Topic: Why don’t the LCD (on faders strips) offer more colors?

Why don’t the LCD (on faders strips) offer more colors?

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2019/05/08 at 11:19 pm #83755

Dima
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Not the biggest issue but something I always wondered is why dLive didn’t add more color options to fader strip LCD displays. The only difference between iLive and dLive is the additional “white” color choice. I know a few churches around that have the dLive wondered the same. Don’t get me wrong, I love my dLive but that is something I wonder if anyone has an answer to. Was it just to save on production?

2019/05/09 at 12:09 pm #83756

ahjeff
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The displays have a binary control for each of their R/G/B LEDs, giving 8 combinations including black (‘off’). Allowing more combinations not only requires more complicated hardware, but it also becomes difficult to make sure that two screens that are set to be the same colour do really look the same. On some other desks you will see that if you set several adjacent channels to all be ‘light pink’, or some other option not offered on dLive, they will not actually be the same colour.

2019/05/13 at 11:11 am #83809

sova
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What about intensity? Is is an option? I would welcome if there was dark and light shade of all colors. Maybe it canbe done with display brightness. Like 50% of the glow for darker shade with respect with setting for Strip LCDs brightness setting.

2019/05/23 at 8:23 am #83977

lightingman117
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Is it possible to pwm the LED’s to give other offset colors?

What about the text itself? Can we have inverted colors…?

2019/05/24 at 10:16 am #83991

ahjeff
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You can dim the LCD backlights as a whole, but not individually. You are correct that PWM would be a way to modulate colours individually, but this comes with the pitfalls I mentioned above. A wider variety of colours would require more complicated hardware than exists in the dLive.

2019/06/25 at 8:14 pm #84830

markhadman
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So, why can’t we have orange at least?

2019/06/26 at 7:52 am #84842

ahjeff
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Each backlight LED can be either on or off. Below are the 8 possible combinations, all of which are already available to select:
red
red+blue = magenta
red+green = yellow
red+green+blue = white
green
green+blue = cyan
blue
all off = ‘black’

Hope this helps

– Jeff, A&H
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