But, if the return policy is good, I'd give it a shot.
 
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Zorachus said:
I have three Dell 27" LCD's I use in my EYEFINITY gaming setup :cool: One is the older Dell 2707WFP, and I got two used Dell 2709WFP's on Craigslist for cheap last month :)

Right now my ghetto stands of three paint cans is not cutting it, and I want to be able to use these 27" in Portrait mode too, but they need to be unscrewed from the Dell stand with special torq screw driver and not meant to switch back and forth from Landscape to Portrait easily, UNLESS I buy a new stand for them and mount them.

So I saw this at Fry's, and they were in stock, just scared to blow the cash and bring it home only to find it doesn't work ?

Ergotech Triple LCD Desk Stand
http://www.frys.com/product/5955874?site=sr:SEARCH:MAIN_RSLT_PG

Or would be willing to buy three separate new mounts, if this one allows for Portrait flipping ?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...4&cm_re=monitor_stands-_-24-994-014-_-Product
Click to expand...

FWIW, Buy.com seems to have the single monitor stand for $71.19 (incl. shipping)
http://www.buy.com/prod/ergotron-ne...ey-ergotron-neo-flex/q/loc/111/206782132.html

I also would be concerned that a triple stand designed for 24" would not work for 27" in landscape, nor allow for monitor rotation.
 
Sure,

No footprint on the desktop with three wall mounts sounds good. But i'd make sure all three mounts are rock solid to the wall, if you do that, as the extension ability adds a lot of tension to the mounting hardware, and those particular wall mounts don't seem to have the ability to raise and lower (just extend, tilt, and rotate), so if they aren't all mounted perfectly or if one begins to sag a little there seems to be no adjustment to keep the alignment, except maybe using shims at the mount to the wall.

Please let us all hear what finally works for you.

Peace,
C. Livingstone
 
Gee,

It seems there is no off-the-shelf, horizontal, triple mount for anything above a smaller, lighter sized LCD, with a wall mount.

Here's a lightweight one:

http://www.ergoindemand.com/monitor-arm-wall-multi.htm

The weight and size of three 27" LCD is too much for anything like that.

But take notice, the design has the three monitors mounted directly to the horizontal arc, just like the desktop one you cited.

You could probably design your own custom mount, using that hard-mount arc concept to keep the three monitors on a perfect horizontal plane, and then use two heavy duty articulating wall-mounts to mount the arc to the wall. That way you'd have perfect horizontal alignment, extension, group and individual tilting, and no desktop footprint, etc. But I doubt that two articulating mounts that also have raising and lowering ability on the fly (like my Ergotron LX), could hold three, or even two, 27" LCDs. So, raising and lowering could be done as a custom feature in a special wall mount or on a vertical pole or two, if that is a strongly desired adjustment feature you want.

Of course, you may want more than a fixed, mild arc. You may even want an adjustable arc or three facets, which would be fairly easy to fabricate with some fairly light channel steel. I mean, instead of arching the long horizontal piece, you could just use flat channel steel and integrate a couple of vertical hinges near the two joints on the right and left vertical edge of the center monitor. That way you could bring the side monitors to wrap around as much or as little as you wanted in an adjustable manner, but you'd also have to allow the two outboard monitors to have slotted mounts on the channel steel, in order to prevent clashing of the bezels when doing that.

So, there seem to be no great off-the-shelf solution for your objective, at any price.

But, it seems like a worthy goal, to get an Eyefinity system, with three 27" LCDs, elegantly mounted to a wall or vertical structure with some level of adjustability.

That's pretty much the way I mounted my 23" NEC with the Ergotron LX (desktop mount version), since I welded a better clamp mount to it and turned it upside down, so it mounts and hangs from an upper shelf, instead of extending from the desktop.

So, again, if I were you, wanting to keep three monitors in a horizontal plane (Portrait or Landscape), and wanted to mount them off the desktop while having an extension ability, I'd keep the single arc concept in mind, then decide how I would want the arc to mount to the wall or other vertical structure.

