Operation Guide 3150
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Alarm Types
The alarm type is determined by the settings you make, as described below.
• Daily alarm
Set the hour and minutes for the alarm time. This type of setting causes the
alarm to sound everyday at the time you set.
• Date alarm
Set the month, day, hour and minutes for the alarm time. This type of setting
causes the alarm to sound at the specific time, on the specific date you set.
• 1-Month alarm
Set the month, hour and minutes for the alarm time. This type of setting
causes the alarm to sound everyday at the time you set, only during the
month you set.
• Monthly alarm
Set the day, hour and minutes for the alarm time. This type of setting causes
the alarm to sound every month at the time you set, on the day you set.
To set an alarm time
1. In the Alarm Mode, use D to scroll through
the alarm screens until the one whose time
you want to set is displayed.
• To set a one-time alarm, display an alarm screen AL1, AL2, AL3
and AL4. To set the snooze alarm, display the SNZ screen.
• The snooze alarm repeats every five minutes.
2. After you select an alarm, hold down A until the hour setting of the alarm
time starts to flash, which indicates the setting screen.
• This operation turns on the alarm automatically.
3. Press C to move the flashing in the sequence shown below to select
other settings.
Hour Minutes Month Day
4. While a setting is flashing, use D and B to change it as described below.
5. Press A to exit the setting screen.
To do this:
Change the hour
and minutes
Change the
month and day
Do this:
Use D (+) and B (–).
• With the 12-hour format, set the time correctly
as a.m. or p.m. (P indicator).
• To set an alarm that does not include a month
and/or day, set
for each setting.
Screen
Alarm Operation
The alarm tone sounds at the preset time for 10 seconds, regardless of the
mode the watch is in. In the case of the snooze alarm, the alarm operation is
performed a total of seven times, every five minutes, until you turn the alarm
off.
• Alarm and Hourly Time Signal operations are performed in accordance with
the Timekeeping Mode time.
• To stop the alarm tone after it starts to sound, press any button.
• Performing any one of the following operations during a 5-minute interval
between snooze alarms cancels the current snooze alarm operation.
Displaying the Timekeeping Mode setting screen
Displaying the
SNZ
setting screen
To test the alarm
In the Alarm Mode, hold down D to sound the alarm.
To turn an alarm on and off
1. In the Alarm Mode, use D to select an alarm.
2. Press B to toggle it on and off.
• Turning on a alarm (
AL1, AL2, AL3,
AL4 or SNZ) displays the alarm on indicator
(
) on its Alarm Mode screen.
• In all modes, the alarm on indicator is shown
for any alarm that is currently turned on.
• The alarm on indicator flashes while the alarm
is sounding.
• The snooze alarm indicator (
) flashes while
the snooze alarm is sounding and during the 5-
minute intervals between alarms.
Alarm on
indicator
Snooze alarm
indicator
ON
To turn the Hourly Time Signal on and off
1. In the Alarm Mode, use D to select the Hourly
Time Signal (
SIG).
2. Press B to toggle it on and off.
• The Hourly Time Signal on indicator (
) is
shown on the display in all modes while this
function is turned on.
Hourly time signal
on indicator
Stopwatch
The stopwatch lets you measure elapsed time,
split times, and two finishes.
• The display range of the stopwatch is 23 hours,
59 minutes, 59.99 seconds.
• The stopwatch continues to run, restarting from
zero after it reaches its limit, until you stop it.
• The stopwatch measurement operation
continues even if you exit the Stopwatch Mode.
• Exiting the Stopwatch Mode while a split time is
frozen on the display clears the split time and
returns to elapsed time measurement.
• All of the operations in this section are
performed in the Stopwatch Mode, which you
enter by pressing C.
1/100 second
Hours
Minutes
Seconds
To measure times with the stopwatch
Elapsed Time
Split Time
Two Finishes
D
Start
D
Start
D
Start
Stop Re-start ClearStop
DD
B
D
➤ ➤ ➤ ➤
Split
(SPL displayed)
Split release ClearStop
B
DB
B
➤ ➤ ➤ ➤
Split
First runner finishes.
Display time of first
runner.
Stop
Second runner
finishes.
ClearSplit release
Display time of
second runner.
D
B
B
B
➤ ➤ ➤ ➤
Countdown Timer
You can set the countdown timer within a range
of one minute to 24 hours. An alarm sounds
when the countdown reaches zero.
• All of the operations in this section are
performed in the Countdown Timer Mode,
which you enter by pressing C.
Configuring the Countdown Timer
The following are the settings you should configure
before actually using the countdown timer.
Countdown start time
• See “To configure the countdown timer” for
information about setting up the timer.
Hours
Minutes
Seconds
Countdown End Beeper
The countdown end beeper lets you know when the countdown reaches zero.
The beeper stops after about 10 seconds or when you press any button.
To configure the countdown timer
1. While the countdown start time is on the display
in the Countdown Timer Mode, hold down A
until the current countdown start time starts to
flash, which indicates the setting screen.
• If the countdown start time is not displayed,
use the procedure under “To use the
countdown timer” to display it.
2. Press C to move the flashing in the sequence
shown below to select other settings.
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3. When the setting you want to change is flashing, use D and B to change
it as described below.
Button Operation
Use D (+) and B (–) to change the setting.
Setting
Hours, Minutes
Screen
• To specify a countdown start time of 24 hours, set .
4. Press A to exit the setting screen.
To use the countdown timer
Press D while in the Countdown Timer Mode to
start the countdown timer.
• The countdown timer operation continues even
if you exit the Countdown Timer Mode.
• Press D while a countdown operation is in
progress to pause it. Press D again to resume
the countdown.
• To stop a countdown operation completely, first
pause it (by pressing D), and then press B.
This returns the countdown time to its starting
value.
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Seconds
Current
timer time
Timer start
time