Button Beep; Menu Navigation; Enter And Navigate Submenus; Editing The Parameters - Nixie Clock Nocrotec Benutzerhandbuch

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7. Button Beep

If a button is pressed you shall hear a short beep.

8. Menu Navigation

There are 2 main menus.
- Main menu 1: Setting time and date
- Main menu 2: Setting operating functions
If in display mode, button 1 is pressed long time (1
second), main menu 1 shall be entered.
If in display mode, button 1 is pressed shortly main
menu 2 shall be entered

9. Enter and Navigate Submenus

Main menus can be entered as described above. Once
a main menu has been entered, submenus can be
switched through upward by pressing button 2 and
downward by pressing button 3. At the end of a
menu line it switches to the first entry.
This is the menu tree:
• Main menu 1
1.1 Setting time
1.2 Setting date
• Main menu 2
2.1 Setting alarm time
2.2 Setting duration time is displayed
2.3 Setting duration date is displayed
2.4 Setting cross fade
2.5 Setting different display variants (time 12/24h
and date DD.MM.YY / MM.DD.YY)
2.6 Setting switch off time for night power-down
mode
2.7 Setting switch on time for night power-down
mode
2.8 Blanking of the leading zero
Going through the submenu by pressing button 2 or 3
you can reach the value you want to alter. To enter
and edit a submenu button 1 must be pressed
shortly. The chosen value can now be stepped up by
pressing button 2 and down by pressing button 3. The
value will be set by leaving the submenu.
To leave a submenu, button 1 must be pressed long
time (1 second) and you will return to the main menu.
To then leave a main menu, button 1 must be pressed
long time (1 second) and the clock shall switch back to
display mode.

10. Editing the Parameters

Submenu 1.1: Setting Time

If this menu is entered, the display shows the preset
time.
If the clock is set up to AM/PM mode, nevertheless the
display shall show the time in 24-h mode.
Using button 2 and 3 the chosen digit can be set. To
switch to the next position, button 1 must be pressed.
To confirm this step shifting from digit to digit, the
following digit flashes. After the last digit, the first digit
shall be enabled again.
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The time of the day shall exactly be written into the
memory, when the submenu 1.1 is left. Therefore
the clock can be set exactly on the dot.
Setup Example:
• The time shall be set to 05:25:30 PM = 17:25:30
o'clock.
• Clock is in display mode.
• Press button 1 long time (1 second) to enter the
main menu 1.
• Clock stops and displays the current set time.
• Press button 1 (short) to enter the submenu 1.1.
• Press button 2 (to count up) and button 3 (to
count down) to set the first digit (to '1')
• Press button 1 (short) to jump to the second digit
• Press button 2 and button 3 to set the second
digit (to '7')
• Press button 1 (short) to jump to the third digit
• Press button 2 and button 3 to set the third digit
(to '2')
• Press button 1 (short) to jump to the fourth digit
• Press button 2 and button 3 to set the fourth digit
(to '5')
• Press button 1 (short) to jump to the fifth digit
• Press button 2 and button 3 to set the fifth digit
(to '3')
• Press button 1 (short) to jump to the sixth digit
• Press button 2 and button 3 to set the sixth digit
(to '0')
• Press button 1 long time (1 second) to leave the
submenu 1.1.
• Press button 1 long time (1 second) to leave the
main menu 1.
• Clock starts running in display mode with the set
time.

Submenu 1.2: Setting Date

This submenu is similar to submenu 1.1 except that
current date shall be displayed and edited.
During setting date in this menu the clock shall
always
DD.MM.YY.
If a corrupt date is set (e.g. 31.02.2009) the clock
would accept that date. But at the next change of a
day, the date shall be corrected to any correct one
(e.g. 01.03.2009).
Setup Example:
• Date shall be set to December, 24th 2009.
• Clock is in display mode.
• Press button 1 long time (1 second) to enter the
main menu 1.
• Clock stops and displays the current set time.
• Press button 2 once to reach submenu 1.2
• Press button 1 (short) to enter the submenu 1.2.
• Press button 2 (to count up) and button 3 (to
count down) to set the first digit (to '2')
• Press button 1 (short) to jump to the second digit
• Press button 2 and button 3 to set the second
digit (to '4')
• Press button 1 (short) to jump to the third digit
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