Hey Quasimodo, ever get a wee bit uncomfortable chained to that trading desk hours on end?
I agree with a trader here who suggests an effective viewing height for monitor displays is top edge at a couple of inches above eye level.
Using That Spec; if a two high by 3 wide 6-screen setup were placed forward of a trader, then a comfortable posture and viewing angle similar to that piloting a John Deer combine (totally ergonomic at around $300K) is possible. Get on down to your JD dealer and check one out, you can sit in them for free.
It would be interesting for someone who has a 6-screen rack-setup available to play around with; to do the experiment... to support the rack such that it brings the center monitor's top to about seated-eye-level and then aim the rest of the assembly accordingly from there.
How's it feel to view this array after a few hours?
Yep, that desk has to go in order to implement this positioning.
For test purposes, mock up with banker's boxes from Office Max, $10 for ten around tax time, chair-arm height horizontal surfaces on both sides of the chair to hold mousepad, note pad, coffee and what-not...
and you're left with a homeless keyboard that ends up in the lap, but this is just for a trading session or two, buck up.
Dealing with the keyboard is step n+1, and another story.
Step one: How's it feel to view this array after a few hours?
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If the position is promising, Captain's chair with fold down arms and integrated hinged keyboard and platforms - in the manor of writing platforms attached to seats in auditorium lecture halls - wouldn't be so difficult to hack onto a captain's chair out of a wrecked new luxury van.
While you're up in that cockpit, check out the joystick and button console controls that are mounted on the right armrest. These rigs take hands-on management for extended periods not unlike trading.
http://www.deere.com/en_AU/equipment/ag/combines/70series/cab.html
http://agriculture.newholland.com/u...Pages/CabandComfort_details.aspx#prod_details
Please don't make me gotta trade my ass off, buy a Deere and ductape monitor displays to the cockpit enclosure.
Little help here? lol
How's it feel to view this array after a few hours?
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PS: If implementation functions well and all that's harsh is mellowed, why not fold in the concept behind one of these. - http://sitincomfort.com/perfectchairs.html
new problem... how to drink my cofee, lol
Ok, bring out the servo gimbals...
I agree with a trader here who suggests an effective viewing height for monitor displays is top edge at a couple of inches above eye level.
Using That Spec; if a two high by 3 wide 6-screen setup were placed forward of a trader, then a comfortable posture and viewing angle similar to that piloting a John Deer combine (totally ergonomic at around $300K) is possible. Get on down to your JD dealer and check one out, you can sit in them for free.
It would be interesting for someone who has a 6-screen rack-setup available to play around with; to do the experiment... to support the rack such that it brings the center monitor's top to about seated-eye-level and then aim the rest of the assembly accordingly from there.
How's it feel to view this array after a few hours?
Yep, that desk has to go in order to implement this positioning.
For test purposes, mock up with banker's boxes from Office Max, $10 for ten around tax time, chair-arm height horizontal surfaces on both sides of the chair to hold mousepad, note pad, coffee and what-not...
and you're left with a homeless keyboard that ends up in the lap, but this is just for a trading session or two, buck up.
Dealing with the keyboard is step n+1, and another story.
Step one: How's it feel to view this array after a few hours?
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
If the position is promising, Captain's chair with fold down arms and integrated hinged keyboard and platforms - in the manor of writing platforms attached to seats in auditorium lecture halls - wouldn't be so difficult to hack onto a captain's chair out of a wrecked new luxury van.
While you're up in that cockpit, check out the joystick and button console controls that are mounted on the right armrest. These rigs take hands-on management for extended periods not unlike trading.
http://www.deere.com/en_AU/equipment/ag/combines/70series/cab.html
http://agriculture.newholland.com/u...Pages/CabandComfort_details.aspx#prod_details
Please don't make me gotta trade my ass off, buy a Deere and ductape monitor displays to the cockpit enclosure.
Little help here? lol
How's it feel to view this array after a few hours?
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
PS: If implementation functions well and all that's harsh is mellowed, why not fold in the concept behind one of these. - http://sitincomfort.com/perfectchairs.html
new problem... how to drink my cofee, lol
Ok, bring out the servo gimbals...
Thanks for the tip. I just duct taped my keyboard to the steering wheel for now, seems OK but the spinning bothers me a little, I probably should have welded the steering shaft before I moved it in the house on the carpet. 
I would like to add a refrigerator like the one in the New Holland (I NEED that), maybe next weekend. 
