I had the same issue with my monitor arms. I solved it by placing the outer arms futher away from the center arm and that worked a treat for me. In your case that would have ment a longer piece of wood to mount your arms on. For clarity I am using 3x 27" screens.
Hey Poly ...great job indeed. We've discussed the inverted pedals your DIY Rig before & I too had the same display issue. My triple display consists of 43 inch TV's & no mounting arms would work. I used 3 aluminum panels & 2 piano hinges to make a wing like mount that I screwed to the studs of my wall. Each panel have "keyholes & Slots" to receive the mounting screws in the back of the TV's which protrude out 1/4 inch for the slots. I simply hang the TV's on the panels & the slots allow the outboard TV's to slide into any position. I swing them closed for gaming ...but when watching ...I open them up to a 114 x 22 inch "full-wall" display. Great for playbacks or those Windows generated "Aquarium Displays" ...lol. & Merry Christmas to yah!
Ha! Looks like our need for triple screens makes us come up with all kinds of 'inventions'! :) 3 x 43" sounds VERY nice! Unfortunately having smaller screens VERY close isn't an option for me anymore (can anyone say "presbyopia"?), so moving to larger screen size and move them further away is the only real option. Might have to go to bigger screens myself one of these days... Merry Christmas to you too - many thanks!
@@Polymer After buying the newest & best PC ...I made the error of buying the cheapest 4K TV's on the market. (TCL brand) They do the job but higher quality displays are my next upgrade. I'm also considering an outboard GPU station to accommodate 3 GPU's ...one for each display ...only then will I see true 4K @ 120 GHz on BIG displays ...AND ...Microsoft Flight Sim might actually give me 60 FPS. Right now I'm lucky to get 40! ACC runs phenomenal though. This can be an expensive retirement hobby ...lol!
@@MsTheCops "outboard GPU"....hmmm, now I have to investigate....:) My current computer barely runs the 3 x 32", but I can't complain: I was lucky to even find a RX6800 with three DisplayPort outputs for reasonable money. Since I am traveling right now, I am running a single 1080P screen off a ASUS Zenbook laptop. AC and iRacing runs surprisingly good. Haven't even attempted MS Flight Simulator though...I think it would do 2fps... :)
@@Polymer Sorry about the huge "link addresses" ...Poly ...some outboard GPU docks have their own power supply & you can even have an additional HD installed on them. They are aimed at the Laptop cure for limited space ... However; they also work for video expansion on a big desk top.
Dude u just proved u don't have to spend so much $$ on a setup. U have a setup some guys spend 3,000 dollars on cuz they are lazy. Very impressive man!
@@ebojager Cheers! Yeah, I have a ton of other videos....but haven't got around to edit them all together. I have a build video of the wooden sim rig, for instance.
Hi there! Very nice! Congrats ! Just one thing, how is your viewing angle with those curved monitors on the side, aren’t there any kind of color distortion? Tks! Again, very nice rig!!
Thanks! Yes, I was also concerned that the curvature of [especially] the two outside motors would give some weird distortion, but I am happy to report that this is not the case; this monitor combination works VERY well for me, and I am very pleased with the set-up.
Think you would have saved your self a lot of trubble by just making a rig out of T-slot alu profiles or at least the monitor mount. but otherwise nicely done.
@@IvanGOrtolan I built a complete Alu profile rig in China (using pre-cut 120x40, 80x40 and 40x40 profile according to my design) for ~U$140.00, incl Monitor stands. The build in this video was deliberately NOT using alu profile, but wood instead. That was kind of the whole purpose of it.
@@IvanGOrtolan Yeah, fair enough. just wanted to keep this one alu-profile free, and not have the monitors be supported on the floor. I wanted to prove (to myself) that the wood design was strong enough to hold the monitors as well. But your point is definitely valid! 👍
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I had the same issue with my monitor arms. I solved it by placing the outer arms futher away from the center arm and that worked a treat for me. In your case that would have ment a longer piece of wood to mount your arms on. For clarity I am using 3x 27" screens.
Yeah. I was surprised that no "extra long" monitor arms exist for the larger monitors in a 3-monitor setup. We have to get inventive! :)
@@Polymer agreed. they only need to be a few inches longer and problem solved.
