Before buying from
Watchfire, consider a quality sign from
Built in Texas,
Licensed for Install in Texas,
Installed and Serviced
by Signs Manufacturing Corporation.
Single-source responsibility - No excuses!
Building
quality signs, shipping signs, installing signs, and
servicing signs since 1979.
What Makes Sunburst LED Signs™
Different?
The
Special Features and Benefits of all Sunburst LED Signs™
SolarBrite™ Large LEDs –
A brighter sign with exceptional viewing angles.
Balanced Array™
- For better looking pictures.
Internal Processor
– Not a computer with all the associated problems they create.
Easy-To-Use, Open Architecture Programming
Software - Proprietary is Bad, in The Cloud is Bad, Open
Architecture software is Good. Our software is very intuitive and easy
to use.
Both Superior™
and Enhanced™ Operating Modes -
Even more versatility.
Lets the sign owner decide which display "look" is best for them.
64 GB Non-Volatile Memory
–
This sign will run, and do, whatever you want it to do – every time.
Impact-Resistant, Flame-Proof, UV-Protected Sign Faces and Glare Shields
– A Better, Safer, Longer-Lasting sign.
Individual Glare Shields
–
A sign you can read during the day.
Sunsational™
Engineering -
Custom constructed with angled faces to reduce glare.
Free Laptop Computer - Our gift to you.
Pre-Programmed -
No learning curve.
Easy-To-Use, Logical Control System
Structural Steel Frames with Aluminum Exterior Skins
–
No rust and lasts forever. Virtually Hail-proof.
Ceramic Vacuum Microsphere Exterior Coating
–
Temperature protection for the sign.
Signlux Paint Systems™ Automotive+ paints and 2 part primer system - The same exterior paint type they paint a Ferrari with. It looks
new virtually forever, helping your business.
SolarGuard™ and Lumabrite™ Protected Plastics – Won’t fade and look bad to customers.
Self-Cleaning Sign Faces
– Your sign never looks dirty and dingy, chasing potential customers away.
US Military Specification
Electrical Insulating Coating - Protects all interior electronics and electrics.
H2ORepel™ Waterproof Interior
Coating – Double+
protects all interior electronics, electrics and wiring.
Energy Saving Electrical
– Saves 35% or more of electricity costs.
Thermostat-controlled Power
Ventilation - Saves maintenance costs while saving energy costs.
UL/ETL Listed Signs
– This sign Can be legally installed anywhere, and moved anywhere at a later time.
Requires much less electrical service than an unlisted sign.
Individually LED
Brightness Calibration - Our signs will have each LED
adjusted to ensure that your sign avoids the "patchwork quilt"
appearance that you see so often with new and used LED signs.
Superior Control
Hardware - Makes every sign look better! (see
for yourself)
Special Features and Benefits of purchasing from Signs Manufacturing
We sell our signs FACTORY-DIRECT, WHOLESALE to the public,
INSTALLED.
Guaranteed Highest Quality...Guaranteed Lowest Price™ - We
manufacture the best signs, for the lowest price.
5-Year Guarantee plus a Lifetime* Warranty –
The strongest guarantees and warranties in the sign industry.
Product Liability Insurance – Protects you and your customers forever.
Deposit Insurance
– Your money is protected even if we were to default.
Established 1979 and the Largest Custom Sign Company in North Texas –
We back our claims.
Eleven Person Your-Location Sales Team – At your location to help you
anytime we are needed.
Visit Texas' Largest LED Signs Showrooms
-
Don't buy your sign from a drawing, a slick website, or photo-shopped pictures,
when you can actually see and side-by-side
compare REAL sign types, resolutions, and designs.
Automatic Customer Updates
- Always know where your sign is in production and when the completion
date will be.
State Licensed Electrical Sign Contractor – We know our business and do
our job.
State Licensed Electrical Contractor – We know electricity.
Trained QualityCertifiedSigns™ Technicians – We understand
quality.
Local Manufacturing – Local responsibility.
We Actually
Manufacture the Signs – Single-source responsibility,
without middlemen.
Full-Service Sign Company – We manufacture, install, and service all
signs; ours and others. Seven cranes/bucket trucks to 80' reach.
Seven installation/service crews.
Electronic LED Sign Experts – Because we manufacture them, we also know
how to fix them all.
Many Different Payment Options – Cash, Credit Card, and monthly payment plans including Conserve Your Nest
Egg™, Signs on Time™ Leases (with Zero Down options) and Pay as You Grow
Lease/Purchase™ options.
