Care And Maintenance; Troubleshooting; Specifications; Indoor Temperature - Clas Ohlson RC316EL Manual

Radio controlled travel/alarm clock

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Setting the time and date manually

2 display modes:

- Time and temperature

- Time and alarm time

1. Press [ MODE ] until the indoor temperature appears in

the lower right-hand corner.

2. Hold in [ MODE ] until "M" (month) and "D" (day) begin to flash.

Note: When the clock is set to receive its time signal from WWVB

(The radio station which is responsible for sending the time signal

in North America) a map of the USA will appear. Press [ + ] or [ - ]

to select the proper time zone. Then press [ MODE ] in order to

continue on to step 3 and select the calendar format.

3. Press[ + ] or [ - ] to select the calendar display format

(month or day first).

4. Press[ MODE ]. The year will begin flashing on the display.

5. Press [ + ] or [ - ] to set the year.

6. Press [ MODE ] again and continue with the same procedure for

setting the month, date, hours and minutes.

7. Press [ MODE ] again to exit all settings.

The clock will return to normal time and temperature display if no

button is pressed for 30 seconds after exiting settings mode.

Dual time zone setting

1. Hold in [ - ] until "TIME SHIFT" appears on the display's lower

left hand corner and the set time zone is seen to be flashing.

2. Press [ + ] to set the desired time zone.

3. Press [ - ] again to exit settings.

4. "TIME SHIFT" will appear in the upper right-hand corner.

Example: With the clock set to receive signals from the atomic

clock in Japan (JJY60) and the atomic clock's current time is 03.00

am, having the clock's time zone is set to -1 (Hong Kong time) will

have the display show 02.00 am and "TIME SHIFT" will appear in

the display's upper right-hand corner.

Summer/winter time setting

The clock will automatically set itself to summer/winter time if it is

able to receive a time signal.

Note: Summer and winter time is not used in all time zones and

these cases must be set manually.

Manual reception settings

You can manually set the time signal reception depending on

the country or the American time zone you are visiting . You can

also set it for automatic scanning.

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Hold in [ WAVE ] until the set country is shown at the top of the display.

Press [ + ] or [ - ] to select the proper transmitter.

When a map of the USA is shown you will have the following time

zone selections available:

• "P" (Pacific standard time, WWVB)

• "M" (Mountain standard time, WWVB)

• "C" (Central standard time, WWVB)

• "E" (Eastern standard time, WWVB)

No maps are shown for:

• "EU" (Europe, DCF)

• "UK" (Great Britain, MSF)

• "JP-" (Japan, JJY)

• "OFF" No reception of time signal possible.

• "AUTO", appears together with the set country. When AUTO

mode is chosen, the clock will scan for all the above listed

transmitters.

Press [ WAVE ] again to exit all settings.

12- or 24- hour clock selection

Press [ + ] to select either a 12 or 24 hour clock display. "PM"/"AM"

are used for the 12-hour clock display.

Note: You can only select a 12- or 24-hour clock display when

the time scan is turned, "OFF". Refer to the section above.

Language selection

The following languages are available: English, German, French,

Italian and Spanish.

Hold in [ + ] until the language selections (EN, GE, FR, IT, SP) begin

scrolling through the display. Release the [ + ] button once the desired

language appears.

Setting the alarm

1. Press [ MODE ] until "ALARM" and the set alarm time appears

in the lower right-hand corner.

2. Hold in [ MODE ] until the hours display begins to flash.

3. Press [ + ] or [ - ] to set the hours.

4. Press [ MODE ] again until the minutes display begins to flash.

5. Press [ + ] or [ - ] to set the minutes.

6. Press [ ALARM ] to exit the alarm settings and activate the alarm.

Turning the alarm and snooze on/off

Press [ ALARM ] to turn the alarm on or off. The alarm symbol next

to the alarm time will appear if the alarm is active.

When the alarm sounds you can turn it off in 2 ways:

1. Press [ ALARM ].

2. Press [ SNOOZE/LIGHT ]. The alarm will be silenced and

the snooze icon will flash. After 5 min the alarm will sound again.

If no button is pushed, the alarm will shut off automatically after

2 minutes.

Indoor temperature

If the ambient temperature exceeds or is under the clock's temperature

range, either "HH" (over) or "LL" (under) will be shown instead of

the current temperature.