How To Turn The Clock On And Off; Introduction; A Few Samtimer Clock Features; Getting Started - How - SamTimer User Manual

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How to Turn the Clock On and Off
To turn the clock on simply press the center button . See
Getting Started - How to Select a Mode on page 7 for
details on selecting a mode.
To turn the clock off, press and hold the center button,
then press either black play switch five times . This
procedure makes it difficult to "accidentally" turn the
clock off.
NOTE : The clock will automatically turn off after four
hours if no switch is pressed during that time.
Introduction
The SamTimer Digital Game Clock may be used for
timing Scrabble®, Boggle®, chess , go, or shogi games.
This manual shows how to access the different modes,
how to change the initial starting times, how to start,
stop, or reset the clock, how to program the user modes,
and more. No sequence or combination of button
presses can damage the clock, so you may free ly
experiment as you study the features of the clock . If you
enter an incorrect sequence, or get confusing
information on the displays,
just turn the clock off using
the procedure above, reread this manual, and try again.
A Few SamTimer Clock Features
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Twelve user-configured modes . Each easily accessed with
one or two button presses .
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Over seventy modes. (The user can configure up to twelve
modes for fast access.)
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Scrabble® and Boggle® modes
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Mode options include: beep-at-end , beep-at-time-control,
beep-on-move, leds on, and for most modes you can alter
the time of the clock during a game.
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Beeper pitch is programmable .
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Unique unerasable serial number.
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Shuffle chess position generator
Getting Started - Select a Mode
TWO IMPORTANT DEFINITIONS:
LONG PRESS means to press the center button for
MORE than one second. (You will hear two short
beeps when you have pressed it long enough .)
SHORT PRESS means to press the center button for
LESS than one second. (If you hear two short
beeps you have pressed it too long .)
TO SELECT A MODE:
1. Hold down the black play switches listed in column one of
the table below, then press the center red button to turn the
clock on . This will select a group of modes as shown in
column two. The initial display is in column three .
Switches Pressed Modes Selected
Initial Display
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No switches User modes 1 to 4
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0:25 :00
Left play switch User modes 5 to 8 SCR - 1, SCR - 2
Right play switch· User modes 9 t012 CH - F1, GO - C1
Both play switches All modes SCR - 1, SCR - 2
- - - - - ­ - ­
- - - ­ - - - ­
2. If you selected user modes 1 to 4, you will see 0:25:00 on the
displays. This is Scrabble® I, the factory progr-emmed mode
for user mode 1. Press the red button repeatedly to see the
starting times for user .modes 2, 3, and 4.
These pre-programmed . . modes are listed below, and a
description of them is in the section Discussion of the Modes .
It is assumed the user will modify these modes and times , and
these factory settings are suggestions only. If you press the
red button four times, you return to user mode 1.
" User mode 1
2 3 4
Time 0:25 :00 -0 :25:00
0:25:00 3:00
Identifier SCR - 1 SCR-2
SCR - 3 BOGGLE