Scene-setting shortcuts

Quick Setup options in the user interface enhance the power of each D40 or D60 LED wash fixture for use in a range of applications. These pre-set parameters determine how the light should perform. Every setting can be controlled via the user interface on the back of the fixture and by remote-control through any RDM-enabled controller – including ETC’s line of consoles. Each operating mode may be further tweaked by going under the Advanced Mode.

Stage Mode
Gives your LED fixture the look and quality of light of a tungsten fixture. This mode enables the tungsten fade curve and the red shift of a tungsten filament. You know the Surprise Pink you get with tungsten? Surprise, you can recreate it here, to match with other fixtures in the rig. The dimming curve is incandescent.

In a regulated power-output setting, Stage Mode turns the droop compensation on. This allows the fixture to adjust for LED heating, so each cue you set holds color and intensity whether the fixture is warm or cool. Strobing is turned off.

In Stage Mode, you can select EHSI (Enhanced Hue, Saturation, Intensity) color input – basically, 16-bit hue control, eight-bit saturation and intensity. This gives you the most control over your choice of every single spectrum in your color, you might say.

Architectural Mode
Geared for outdoor usage. In this protected output setting, this mode adjusts power levels to protect the LED diodes from droop – or losing power – through hot or cold environmental factors. This ensures that the product will always turn on and that the chosen color remains set.

Color is set to HSI (Hue, Saturation, Intensity) and the dimming curve is standard. The strobe function is turned off because your power outputs are busy keeping your power levels adjusted – they’re not going to let loose with a wild energy boost. And FYI, the thermal shutdown warning is visible from the user interface and from the front of the fixture, as well.

High-Impact Mode
Supplies the maximum output for short durations. In a Boost Output setting, this mode shuts down the thermal warning, turns off droop compensation and enables the maximum light output available for strobing, quick bumps, fades without buffering, and other high-intensity effects. With the Red Shift off, the look is of a digital light.

A simple RGB color-profile allows the Desire LED fixtures to match other RGB fixtures on the rig.

Studio Mode
This input mode is available on all Desire fixtures, regardless of type. When set to Studio Mode, the fixture will automatically create white light adjustable via three DMX parameters, or at the local controls on the fixture. The adjustable parameters are intensity, color temperature and tint. When DMX is disconnected, the same settings may be adjusted manually at the LCD and by the controls on the rear of the fixture, meaning that you can operate the fixture with no console at all.

General Mode
For all general lighting situations. Color is in the classic eight-channel Selador mode. The output setting is regulated, the dimming curve is standard, red shift is disabled, and strobing is off.

Further tweaking can be accomplished under the Advanced Menu items. All Desire luminaires can work in Stand Alone Mode – an easy, user-friendly manner of operation. Using the interface on the rear of the fixture, users can set the luminaire to run preset designs (no DMX console required).

No console is necessary to run the Desire fixtures in Master-Slave Mode, either. By connecting luminaires with DMX cables and designating one fixture as Master, all of the linked units will run commands programmed into the Master.