Monday 17 September 2018

What Are Channel Letter Signs?

By Alex D White


As you look for different advertising methods for your business, channel letters are probably the most popular ones that you may come across. It is effective for both inside and outside advertising. Apart from being cost efficient, it is also found to be effective as an advertising method as it has helped much business to become popular as a brand.

There are different types of channel letter signs that are available to use, one of which is using channel letter with raceway mounted channel letter sign. The channel letter signs that you thus see is attached to a box that is known as raceway that resembles a rectangular box. The box contains all kinds of wiring and essential electrical components and also mounts the letters and makes the light functions.

The main reason behind the popularity of the channel letters is their availability in a variety of shapes, sizes, colours, designs and so on. You can avail them in various faces and multiple colours. You can also look for channel letters that have different fonts. The modern day channel letters are known to be flame resistant, earlier the arching channel letters were very popular.

Use of high density plastic body provides it with the protection it needs against flames. Creating the channel letter sign and mounting them up the wall is all you need to do, once this is done there is no maintenance cost involved, which makes them very cost effective and efficient. There are different types of channel letters available and you can choose from any one you want, as each of them come with added benefits.

As people look to mount these letters individually onto the wall, the person that hangs the letter is responsible to ensure that it lays out the pattern directly on the wall where it has to be fixed. Keeping this in mind the holes are drilled for the letters and then for the electrical components. It is also found that the using this process is comparatively more expensive then what you have to pay for getting the raceway installed.

LED simply stands for light emitting diode and this is a technology that now is being used for saving a lot of electrical energy both at the residence and the workplace. Moreover, the LED technology has also been gaining its popularity as it is being used in signage based advertising sector. These channel letters are attractive advertising methods that do help in effective promotion of the business.

There are different ways that are used to mount the channel letters onto the wall, one can either look to mount it directly to the wall, do it individually or use a rectangular box, which is otherwise also known as raceway. However, it is found that individually mounted channel letters are more appealing as compared to other methods.

Next type of channel letter is having the reverse channel letters. These signs are known to have metal faces, which are also found to return to the side of the letters. Moreover, it is also found that these channel letters have a good plastic covering and it is mostly designed to be mounted an inch away from a wall. Thus, considering this, such channel letters are known to give a halo-lit look during the night.




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