I put mine together yesterday. It was shipped only in its retail packaging (insufficient tape, loose flaps), no external shipping box, and the box got really dented and gouged in several places, and the internal cardboard support lattice was basically shredded from within so that the parts were just floating around inside. Some screws and a hex key were missing.
There was a fine powdery film everywhere within the box, maybe a residue from the powder coated steel, and also a gritty white crust on the T-handle that secures the horizontal bar, nasty like dried toothpaste. Every adjustment bolt on every pivot is INCREDIBLY TIGHT. I literally had to stand on the pivots and step on the hex key to even get the bolts to budge a little bit. And it was not like loosening an overtightened screw, the bolts are still stiff even now. Adjusting these bolts while mounted seems dangerous, so get the tension right before mounting.
Anyone else have these problems? Or did I just get a bad sample?
Otherwise, I really like this stand. Quite solid and more features than I expected. The description should be corrected to clarify some details.
The adjustable pivots support not only tilt (up/down angle) and pan (left/right angle), but also rotate (portrait/landscape).
The range of motion for rotation is 180 degrees (not 360). If you don't need the monitor to turn upside down, you can install it with the mount already half-spun, thus giving you freedom to spin the screen clockwise or widdershins depending on which side you want the cables to exit from in portrait mode.
Rotation isn't mentioned on the box or instructions, maybe because the half inch bolthead on the face of the mount requires a real wrench instead of the included hex key, so not exactly tool-less design. Tilt tension only needs to be adjusted at the one righthand bolt as instructed, but pan tension requires adjusting the top and bottom bolts.
All three (not two) pivots have the clever quick release for horizontal sliding or easy detachment from the arm, but only two pivots have vertical height adjustment, with a range of two inches up or down from centerline, so you can line up monitors with different screen or bezel sizes. However, the height adjustment mechanism adds a half inch of thickness to the pivot itself, so you might be unable to get the fronts of all three screens to lie gapless and flush with each other if you wanted a flat arrangement instead of with the side screens angled inward. Ergotech sells parts separately, so you can order matching pivots as needed, or even expand to six screens with additional arms and posts.
The side arms can angle in or out 90 degrees (180 total), so you can box yourself in or turn a screen to face a neighbor (but take care to not let the stand fall backwards). This also means plenty of clearance to rotate portrait/landscape without banging into an adjacent screen.
For the people asking about configurations using dual monitors, monitors larger than 27 inches, P-L-P, etc., I think the hardware is beefy enough to support the weight of 30 inchers, so it'll mostly depend on the angle of the side arms. At maximum horizontal telescoped extension and no angle on the arms, the total width is 56.5 inches, so add up the width of your center screen and half the widths of each side screen. The pivot brackets are 1.5 inches wide and can slide left and right easily, so personally, I wouldn't want them too close to the ends of the arms without something to secure them. The center segment is 25 inches wide, so you may not be able to angle the side monitor inwards too much before bumping into the side of a 30 inch monitor. But keep in mind, all the pivots can be mounted nearly anywhere on the horizontal bars except at the hinges, so a wide middle monitor can be shifted a little off-center to accomodate more arm angle on one side. The same goes for using just dual monitors, as long as the group is safely balanced over the base.
It also comes with 3 plastic clip-on brackets for cable management (2 for horizontal, 1 for vertical post), yay! It's only been a day, but the Ergotech Freestanding Triple Monitor Stand feels robust and well designed so far. Recommended.
There was a fine powdery film everywhere within the box, maybe a residue from the powder coated steel, and also a gritty white crust on the T-handle that secures the horizontal bar, nasty like dried toothpaste. Every adjustment bolt on every pivot is INCREDIBLY TIGHT. I literally had to stand on the pivots and step on the hex key to even get the bolts to budge a little bit. And it was not like loosening an overtightened screw, the bolts are still stiff even now. Adjusting these bolts while mounted seems dangerous, so get the tension right before mounting.
Anyone else have these problems? Or did I just get a bad sample?
Otherwise, I really like this stand. Quite solid and more features than I expected. The description should be corrected to clarify some details.
The adjustable pivots support not only tilt (up/down angle) and pan (left/right angle), but also rotate (portrait/landscape).
The range of motion for rotation is 180 degrees (not 360). If you don't need the monitor to turn upside down, you can install it with the mount already half-spun, thus giving you freedom to spin the screen clockwise or widdershins depending on which side you want the cables to exit from in portrait mode.
Rotation isn't mentioned on the box or instructions, maybe because the half inch bolthead on the face of the mount requires a real wrench instead of the included hex key, so not exactly tool-less design. Tilt tension only needs to be adjusted at the one righthand bolt as instructed, but pan tension requires adjusting the top and bottom bolts.
All three (not two) pivots have the clever quick release for horizontal sliding or easy detachment from the arm, but only two pivots have vertical height adjustment, with a range of two inches up or down from centerline, so you can line up monitors with different screen or bezel sizes. However, the height adjustment mechanism adds a half inch of thickness to the pivot itself, so you might be unable to get the fronts of all three screens to lie gapless and flush with each other if you wanted a flat arrangement instead of with the side screens angled inward. Ergotech sells parts separately, so you can order matching pivots as needed, or even expand to six screens with additional arms and posts.
The side arms can angle in or out 90 degrees (180 total), so you can box yourself in or turn a screen to face a neighbor (but take care to not let the stand fall backwards). This also means plenty of clearance to rotate portrait/landscape without banging into an adjacent screen.
For the people asking about configurations using dual monitors, monitors larger than 27 inches, P-L-P, etc., I think the hardware is beefy enough to support the weight of 30 inchers, so it'll mostly depend on the angle of the side arms. At maximum horizontal telescoped extension and no angle on the arms, the total width is 56.5 inches, so add up the width of your center screen and half the widths of each side screen. The pivot brackets are 1.5 inches wide and can slide left and right easily, so personally, I wouldn't want them too close to the ends of the arms without something to secure them. The center segment is 25 inches wide, so you may not be able to angle the side monitor inwards too much before bumping into the side of a 30 inch monitor. But keep in mind, all the pivots can be mounted nearly anywhere on the horizontal bars except at the hinges, so a wide middle monitor can be shifted a little off-center to accomodate more arm angle on one side. The same goes for using just dual monitors, as long as the group is safely balanced over the base.
It also comes with 3 plastic clip-on brackets for cable management (2 for horizontal, 1 for vertical post), yay! It's only been a day, but the Ergotech Freestanding Triple Monitor Stand feels robust and well designed so far. Recommended.