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TPC

TPC

The award-winning Pharos Designer TPC (Touch Panel Controller) is an elegant touch screen lighting controller with sleek styling, advanced lighting control playback engine and fully integrated user interface with vast design potential.

Technical Details

Customisable control

With control of playback selection and lighting levels at your fingertips, you can gracefully transition between scenes, timelines, effects and pixel-mapped media. The customisable touch screen user interface lets you create multiple pages of lighting controls, configure their appearance and get immediate visual feedback.

Multiple Pharos Designer Controllers can be used together and will synchronise automatically

Additional integration options are supported by our range of Pharos Designer Remote Devices, IO Modules and the EXT

Installations can be managed locally with the built-in web server, and from anywhere in the world via Pharos Cloud

Fully customisable interface, created in the free Pharos Designer 2 software

Features

Touch Panel Interface

Touchscreen user interface is fully customisable using the free Pharos Designer 2 software. Create multiple pages of lighting controls including buttons, sliders, keypads and colour pickers, and configure their appearance and visual feedback. Make it eye-catching by importing your own graphics or picking from one of our attractive themes.

Designer Engine

Based on individually controllable and independently running timelines and scenes, the intelligent Designer Engine gives you complete control, letting you build dynamic, precise, fully customisable pre-programmed lighting displays, all while giving you the freedom of real-time manual overrides, flexible multi-zone control, prioritisation and more. Read more

Designer Trigger

Designer Trigger is a rules engine that uses conditional logic and a broad range of interfaces and protocols so you can control your lighting with responsive, reactive programming. Send and receive any command, to and from any system. Conditional logic is supported, along with a powerful built-in scripting language for unlimited flexibility. Read more

Remote Management

Future-proof your lighting projects by connecting your Designer controllers to Pharos Cloud. This allows remote, but direct, control of your controllers from anywhere in the world, letting you check the status, fire triggers, schedule events, upload new projects and much more. All through one portal, accessible at your own Internet domain. Read more


Scalable

The right fit for every installation. Multiple Designer controllers can be seamlessly linked together to work as one via a standard Ethernet network giving impressive scalability. For additional integration options simply add Remote Devices to further extend the network. Whether one controller or many, it’s all easily programmed using our Designer 2 software. Read more


Designer Mapping

Design the big picture; control every pixel. Create a 2D map of your fixtures within the Designer 2 software, then use Designer Mapping to create visually striking effects or play video across the entire LED array. Powerful controls allow you to build maps fast with pixel precise adjustment. Read more


Flexible

Be limited by your design brief, not your lighting control system. Our products support a vast range of different fixture types and can output multiple DMX-over-Ethernet (eDMX) lighting protocols at the same time.


The TPC is available in a range of different coloured bezels and overlays

Interface

Customisable, 4.3″ capacitive touch panel.

Capacity

512 channels of eDMX output.

Power over Ethernet

One convenient PoE network connection for power and data.

Integration

Can integrate with the full range of Pharos Designer Controllers and Remote Devices.


Unsure which controller to choose? Learn more about the LPC & VLC families here

TECHNICAL INFORMATION & DOWNLOADS

TPC Datasheet

Click on the link below to download the datasheet.

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Download Software

Download the latest version of our Designer software.

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Comparison Chart

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TPC Isometric Diagram
Supported Fixtures

LEDs

LEDs in any colour configuration (RGB, RGBW, 8 bit, 16 bit, tuneable white)

Automated

Moving heads, yokes or scanners

Generic

Downlights, spotlights, uplights, etc. via controllable dimmers, relays or ballasts

Fountain Jets

Fountain jets for fountain animation or other animatronics

Fixture Library

Pharos offers an online fixture library with over 20,000 fixture profiles, for easy download of your luminaires

Output

sACN

ANSI E1.31 (with per fixture priority)

Art-Net

Art-Net, Art-Net 2, Art-Net 3, Art-Net 4 (configurable broadcast override)

