A resilient gas pressure spring in a stable construction including sufficient mounting kit for a table or work surface, 360 ° swiveling and pivot function – if you are looking for such products for one or two monitors, where the load capacity must also sometimes be 8 kg (or more), then it gets tight. Well, my office furniture dealer has something like that on offer for a good three-figure sum, of course, but if you want something a bit cheaper, you’ll have to search hard – especially for models that can support two monitors independently of each other. By chance I got the tip through an old acquaintance to try it with Rockstable. However, they are not available at the online retailer with the capital A, so I went other ways. More about that later.
The noname monitor arm that we already tested has unfortunately disappeared from the scene and is no longer available. The following two pictures show the current situation in one of my lab rooms and the unfortunate situation of giving away a not insignificant part of the workspace as well as affecting the visibility of the screen contents. You can live with around 50 to 60 euros per monitor if the product is good. However, most cheap stuff only goes up to about 7 kilos per arm and that’s too tight in my case. Let’s start with the workstation for the 3D scanner and the thermal measurements. That’s how it looked until recently:
You can see it already, this is rubbish. Attached to the wall including holes would also be pointless, because I wanted it much more flexible. How versatile, you will see in a moment. The choice fell on the RS-MM010B from Rockstable, which currently costs just under 60 euros gross. I would have liked to have it a tenner cheaper, but the search sucks.
And on the other side of the room, the second monitor for the oscilloscope and the heavy 32″ Eizo monitor for the VGA measuring station were interfering. This monitor weighs in at a hefty 11 kilos, oops. Right here I had already tested another solution (28 Euros at Amazon) and suffered a terrific shipwreck, because the monitor stayed on the ground. Despite full-bodied promises, the construction was probably not designed for this purpose. Four kilos yes, but 11? Here we see the working environment before the conversion, where the work surfaces are once again senselessly blocked.
So how do you actually get this screen armada into the air? That’s exactly why I picked the RS-MM011B from Rockstable, which is designed as a double arm, so to speak, and gives each monitor its own individual life. Both monitor arms are specified for 8 kilos per monitor, but only the Eizo weighs over 11 kilos. Since the parts are interchangeable and the double arm consists of two identical single arms except for the table mount, I first tested the heavy Eizo on the single arm. Since that went, I still tried to fathom the maximum limit and hung various supports on the top. At just under 15 kilos, the arm then slowly but surely gave way and the monitor lowered down.
At 99.90 euros, we at least remain in the double-digit range, albeit only just. In relation, the double arm is therefore cheaper than the single solution. After all. I am sure that this test will be able to answer the many questions that I have been asked again and again in the meantime, also as feedback on the test at that time. Of course, neither of Rockstable’s products are absolutely perfect, so you’d have to go to a professional. But you only ever buy what you really need and nothing for the vanity gallery. From this point of view, the rebuilt lab and the gain in space and convenience were worth a review, even if such a thing is rather niche. But at the latest when you find yourself standing in front of a cluttered table, reality catches up with you all the harder.
Nice side-effect: Today you can see how it looks like with me when I’m not cleaning up for some big shots and what I’m doing where. All earthly problems like lack of space and overbuilt areas are included. Reality from the lab also has its charm and it also fits in with Friday, when you don’t expect scientific analyses, but rather light fare.
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