Monitor Arm Finder

A monitor arm lifts your screen off its factory stand and onto an adjustable mount - freeing your desk, setting the screen at the right height and distance for a neutral neck, and letting you tilt, rotate, and reposition it (or raise it for standing work) in seconds.

The right arm depends on your monitor's size, weight and VESA mount, how many screens you have, where you want to mount it, and how much height and reach you need. Answer a few quick questions and our ergonomic specialists will personally recommend the monitor arms that fit - free, with no obligation.

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Questions in the meantime? Call us at 888-456-3746.

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How Does a Monitor Arm Finder Help?

Choosing a monitor arm comes down to a few numbers that are easy to get wrong: your monitor's VESA mounting pattern, its weight without the stand, how many screens you are mounting, and how much height and horizontal reach you need. The Monitor Arm Finder collects those details, then our ergonomic specialists personally match arms that physically fit your monitors and mount to your desk - and email you the recommendations, free and with no obligation.

It also captures where you want to mount the arm (clamp, grommet, wall, pole, or ceiling) and whether you sit, stand, or switch between the two, so the recommendation fits your desk and the way you work - not just your monitor. If you are in the San Francisco Bay Area, you can also see monitor arms in person at the ErgoDirect showroom in San Carlos, California - call 888-456-3746.

FAQ - Choosing the Right Monitor Arm

A monitor arm clamps or mounts to your desk (or a wall or pole) and holds your monitor on an adjustable arm instead of its factory stand. It frees the desk surface underneath, lets you set the screen at the correct height and distance for neutral neck posture, and makes it easy to tilt, rotate, or move the screen - including raising it for standing work.

Most monitors are compatible if they have a VESA mounting pattern - four threaded holes on the back in a square or rectangle. Check the pattern (commonly 75x75 mm or 100x100 mm), confirm your monitor's weight is within the arm's rated range, and you are set. Monitors without VESA holes can usually use a VESA adapter kit. See the VESA guide below.

Measure the distance in millimeters between the four mounting holes on the back of your monitor - horizontally and vertically. That is your VESA size. Small and mid-size monitors are usually 75x75 or 100x100 mm; large or heavy monitors use 200x100 or 200x200 mm. Most quality arms support 75x75 and 100x100, and larger patterns often need an adapter plate.

Every arm has a rated weight range, and the monitor's weight (without its stand) must fall inside it. Gas-spring and mechanical-spring arms are tuned to the monitor's weight, so a screen that is too light or too heavy for the arm will not hold position. Check your monitor's spec sheet for weight, then match it to the arm's range - the Monitor Arm Finder does this for you.

Yes - multi-monitor arms hold two, three, or more screens on a single mount, in a row or stacked. The key limits are the combined weight and each monitor's size, since screens must physically fit side by side without colliding as they rotate. Tell us how many monitors and their size and weight, and we will recommend an arm and configuration that works.

A C-clamp grips the back edge of your desk and needs no holes - the most common choice. A grommet mount uses an existing hole through the desktop for a cleaner, more secure hold. A bolt-through mount is the strongest but makes a permanent hole. Wall, pole, and ceiling mounts suit fixed installations or where desk space is limited. Your desk type and how permanent you want the mount decide which is best.

A monitor arm works on a sit-stand desk and moves up and down with it. If you have a fixed desk but want to alternate sitting and standing, choose an arm with a large vertical travel range (a sit-stand arm) so the screen itself can rise and lower. The finder asks about your desk so we match the right amount of height adjustment.

Heavy and ultrawide monitors need an arm with a higher weight rating and, for ultrawides, enough support and stiffness to hold a wide panel steady without sag or wobble. Confirm the monitor's weight without its stand and its VESA pattern, then choose an arm rated above that weight. Note it in the finder's requirements box and our specialists will match a heavy-duty or ultrawide-rated arm.

Getting Monitor Arm Fit Right

Three details decide whether an arm will work with your monitor. Check these before you buy - or answer them in the finder and we will check for you.

Check Your VESA Pattern

  1. Look at the back of your monitor for four threaded screw holes in a square or rectangle.
  2. Measure the horizontal and vertical distance between the hole centers, in millimeters.
  3. That is your VESA size - usually 75x75 or 100x100 mm; large monitors use 200x100 or 200x200 mm.

No VESA holes? A VESA adapter kit usually solves it - tell us your monitor and we will confirm.

Check Weight & Reach

  1. Find your monitor's weight without the stand on the manufacturer's spec sheet - the arm holds the panel, not the factory base.
  2. Pick an arm whose rated weight range includes your monitor; gas-spring arms are tuned to the weight.
  3. Decide how much height and horizontal reach you need - and whether you want to raise the screen for standing.

Too light or too heavy for the arm and it will not hold position - matching the range is what keeps the screen where you set it.

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