KiNET

KiNET V1 (DMX out) and V2 (Port out); PDS/Data Enabler discovery

Pathport

Pathway Connectivity protocol

DMX512

Via the EDN, EXT or second port on LPC 1

EDN

Can natively integrate with and output DMX through the ports of the EDN

SPI

Supports synchronous and asynchronous serial data output via the EDN + SDI

RDM

Via EXT, supports discovery and addressing via Pharos Designer 2 software

DALI

Via EXT or RIO D 

Scalable

Synchronises with up to 40 Pharos Designer Controllers over network

Simultaneous

Multiple protocols can be in operation simultaneously. Limited by patched channels, not universes used

Triggering & Integration

Startup

Commences programmed playback automatically on receiving power

Touchscreen

Buttons, sliders, colour picker, etc

Clock

Battery-backed real-time clock for calendar and time-based triggers

Astronomical

Sunrise/Sunset/Twilight and Lunar phases

Temperature

Trigger on changes or entering a range

Ethernet

UDP, TCP, Multicast; send/receive any Ethernet message

eDMX

sACN or Art-Net

DALI

Trigger on any message, via EXT or RIO D

Serial Data

RS232 via EXT; RS232 or RS485 via RIO; send/receive free syntax in ASCII, HEX or decimal

MIDI

MIDI Notes, SysEx or Timecode

Timecode

Linear Timecode via RIO A (SMPTE, Film, EBU, NTSC)

Audio Level

Stereo 30-band spectrum analysis via RIO A

Inputs

Contact closure, active low, active high or 0-24V analog level via EXT or RIOs

Web Interface

Built-in or custom designed

Wall Stations

Integrate with BPS and TPS

Conditions

Full conditional logic support

Scripting

Lua scripting for total flexibility

IO Modules

Supports our extensive IO Module library for easy integration

Scalable

Supports Pharos Designer Remote Devices

Orientation

Portrait or landscape

Layouts

Free editable layouts

Pages

Any number of pages, although performance may be affected by complexity and number

Navigation

Convenient and custom navigation via configurable navigation bars

Fonts

Custom font support, including fonts with extended character sets e.g. Chinese, Korean, Japanese

Themes

Wide selection of themes available to download, or create your own with Designer’s theme editor

Controls

A wide array of customisable buttons, sliders, colour pickers, labels, keypads and clocks

Flexible integration

Fully integrated with Pharos Trigger, so button states, graphics, and captions can change according to any number of preset triggers

Infra-red

Learning IR allows any standard remote control to be used to activate button presses/state changes

Secure access

Keypad for PIN-code entry; multiple user levels

Commissioning

Commissioned with Pharos Designer 2 software

Specifications

Certifications

CE compliant, UKCA compliant, ETL/cETL listed, may be used as part of a Title 24 compliant lighting control system

Power

PoE (IEEE802.3af, Class 2) 4W typical

Data Storage

Removable SD Card (supplied)

Temperature

0°C to 50°C (32°F to 122°F)

Humidity

10-50% relative, non-condensing

Ingress

IP40

Physical

Wall mounted, partly recessed in UK 2-gang 35mm or custom US 2.5” backbox (supplied separately)

Weight

0.25 kg (0.55 lbs)

Shipping

20 x 15 x 12 cm (8″ x 6″ x 5″)
0.6 kg (1.3 lbs)

Recovery

Hardware watchdog and recessed reset button

Warranty

5 years

Interfaces

Ethernet

RJ45 socket for 10/100Base-TX Ethernet with Link/Data LEDs; Fixed IP or DHCP; Dual IP address for eDMX

Touchscreen

4.3” capacitive touch; 480×272 24bpp; 340 cd/m2; magnetic overlay

IR Sensor

Learning IR sensor for remote control

Temperature

Built-in ambient temperature sensor

Order Code & Variants

TPC BB

Designer Touch Panel Controller Black-­on-­Black (512 channels eDMX)

TPC CC

Designer Touch Panel Controller Cream-­on-­Cream (512 channels eDMX)

TPC WW

Designer Touch Panel Controller White-­on-­White (512 channels eDMX)

EXT

Designer Extension for TPC connectivity (DMX, DALI, IO, serial, mains-powered)

If no colour is specified, TPC BB will be shipped by default

Downloads:

TPC Datasheet

TPC Specifications

TPC Backbox Dimensions

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