Advice for Monitor

[Himmet]

Hi everyone

I'm developing project using labview.I will buy new Monitor.But I don't decision to monitor size.I need advice for monitor.Can give me some advice??

Thanks for advice...

[josborne]

A quick comment:

I bought a 30" monitor for my workstation.  And I actually think its too big.  I find that I am forced to tilt my head around to see all four corners of the screen.  Either that, or I have to move my chair far away from the monitor.  Advice:  Go smaller than 30".

[_Bryan]

That is a very open ended question and hard to answer withou more information.  My general rule is as big of a monitor as I am allowed to buy

You can go at least 2 different ways to pick a monitor.

1.  get any monitor you can and make it work.

2.  Figure out what you want your front panel to look like and then figure out how big a monitor you will need to display it.  Will the user be directly in front of the monitor or will they need to see it from across the room?  If they are in front of the monitor indicators can be smaller which will allow more data on the screen at one time.  If you need very large indicators a larger monitor will help by not having to crank your resoloution way up.

I also don't really like to program on a 4:3 monitor and deploy on a wide screen 16:9.  It is not the end of the world, but why if I don't have to.  But anything in the 20" range should work.  And if you really need a lot of room you could always run dual monitors.  I actually have a test that is running on 4 monitors right now.  Why?  My boss wanted it and was able to get me the hardware to support it.

It also might depend if customers are going to use or see the setup or if it is just a test station for workers on the floor.  Will it need to be explosion proof?

So like I said only you can really answer the question grasshopper.

[josborne]

I second the grasshopper

[johnsold]

I like two monitors in a development environment. You can put front panels on one and block diagrams on the other. Or BD and Requirements documents. Or BD and Profile. Or many other combinations, depending on what you are doing at the moment.

If the deployment system will have smaller monitors than you use in development, have a setting on (one of) the development monitors to make it work like the deployment system so you can see what your end users will see.

Lyn

[jcarmody]

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@josborne wrote:

A quick comment:

[...] or I have to move my chair far away from the monitor.  [...]

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That approach works well for me, and it gets better as I get older.  😛

[josborne]

One other random tip for big monitors:

The harsh white colors begin to irritate my eyes after hours of programming. So my desktop background is ways pure black. And I change the background color of BD diagrams to something darker (eg grey). And I do the same in Windows for the default window color. It looks funny, but saves your eyes.

[mikeporter]

In addition to size, the other thing to consider is resolution. I have found over the years that while my monitors have gotten larger, the resolution has remained the same.

Mike... (middle-age is not for wimps)

[GuenterMueller]

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@mikeporter wrote:

[...] I have found over the years that while my monitors have gotten larger, the resolution has remained the same. [...]

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Good catch.  That's why I prefer monitors ~20 inch.

[NIquist]

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@johnsold wrote:

I like two monitors in a development environment. You can put front panels on one and block diagrams on the other. Or BD and Requirements documents. Or BD and Profile. Or many other combinations, depending on what you are doing at the moment.

If the deployment system will have smaller monitors than you use in development, have a setting on (one of) the development monitors to make it work like the deployment system so you can see what your end users will see.

Lyn

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What he said.