Delayed-Deposit Billing™
- Significantly reduced initial billing to help you control your cash-flow.
Grand Opening Package* - We want you to be successful; here's another way we're helping. A free
"Coming Soon" and "Grand Opening" banner with your name on it, and free
"store" hours lettered on your door. *Minimum order required.
The Knowledge Tree™
- The world's largest and most complete information source on
signage.
"Sign Buyer's Guide"
Brochures - How signs should be built, and why.
Sign-type-specific printed information to help you purchase
adequate signage.
SignDawgsTV™
-Free Advertising every time your signs are
featured in episodes!
Using Our Website to Learn About
Sunburst Displays™
Your sign
forms that very important "first impression" your
potential customer has of your business. Your sign must always look nearly as good as it looked the day it was installed so that you survive; don't give potential customers a worsening impression of your business as your sign ages.
Click on the "Technical Details" tab to the left to learn about the intricacies of a Sunburst LED Displays™ digital electronic message center.
Also discover how we make each sign to last;
including the use of CNC manufacturing, rust-proof metal, structural-steel
frames, high-end automotive paint, high-impact plastics, and most importantly,
sophisticated protective coatings. All our signs include these many hidden features, critically important to you but often ignored by competitors so they can make more money. We even add self-cleaning properties.
Click on the "Construction Details" tab to learn more about these features.
Sunburst Displays™ uses Solarbrite™ LEDs exclusively in manufacturing Sunburst Displays™.
Click on the "LED Technology" tab to learn why.
With an electronic message center you are leaving your computer out in the Texas rain, ice, heat and cold, and tornados and hurricane-force winds are trying to blow it away. Sunburst Displays are Built in Texas, for Texans, by us.™
But, it takes more than purchasing an excellent sign for your success. It must be installed properly, and someday in the far future hopefully, it will need to be serviced. This is why it will be important to you that WE manufacture, install and service your LED electronic message centers!
Please use and enjoy this website, the largest information resource about electronic message centers on the internet, created so you can learn about all types of signs and how you can control their affect on your image.Consider "bookmarking" our site as a "favorite" for easier reference
later.
We believe that if you're a knowledgeable purchaser there's a real good chance you'll become our customer.
We sell our signs FACTORY-DIRECT, WHOLESALE to the public,
INSTALLED.
As
detailed on the pages that follow, everything
will be done to make your sign look better, and last
longer...Guaranteed.
Signs Manufacturing™ guarantees that our price will be the lowest price
you can obtain on the product(s) described in this brochure; now or
anytime during the next 90 days.
If you are offered a lower price by someone else we will match that
lower price PLUS give you 10% of the difference.
What does anyone say who can’t compete in quality, timeliness,
professionalism, etc.? “I can save you money!” But with Signs
Manufacturing’s “Guaranteed Lowest Price” that’s just not true. You CAN
have it all!
This is another reason we’re the largest sign company in North Texas.
The Signs Manufacturing Your-Location
Sales Team's
Personalized Service
No matter what types of signs you are interested in, our sales team, consisting of 11 highly-trained individuals, is at your beck and call.
Let us meet with you in your office, or at your new signs location, or home, or anywhere.
You will probably have a firm quotation for what you want during our meeting; certainly no more than a day later. There are 19 questions you must have answers to before investing in signs. Questions not about the signs themselves, but about how the signs will be perceived, and how long they will take to pay for themselves. Our sales team will bring you a COMPLIMENTARY PROFESSIONAL MARKET SURVEY of your new signage locations. Click on the "Sign Market Research" tab to the left for details.
We can design and build your next sign while maintaining
Social Distancing
Our showroom is open and sanitized so you can safely review the different options available for your new signage.
Also, we have many options to help
design your new look, from collaborating remotely (from your own home
bridged to our design team) to designing with you in our Projection Room, which is large enough to maintain Social Distancing.
Are You a "Visual" Person?
It is difficult to picture what a sign is going to look like. What do you picture when we say "triple-layer multi-colored lighting with a textured backplate?"
Our showroom is designed to solve that problem. Most people are visual ... they need to see
something firsthand to understand what it is and whether it has value to them. Seeing is believing!
Don't buy your sign from a drawing, a slick website, or photo-shopped pictures, when you can actually see and
side-by-side compare REAL sign types,
resolutions, and designs.
Visit Our Unique LED Video Display Showroom
Unique in the entire sign industry, Sunburst Displays™ built an 85’ by 50’ (over 4,000 sq ft) indoor sign lighting laboratory for testing the longevity, visibility, and effectiveness of all the lighted signs we manufacture at our Dallas manufacturing plant.