Please let us all hear how it goes.

Peace,
C. Livingstone
 
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Thank you all for the advice, I really appreciate. The #1 most important thing for me in a stand or mount, is allowing the monitor to rotate into Portrait mode, that is huge. I like to switch back and forth between Portrait and Landscape for different games, so what ever options allows that the easiest, and smoothest is highest on my list. And it seems the Ergotron Neo-Flex Widescreen Lift Stand, might be the best option for me possibly ? Because it can be reused again on different displays, plus easy to move around.

So for triple screen gaming setup, especially on bigger displays of 24"+, most of the main triple screen arc mounts are not designed for larger and heavier screens. Seems the most popular ones were made for the 19"-22" size, and are several years old, meaning before the EYEFINITY technology arrived, and people were building huge triple screen game rigs.

To me there seems to be 4 main routes to go;

#1 - Ergotech Triple LCD Desk Stand...but not good for 3 - 27". But the best concept/idea
http://www.frys.com/product/5955874?site=sr:SEARCH:MAIN_RSLT_PG

#2 - Swing wall mounted arm...but that could be tricky, need to make sure they line up perfect, plus they do not allow vertical movement up and down ?
http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/...&cs=19&c=us&l=en&dgc=SS&cid=50390&lid=1305792

#3 - Ergotron Neo-Flex Widescreen Lift Stand...Would need 3 individual stands, but allows for high custom settings, to pivot, tilt, rise up/down, rotate, etc...
http://www.buy.com/prod/ergotron-ne...ey-ergotron-neo-flex/q/loc/111/206782132.html

#4 - Make your own
 
Yeah,

That #1, the desktop triple, does rotate, and might be fine with three 27" monitors.

I'd buy that first, if you like the amount of its intrinsic arc and wrap around, and if it has a good return policy. That way you'd have something from day-one that works without any mounting or modification and has only one desktop footprint that is always in horizontal alignment, while allowing to rise/lower, tilt, and for pushing back and forth as a single piece on the desktop.

And if that does work fine in both the Portrait and Landscape orientation on a desktop, then I'd think about possibly adapting a couple of arm mechanisms to it, like your #2, if desired.

Your #3 is the three stand solution, which you're already doing, except without Portrait, and without the added 200+ bucks. But that does give you more wrap around adjustability.

Your #4 could be as much fun or trouble as you want.

So, there you go, big guy. You've got options and a choice to make.

Please let us all hear how it goes.

Peace to you,
C. Livingstone
 
I like this concept/idea the best, and it looks super sleek and nice :cool:

Also on Amazon it is the cheapest at $190.

Scroll down on this page to see the detailed pic's, what do you think ? It says maximum screen width of 25", and measuring the physical width of my Dell 2709WFP's, they are from outside edge to outside edge 24-3/4" wide.
http://www.ergodirect.com/product_info.php?products_id=15941
 
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Yeah,

That one may be just a bit shy, for corner-to-corner joints. Maybe not?

Or, maybe the depth of your monitors will push them out further than others from the arc mount, giving them a a slightly shorter circumference to fit into. You just never know until you try something like that how much "fudging" there is.

Peace to you,
C. Livingstone

PS: I'll bet that triple desktop/gravity stand you cited at your first post is similar in the arc dimension and make up, but with the stand included, and for a little more money. The literature says for up to three 24", but the title says for 17" to 30". Go figure. Like I said, I'd get that one, if it can be returned, and then you can adapt it latte (if it works x3 with Landscape on the desktop) to a wall, if desired. Or, were you thinking of putting that arc on a pole, as it's designed to do?
 
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Right On, Zorachus!

You may be doing something that has not yet been done before, i.e., a custom-budget-stand-mount with three 27" monitors for an Eyefinity system.

Peace to you,
C. Livingstone
 
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