Hey Poly ...great job indeed. We've discussed the inverted pedals your DIY Rig before & I too had the same display issue. My triple display consists of 43 inch TV's & no mounting arms would work. I used 3 aluminum panels & 2 piano hinges to make a wing like mount that I screwed to the studs of my wall. Each panel have "keyholes & Slots" to receive the mounting screws in the back of the TV's which protrude out 1/4 inch for the slots. I simply hang the TV's on the panels & the slots allow the outboard TV's to slide into any position. I swing them closed for gaming ...but when watching ...I open them up to a 114 x 22 inch "full-wall" display. Great for playbacks or those Windows generated "Aquarium Displays" ...lol.
& Merry Christmas to yah!
Ha! Looks like our need for triple screens makes us come up with all kinds of 'inventions'! :) 3 x 43" sounds VERY nice!
Unfortunately having smaller screens VERY close isn't an option for me anymore (can anyone say "presbyopia"?), so moving to larger screen size and move them further away is the only real option. Might have to go to bigger screens myself one of these days...
Merry Christmas to you too - many thanks!
@@Polymer After buying the newest & best PC ...I made the error of buying the cheapest 4K TV's on the market. (TCL brand) They do the job but higher quality displays are my next upgrade. I'm also considering an outboard GPU station to accommodate 3 GPU's ...one for each display ...only then will I see true 4K @ 120 GHz on BIG displays ...AND ...Microsoft Flight Sim might actually give me 60 FPS. Right now I'm lucky to get 40! ACC runs phenomenal though. This can be an expensive retirement hobby ...lol!
@@MsTheCops "outboard GPU"....hmmm, now I have to investigate....:) My current computer barely runs the 3 x 32", but I can't complain: I was lucky to even find a RX6800 with three DisplayPort outputs for reasonable money. Since I am traveling right now, I am running a single 1080P screen off a ASUS Zenbook laptop. AC and iRacing runs surprisingly good. Haven't even attempted MS Flight Simulator though...I think it would do 2fps... :)
@@Polymer Sorry about the huge "link addresses" ...Poly ...some outboard GPU docks have their own power supply & you can even have an additional HD installed on them. They are aimed at the Laptop cure for limited space ... However; they also work for video expansion on a big desk top.
Dude u just proved u don't have to spend so much $$ on a setup. U have a setup some guys spend 3,000 dollars on cuz they are lazy. Very impressive man!
Thanks! I still need to upload the video showing how I built it. I have the footage....just little time for the editing! :)
Even this setup alone can cost 3k
Top job, your DIY project turned out pretty well in the end.
Great video! Nice setup you have!
Cheers, Ebojager! :)
@@Polymer Hi! I was making a channel for my VTC and saw your channel on HAGAR/Popcorn's page :) Can't wait to watch your China videos too.
@@ebojager Cheers! Yeah, I have a ton of other videos....but haven't got around to edit them all together. I have a build video of the wooden sim rig, for instance.
This will get popular
Hi there! Very nice! Congrats ! Just one thing, how is your viewing angle with those curved monitors on the side, aren’t there any kind of color distortion? Tks! Again, very nice rig!!
Thanks! Yes, I was also concerned that the curvature of [especially] the two outside motors would give some weird distortion, but I am happy to report that this is not the case; this monitor combination works VERY well for me, and I am very pleased with the set-up.
@@Polymer Tks!
literally coulda just made the rig wider and moved the clamps down that would have given you more reach.
S'been discussed before: rig was made before the monitor issue became apparent; wasn't prepared to change the rig at that point.
Think you would have saved your self a lot of trubble by just making a rig out of T-slot alu profiles or at least the monitor mount. but otherwise nicely done.
all this work, and you could of just got a wider piece of wood on top to extend the plate where monitor arms screw into.
Thought about it, but didn't want to mess with the "MASTERPIECE"! 😃 😁 🤣
dude just buy some 8020 profiles and mount the monitor on them..
No, thank you! :)
@@Polymer would have been cheaper than buying 3 monitor arms
@@IvanGOrtolan
I built a complete Alu profile rig in China (using pre-cut 120x40, 80x40 and 40x40 profile according to my design) for ~U$140.00, incl Monitor stands.
The build in this video was deliberately NOT using alu profile, but wood instead. That was kind of the whole purpose of it.
@@Polymer ah no I meant just for the monitors, the rest is fine in wood
@@IvanGOrtolan Yeah, fair enough. just wanted to keep this one alu-profile free, and not have the monitors be supported on the floor. I wanted to prove (to myself) that the wood design was strong enough to hold the monitors as well.
But your point is definitely valid! 👍