We have donated the laboratory, and all of its signs, to the Modern-Sign Museum™. The Museum is
open to the public, for FREE, including an LED Video Display Showroom because we realized how important one would be to consumers.
You must determine which display type and LED spacing is best, so that your sign will be successful, considering how you will use it.
Therefore, 6 mm, 8 mm, 10 mm, 12mm, 16mm and 19mm 4+billion-color exposed-LED Balanced Array™, exposed-LED Classic™ pixel-cluster signs, and SMD enclosed-LED signs are always available for you to compare to monotone message centers and monochrome 4-thousand-shade display signs.
We are the only manufacturer of all 3 types of LED signs; Balanced Array™ and Classic™ (Exposed Pixel Cluster), as well as SMD LED Signs™ (Enclosed Pixel Cluster) types of displays.
Also on display are
an economical fixed-message Full-color LED Message Center and a fully self-contained, self-powered portable LED Sign trailer, the LED Sled™.
Don't buy a sign from a drawing, a slick website, or
photo-shopped pictures, when you can actually see and compare real signs.
Live
Showroom Demonstrations of Products that Improve Your Signs
LongLife™ SolarBrite™ Targeted Light™ Large LED System
Sunsational™ Engineering
Sunburst LED Sign's Glare Shield Effectiveness
NASA's Ceramic Vacuum Microsphere Coating
Solarguard™ Protective Coatings
Signlux™ Paint Systems
Solar Finishes™ Bright Reflective White
Lumabrite™ Optical Brighteners
Vandal-Resistant Coatings
Sunburst LED Sign's Programming Software
Sunburst LED Sign's Self-Monitoring
Sunburst LED Sign's Repairability-Adjustability
OptiGard™
Flexible Sign Face Installation Methods
Lighting Options
No one else can offer you this unique opportunity. Be sure to take advantage.
If you don't visit it could cost you thousands in sales every year.
Can you afford not to?
"I almost made a huge mistake by not listening to you and visiting your showroom prior to buying my sign. I thought I knew what I wanted, after listening to so many salespeople...boy, was I wrong. My vision of the sign did not jibe with what it would really turn out to be, even after viewing so many drawings. It was obvious the moment I entered the showroom. If I had stuck to my guns my sign would have been a disaster. I would have wasted a lot of money."
Cecil Drake, Drake Communications
Specifications
Many people selling LED Displays don't, or can't, talk about how and why the sign they are selling is built the way it is.
Click on the "Specifications" tab on the left to go to a page designed to help you ask the right questions.
Free On-Site Demonstrations
Arrange an on-site demonstration today! Demonstrations are available in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex and all of North Texas.
View first-hand the importance of everything we discuss below.
Cost and Pricing Information
Sold wholesale FACTORY-DIRECT to our customers.
"Cost" and
subsequent "Pricing" tabs on the left will help you determine general budget pricing for various
types and sizes of signs and explain our 5 different payment options.
Notice, too, how dealing directly with the manufacturer will save you additional thousands of dollars in sales/use taxes!
The
detailed construction and installation information below, and on tabs to the left, is very important in
developing a sign that will accomplish your goals.
Please contact us to develop an exact plan to meet
your particular needs - for free (see our "Sign Design" page.)
Our professional staff will usually have exact quotations, and exact scale
drawings of your signs installed on your building or property ready for
you the same day we meet with you. (Much faster than the 2 1/2 week
average in our industry.)
If you are planning for the future, please bookmark
our website as a "Favorite" so you can find us when
you are ready.
You May Qualify for a Better Than Free™ Sign
Dependent on your location, Sunburst Displays™ may be able to offer you INCOME from a FREE pole, pylon, monument sign, or electronic message center.
Why Buy Factory-Direct, and from a State-Licensed Company?
Why not buy from a Sign Dealer (also called a Sign Broker or a Sign Store?)
There are literally hundreds of them.
Would you give a car dealer $10,000 and tell him to buy you the best car
he can for the money, sight unseen (or from a drawing?) Don't you think you would get the car that made him
the most?
Do you think you
could meet your needs asking for the cheapest car he can buy?
Why would a sign dealer (sign broker or sign store) be any different? Remember, they are
merely buying a sign from a manufacturer, maybe foreign, to resell to you, usually to resemble a
drawing, making the most money they can.
You need to know
ALL of the details on how your sign will be manufactured, and how it will be installed.
