Since the display of a PC is something that you keep staring at for a long time, you need to devise something to install it. However, the degree of freedom of the stand attached to the display is not high. So, I tried to improve the layout of the installation by using the arm for the display.
I want to stack displays vertically and use them
Attaching a display to an arm was unthinkable when using a cathode ray tube display. However, the situation has changed completely as light and light LCDs have become commonplace.
The display arm is for attaching the display to the panel at the tip of the movable arm using the screw hole for VESA mount equipped on the back side of the display so that the height, angle, left and right position etc. can be adjusted. is. Think of it as a deer that floats the display in the air and freely manipulates its position. It used to be very expensive, but now it’s available for around 10,000 yen.
VESA is an acronym for Video Electronics Standards Association and is a standards body for the video industry. Speaking of developing the DisplayPort standard, you might think it’s over there.
Many of the displays on the market have a panel attached to the attached stand, which is attached to the back of the display and the kachan to make it self-supporting. For cheap displays, the stand may be directly attached with screws or the like. In any case, if you have a VESA compatible display product, you should find four screw holes on the back of the panel. The vertical x horizontal spacing of the screw holes is defined as a standard. I think it’s 100mm x 100mm for a typical 30-inch or smaller display. The specs state that it supports VESA mount, so you should be able to check it before purchasing.
I wanted a display arm because I wanted to install both a 28-inch display and a 27-inch display vertically side by side in a horizontal position.
I wanted to make the 28-inch display stand on its own with the attached stand and place the 27-inch display on it. If you stack the displays on the same vertical axis, the installation base will interfere with the upper and lower displays, and you will not be able to lift the upper display to the top of the lower display in the first place. I thought about preparing another stand for installation, but I’m worried about fixing it to prevent it from tipping over. Since this was my first experience, I decided to try using the arm with a focus on interest.
Use the arm to lay out the display in a high position
First, I got the “HP Single Monitor Arm”. Ergotron is famous as an arm vendor, but it seems that this is an OEM. There are products that seem to be the same, not only in the original Ergotron, but also in Amazon Basic and so on. I chose this product because the color is matte black, but the original “Ergotron LX Desk Mount Monitor Arm” is also matte black. The price is a little cheap because it is an OEM product, but the price seems to fluctuate from time to time.
I received a three-piece set consisting of a support with a pedestal that attaches to the desk, an arm that attaches to it, and an arm that attaches to the display. Attach the base to the desk with a clamp. The desk I’m using has a metal curtain plate, so I was worried if it could be attached properly, but it seems that there is no problem because I can just pinch the curtain plate with a clamp. If I was worried, I was preparing to scissors a wooden board together, but I was sad.
If it is low, make it high with a long pole
The arm was installed once it seemed to work, but there was a miscalculation. The height is not enough to stack the displays vertically. The stanchions were short.
I found “Pole for Sanko Monitor Arm” there. This is an option for the company’s arm products, available in 70 cm and 100 cm. The diameter is the same at 35mm, so it should be usable for the HP product I was using this time. When I looked it up, I found many blogs that explain how to use it.
Sanko’s products are rich in variety and cheap, and the product lineup is so rich that I should have done it from the beginning. There seems to be a high degree of freedom regarding the movement of the arm.
The Sanko long pole that I purchased additionally is integrated with the base part, and the first support is wasted, but the belly cannot be replaced on the back. I got a 70cm pole, attached it to my desk and attached the arm, and it turned out to be a nice height. The texture is very similar and there is no sense of discomfort.
With this, we were able to create a 27-inch display on top of a 28-inch display. However, when a display of this size is loaded, the height from the desk is close to 80 cm at the top. With this height, you need to bend your neck considerably upwards to get a view of the display above. It’s like looking up. If you can lower the lower display a little more, you can lower the position of the upper display, but you can’t lower it any further within the height adjustment range of the included stand.
If so, the lower display should also be equipped with an arm and the height should be lowered by about 5 cm. You can also attach two arms to the pole so you can do it.
I thought about various things, but for the time being, I decided to lower the display above a little. What a carving. However, the neck of the arm can be laid on its back 70 degrees backwards, but it can only be turned forward 5 degrees. I really wish I could look down a little more. Sanko’s products seem to have a wider range of movement in all directions. After all, it seems that it is necessary to analyze the products of each company in various ways for the ideal setting.
Expansion of multi-display environment
As a personal use, once the display is installed on the desk and the layout is decided, it hardly moves. When you think of an arm, you can imagine how to move it flexibly by pushing it far away when you are not using the display, or changing the angle according to the work, but unlike the Z light of the desk stand light, the keyboard and mouse are facing the display. The task of using a mouse feels almost no need to move the display. Nowadays, it is becoming more common to connect an external stationary display to a notebook PC, but if you use an arm, you can set it in a layout that makes it easier to work. Still, it will be almost fixed.
At the time of the Great East Japan Earthquake, there was no major damage to my room, but the display on my desk fell forward in the direction of facing down, and the surface of the display was scratched. If the display is fixed to the arm, you don’t have to worry about it. In that sense, the use of arms can be said to be an earthquake disaster countermeasure.
There is also the idea that it would be better to use one larger display than to use multiple displays in this way. However, it is more flexible to have multiple displays. For example, when using Zoom or Teams for an online meeting, or watching a movie on Netflix, one display is full-screen and the other display is used for research, memos, and other tasks. You can also keep windows of various apps open for receiving emails and messages, checking SNS, and so on. Opening multiple windows on one display is a hassle.
The snap layout of Windows 11 introduced earlier may be a function prepared for such use. Using multiple displays is like extending this snap layout on a display-by-display basis.
The current complaint is that the font size etc. are not the same for each display because each display size is different. There is also a problem with the display across the display.
Windows’ multi-display support allows you to change the scaling ratio for each display, but it’s a rough 25% unit. It is difficult to absorb the slightly different size differences such as 27 type and 28 type like this time. You can buy all the same size displays from the beginning, but that’s not the case.
With the evolution of GPUs, business users who don’t play games can use abundant graphic resources, so I’d like Windows to start working on this as well. I think there are many power users who think so.
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