The Pharos Designer TPS (Touch Panel Station) is an elegant interface with a customisable, capacitive touchscreen, compatible with any Pharos Designer Controller. Available in black and in white, in convenient 5″ and spacious 8″ versions.
The TPS are supported with Pharos Designer controllers running v2.10 or later.
Elegant interaction with room to play
The front panel is a seamless, uninterrupted glass plate, giving an elegant touch experience. Themes and templates provide inspiration for setting out controls across multiple pages. And, with a unique and innovative universal mounting solution, the TPS will be easy to wall mount in your installation, regardless of region.
The hardware features a responsive touch experience behind a chic, uninterrupted glass face
The TPS can be used with the full range of Pharos Designer Controllers, providing elegant interaction wherever it’s needed
Interface controls can be altered during live operation through the Designer Trigger functionality
Fully customisable interface, created in the free Pharos Designer 2 software
Features
Touch Interface
The vivid colour capacitive touchscreen makes navigating your project’s controls appealing and intuitive. It’s quick and easy to activate presets, manual overrides, or even use a custom colour picker to personalise your lighting. The TPS puts control of your Pharos system at your fingertips.
Customisable
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.
Touchscreen Hardware
The new and improved TPS is designed using superior, up-to-date technology. The screens have a high DPI, with a resolution of 800×480 in the 5” display, 1024×768 in an 8” display. And, with updated technology, comes greater responsiveness with the interface, enabling five-point multi-touch, giving much smoother transitions, higher screen fidelity and more processing power, allowing more pages to be loaded.
Flexible
Be limited by your design brief, not your interface. Whether you want to show a few simple buttons, or use custom branded graphics, the touch panel supports it all. It is also capable of supporting any font, including those with extended character sets; e.g. Chinese, Korean, Japanese.
Installation
The TPS ships with an innovative wall-mounting system. The Universal Mounting Plate can be fitted to a wide range of regulation backboxes, including UK, US and EU. The TPS fits to the 5″ or 8″ mounting plate via a bayonet twist system which is not immediately obvious to an observer. This keeps it securely fastened with a tool-free installation, and the MicroSD card remains securely out of reach whilst installed.
Scalable
Multiple Touch Devices can be combined with one or more Pharos controllers on the same network to build the ideal system for your installation. Each Touch Device is easily programmed using our Designer 2 software. Read more
Designer
Create interface pages in Pharos Designer 2 at the same time you programme the controller, and upload in one simple operation.
Universal mounting system should fit any regulation backbox
Network
Works with any Designer Controller, and links to it using standard protocols over an Ethernet network.
Power over Ethernet
Easily placed at any remote location and only needs a single Ethernet cable that provides both power and data.
User Interface
Provides a custom user interface to any Pharos Designer control system
TECHNICAL INFORMATION & DOWNLOADS
TPS 5 Datasheet
Click on the link below to download the datasheet.
TPS 8 Datasheet
Click on the link below to download the datasheet.
Capabilities
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. Arabic, Chinese, Cyrillic, Japanese and Korean.
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 Designer Trigger, so button states, graphics, and captions can change according to any number of preset triggers
Secure Access
Keypad for PIN-code entry; multiple user levels
Commissioning
Commissioned with Pharos Designer 2.10 or later
Interfaces
Ethernet
RJ45 socket for 10/100Base-TX Ethernet with Link/Data LEDs; Static IP or DHCP
Touchscreen TPS 5
5” capacitive five-point multi-touch; 800×480 24bpp; 650 cd/m2
Touchscreen TPS 8
8” capacitive five-point multi-touch; 1024×768 24bpp; 500 cd/m2
System Limits
Remote Device system limit count includes all RIO, EDN, TPS and BPS in project.
In Project
Maximum 200 remote devices across multiple controllers in a single Pharos Designer project.
Per Controller
Maximum remote device limits assigned to controllers depend on controller type:
64 for each LPC 1, 2, 4, and TPC
100 for each LPC X, VLC and VLC+
Specifications
Certifications
CE compliant, UKCA compliant, UL/cUL listed.
Power TPS 5
PoE (IEEE802.3af, Class 0), 7W typical
Power TPS 8
PoE (IEEE802.3af, Class 0), 10W typical
Required
Configuration
Pharos Designer 2.10 or later
Data Storage
Removable MicroSD Card (supplied)
Temperature
0°C to 50°C (32°F to 122°F)
Humidity
10-90% relative, non-condensing
Ingress
IP40
Physical TPS 5
Wall mounted, partly recessed with a custom mounting plate that supports UK 1 & 2-gang 35mm, EU 35mm or US 2.5″ backbox (mounting plate included)
14 x 9.7 x 2.8 cm (5.5 x 3.8 x 1.1 in)
0.25 kg (0.6 lbs) (ex. mounting plate)
Shipping TPS 5
19.5 x 15 x 7.5 cm (8 x 6 x 3 in)
0.5 kg (1.1 lbs)
Physical TPS 8
Wall mounted, partly recessed with a custom mounting plate that supports UK & EU 2-gang 35mm, or US 2-gang and 3-gang 2.5″ backbox (mounting plate included)
20 x 16 x 3.2 cm (7.9 x 6.3 x 1.3 in)
0.7 kg (1.6 lbs) (ex. mounting plate)
Shipping TPS 8
32 x 24 x 4.5 cm (12.6 x 9.4 x 1.7 in)
1.1 kg (2.5 lbs)
Recovery
Hardware watchdog and recessed reset button
Warranty
5 years
Order Code & Variants
TPS 5 B
Designer Touch Panel Station 5” Black (Wall mount touchscreen interface)
TPS 5 W
Designer Touch Panel Station 5” White (Wall mount touchscreen interface)
TPS 8 B
Designer Touch Panel Station 8” Black (Wall mount touchscreen interface)
TPS 8 W
Designer Touch Panel Station 8” White (Wall mount touchscreen interface)
Pharos Universal Mounting Plate 5″/8″ included
If no colour is specified, Black will be shipped by default
Pharos Designer Controller required
Colour Information
Jet Black
Bayblend T65XF (UL94 HB) RAL 9005 jet black
Signal White
Bayblend T65XF (UL94 HB) RAL 9003 signal white
For information on the original TPS please see this page