It needs to meet YOUR needs, not the seller's profit goals. What is he
telling the manufacturer you don't need so he can make more money?
Believing "...a sign is a sign" gets you a Yugo instead of a Cadillac.
Remember the Yugo? They didn't last very long, either.
Also, most sign dealers, sign brokers and sign stores cannot legally install
or service an electric sign. Ask to see their license.
Ask to see a manufacturer's license also. A few are not licensed to do
electrical work, either, they also have to hire other companies to install the
signs they make.
Now, who provides the warranty? The manufacturer, the installer, the
salesman, anyone? If the sign was installed illegally
do you think they'll honor their warranty? Did they REALLY obtain your
City sign permit? Is the sign even safe?
As a large, UL listed manufacturer, our name is on all our signs. Just like you,
we can't afford to have a bad sign destroy our business. We have to care,
particularly with our Lifetime Warranty*.
If you wonder if a sign-seller can legally install and
service electrical signs through-out Texas go to
http://www.license.state.tx.us/LicenseSearch/,
enter "Electricians" in the "Inquire by License Type" box and the name of the
sign business or person in the "Inquire by Name" box. If they
are not licensed they can not.
Our State
electrical contractor, and electrical sign contractor license
numbers are: TSCL 18015, TSCL 18016, TECL 17503.
So someone can sell you signs and not be licensed to install or service them. You may have to have this done. But unless the electrical signs
you buy are "listed" (U.L. usually) they won't
be allowed to be installed in Texas, a State of Texas Consumer Protection Safety Law designed to insure that signs are safe to use, with a few local city
ordinance exceptions. It is not illegal to sell them to you, however. Buy carefully.
"I had a ****-a-**** (sign company) right across the street … that store's out of business now … I found out they hired some other company to build and install our sign and they did a really #@%&&$ job, the thing has never lit right. ****-a-**** Corporate won't do anything, they say the closed store was an independent franchise, and the sign builder/installer won't fix it, they say we weren't their customer. I need you to come out, tell me what it will cost to get the thing working properly and get it fixed."
Chris Jennings, Jimmy Johns
The Benefits of Buying Sunburst LED Displays™ Factory-Direct
You need answers to these questions before you buy (anything from anyone.) Don’t be a naïve consumer.
Competition
Signs Manufacturing™
Is there a showroom where you can view ALL sign types before you buy?
No
YES
Will the people who built the sign install it?
No
YES
Are the people who will install the sign factory-trained?
No
YES
Is the sign
seller (broker) responsible if the sign is not installed properly?
*
YES
Is the sign
installer responsible if the sign is not installed properly?
*
YES
Does the sign manufacturer provide
Free Warranty Service?
No
YES
Does the sign seller (broker) provide Free Warranty Service?
No
YES
Does the sign installer provide Free Warranty Service?
No
YES
Is there one place to call for ALL services?
No
YES
Does the sign manufacturer provide free training?
Phone (China?)
YES
Does the sign seller (broker) provide free factory training?
No
YES
Do you call the sign seller (broker) with technical/usage questions?
No
YES
Does the sign factory provide free technical access?
Phone (China?)
YES
Where is Tech-support located? Hours (local time?)
?
Dallas
Where do you obtain training for new employees?
?
We come to You
Can you view the sign as it is being made?
No
YES
Can you customize your sign?
No
YES
Does the sign seller (broker) control the manufacturing and installation time table?
No
YES
Are there 2nd and 3rd party profit markups?
YES
No
* A poorly installed EMC can void a factory warranty, leaving YOU to haggle responsibility with the installer and sign seller (broker.) For instance, without a separate grounding electrode being installed during the installation of most LED signs the manufacturer’s warranty is void. Will you know if your installer doesn’t install a grounding electrode? Problems will probably begin to occur months later.
Is the sign installer working for you, or the factory, or only the sign seller (broker?) Who is legally responsible?
Who has the financial ability to remedy accidents and omissions? Single-source responsibility is best. Product liability insurance is good, too.
The Value of “Listed" Signs
Virtually ALL cities, as well as the State of Texas, adopt the National Electric Code as law.
The National Electric Code (NEC) requires that for electrical, structural, and installation safety all electrical signs be "Listed" (tested and labelled with an appropriate Listing Mark.)
Certification (testing and labelling) organizations acceptable in the USA to test to the multitude of Standards signs are required to meet are determined by OSHA.
