With school season approaching basketball fans are preparing for the excitement that comes with their team’s first game of the year. Spirit wear, pride bands and face paint will be in full effect as the players and coaches prepare to take to the court.
Basketball Scoreboard, it’s not just the uniforms and cheerleaders that are important in game day preparation – a quality basketball scoreboard is just as crucial.
At a minimum, a basketball scoreboard must display the current time left in the period as well as the home and visiting teams’ scores. Other commonly displayed information includes a time out indicator, period, team fouls (with an indication of which team is in a team foul penalty situation), player fouls and possession (with a separate possession arrow display at half court).
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Additionally, many scoreboards feature a color distinction that indicates the trailing team’s score number with red lighting while the leading team’s score number is illuminated green. This is a great way to increase the visual impact of a game’s statistics and can help to increase a crowd’s enthusiasm.
The LED displays on a basketball scoreboard are controlled by power line modems which send digital control signals over the AC wires that provide electricity to the scoreboard. This technology uses a frequency shift keying (FSK) technique which modulates the signal to transmit two radio frequencies, representing binary 0s and 1s. A relatively recent development in radio transmission, spread spectrum, permits much more robust and reliable wireless control of scoreboards.