00:00If you're building a machine, a panel, or anything that needs a screen a human actually touches,
00:04the display is where half your budget quietly disappears.
00:08So I went and dug through the listings to find the best value HMI touchscreens for industrial
00:13automation right now, 5 of them, from about 40 bucks to just over 80.
00:17Let's get into it.
00:19First up, the Nexion NX8048P050-011CY.
00:25This is the 5-inch Intelligence Series Capacitive Panel, and the big win here is that it comes
00:29with an enclosure already, no custom bezel, no 3D printing, no mounting headache.
00:34It talks plain TTL serial, so your microcontroller sends simple commands and it draws the UI for you.
00:41At $76.90 with almost 5,000 sold and a 4.8 rating, it's the safe, finished-looking option
00:48if you want something that looks like a real product out of the box.
00:52Next, the Waveshare ESP32 S3 Touch LCD 4.
00:56This one's my pick for tinkerers.
00:59You get a 4-inch 480x480 touchscreen, but it's not just a screen, it's a full ESP32 S3
01:05dev board with LVGL running on it, plus Canon RS-485 built-in.
01:10That means you can drive it directly, no separate controller needed, and it fits straight into
01:15industrial buses.
01:17$40.85, nearly 5,000 sold, and a perfect 5-star rating.
01:23Honestly, that's a lot of hardware for the money.
01:26Then there's the EA-043A from Samcun, a 4.3-inch, 480x272 human-machine interface.
01:34This is the classic, no-nonsense industrial HMI, programmable with the manufacturer's software,
01:40made for panel mounting, and designed to sit there running for years.
01:44It's $51.44, with 4,787 sold and a 5-star rating.
01:50If you want a dedicated HMI and you don't want a right firmware for it, this is the one to
01:55grab.
01:56Fourth, the Nexion NX4880E043-011C from the Edge series.
02:03Same 4.3-inch capacitive idea, but this one has a built-in real-time clock, which matters more than
02:08people think, timestamps, schedules, logging, all handled on the display itself.
02:13It ships without an enclosure, so it's cheaper and easier to build into your own front panel.
02:19$49.90, 4,737 sold, 4.9 rating.
02:25Great pick if you already have a housing in mind.
02:28And rounding it out, the Kinko 7-inch.
02:31If you need a bigger screen for a control cabinet, this is the value king.
02:367-inch touch panel, 2 or 3 serial ports depending on the model, and variants that add 4G or Wi
02:42-Fi.
02:43It's the most real industrial HMI of the bunch, and it's $82, with 3,934 sold and a 4.9
02:50rating.
02:51For a full-size panel that's remarkably cheap.
02:55That's the list.
02:57All 5 links are in the description below, so check the current prices before you buy, they move.
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03:08Thanks for watching.