For you the Listing Mark is insurance. It means that the sign has been tested to insure that it is structurally and electrically safe, and will be installed properly. You benefit from the knowledge that it is not solely us telling you that our signs are safe, this is what the testing laboratories and the US Government says also.
Will your sign be tested and approved for safe use in a Wet (Outdoor) location? Not if it’s not Listed!
Underwriters Laboratories (“UL” Listing Mark) and Intertek (“ETL” Listing Mark – originally Edison Testing Laboratory founded by Thomas Edison) are the premier certification organizations and 80% of all things electrical are tested by them.
If the sign you are purchasing does not have a ETL or UL Listing Mark label the sign is probably not legal to install, anywhere in Texas.
There are a few local city ordinance exceptions.
Buy carefully.
Intertek is over twice the size of UL, and has a greater global presence. UL is the largest in the USA. We have both companies test and apply Listing Marks to various signs.
We are the third oldest ETL Listed sign company in Texas. ( File #4007685) (One of the two older companies makes lighted scoreboards, the other makes lighted office door signs.)
There are many sign companies that pretend to be Listed, but are not!
Incidentally, ISO (International Organization of Standardization) Standards, such as ISO 9001, are NOT electrical Listings (similar to a UL or ETL Listing) that allow a sign to be installed in Texas. That said, components in our electronic signs also meet ISO 9001 and 2008 standards.
Underwriter’s Laboratory and Intertek do NOT judge the appearance, appeal, or the longevity of a product. This is why our many years of experience serving international, national, regional and local customers, and our investment so that we can apply the knowledge we’ve gained, will give you a superior product which will impress your customers for years to come.
Free Factory Tour
Come and see the array of equipment
and tools, and the facility dedicated to making good
signs.
Contact a sales consultant to arrange a
plant tour.
State Licensed Sign Installation and Sign Service
We are a full-service sign company.
We
provide
sign site surveys,
sign permits,
sign installation
and
sign maintenance
services for electrical and non-electrical signs for our customers as well as other sign
companies. We
provide this work in Dallas, Fort Worth (DFW), and ALL of
North Texas and Northeast Texas.
State Sign and Electrical License Numbers: TECL17503, TSCL18015, TSCL18016.
Our technicians are also
Quality Certified Signs™ certified. (Click the "Installation
& Service" tab for details.)
"Signs
Manufacturing & (Maintenance) has a BuildZoom
score of 127, which places them above 99% of 222,249 contractors (all contractors of all trades) in
Texas." - BuildZoom
Additionally
We are the "greenest"
sign company in Texas. Click the "Our
Environment" tab on our "About
Us" page to learn about our environmental
efforts.
Would
you like
to be seen on our SignDawgsTV™
Show?
Season 8 of
the reality TV documentary series about Signs Manufacturing™
featuring the signage we create, and the customers we serve
in the DFW Metroplex area of North Texas, is currently being
filmed.
Co-star with William, James, Robert, and the
whole SignDawgs™ crew. Every business ever featured on
SignDawgsTV™continues
to operate successfully. If your business, church, or school,
are interested in appearing in this project be sure to tell your
salesperson so we can immediately arrange for the producers to
contact you.
SignDawgsTV™ is one of YouTube's most
successful series, with 2,000,000+ viewers (we've officially gone
viral+.) Older episodes continue to be viewed over-and-over.
This
could be valuable free advertising for you.
SignDawgsTV™ debuts bi-weekly on
Tuesdays at 5:00 pm.
You can view allSignDawgsTV™
episodes @ SignDawgsTV.com
Ask if you would like to tour the Sea King
Productions™ Studio Building.
·
Signs Manufacturing™ does not provide any
compensation for testimonials.
·
None of the photographs in this website, or in our brochures,
are “photo-shopped.”
·
All images in this website, and in our brochures, are of
signage we both manufactured and installed, unless identified as bad/funny
examples. Some competitor’s websites contain pictures they’ve taken of our
product. Buy carefully.
Business hours are 07.00 a.m. to 5.00 p.m. Monday thru Friday (Central Time) or by Appointment
Office hours are 08.00 a.m. to 5.00 p.m. Monday thru Friday Showroom hours are by Appointment Factory Tours by Appointment TV Studio Tours by Appointment Emergency Service 24/7
Pre-Programmed -
No learning curve.
US Military Specification
Electrical Insulating Coating - Protects all interior electronics and electrics.
State Licensed Electrical Sign Contractor – We know our business and do
our job.
Intertek is over twice the size of UL, and has a greater global presence. UL is the largest in the USA. We have both companies test and apply Listing Marks to various signs.
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