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Summary of Contents for ALLOWANCE 100
- Page 1 ALLOWANCE® Television Time Manager...
- Page 2 CODE KEY – Change A Child Access Code ALLOW KEY – Change A Weekly Time Allowance FORCE KEY – Change Time Remaining In An Allowance LOOK KEY – Look at Allowance, Time Remaining, & Access Code CLEAR KEY – Set the Time Of Day Additional Information...
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Page 3: Important Safety Information
Allowance controls the amount of time the television is allowed to be turned on. A child may use the TV Allowance by entering his four digit Child Access Code. If that child has time left in his Weekly Time Allowance then the TV Allowance will allow the electricity to flow to the television. That child’s time allowance is reduced by one minute when the time of day clock changes by one minute. -
Page 4: Physical Setup
A parent may also use the TV Allowance to set up, change, or view: Child Access Code(s), the amount of time remaining in a Weekly Time Allowance, the Time of Day, Lockout Intervals, the Weekly Time Allowance Rollover feature and even the Master Parental Access Code. All these functions are done by entering the Master Parental Access Code and then NOT pressing the ENTER key but instead pressing other keys. - Page 5 To set the hours and minutes of the weekly time allowance for child one enter four digits and press the ENTER key. The first two digits are the hours and the second two digits are the minutes.
- Page 6 This indicates that the access code for child two should be set. To do this, follow step 4 above. If you do not want to set the access code for child two or if only one child will be using the allowance press the enter key when the display is flashing “C2”...
- Page 7 4.2. ALLOW KEY – CHANGE A WEEKLY TIME ALLOWANCE To change a time allowance for a child you must press the ALLOW key followed by one of the digits 1, 2, 3, or 4 (corresponding to which child’s time allowance is being changed). After entering one of the numbers 1 through 4, the display will blink “An”...
- Page 8 4.3. FORCE KEY – CHANGE TIME REMAINING IN AN ALLOWANCE To change the time remaining in a weekly time allowance press the FORCE key and one of the digits 1, 2, 3, or 4 corresponding to which child’s time account is being changed. The display will blink “Fn” where n is a number from 1 to 4, and the LED corresponding to that child will light up.
- Page 9 Allowance. The display then alternately displays “F1” and “1:45” for a short time, indicating that child one has one hour and forty five minutes left in his allowance. The display then alternately displays “C1” and “9999” for a short time, indicating that child one’s access code is 9999.
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Page 10: Additional Information
5.1. SOUNDS PRODUCED BY THE TV ALLOWANCE When any legal key is pressed on the TV Allowance the key will cause sound. This sound is a short click. When a key that is not expected is pressed then no click sound is made. When a key that starts a function or ends a function is pressed the key makes a short click and then the TV Allowance makes a second sound;... - Page 11 For example if the TV Allowance is to refresh all the accounts on midnight Friday then choose day 1 to be Saturday, day 2 is then Sunday, and so on, so that day 7 becomes Friday. 5.5. IF YOU FORGET THE MASTER PARENTAL ACCESS CODE If you forget the Master Parental Access Code you should follow the steps listed below.
- Page 12 The Time Interval Lock Out Feature of the TV Allowance is used to set up time intervals during which the allowance will not allow any Child Access Code to be used. For example: A parent may want to set aside certain times during the weekday afternoons that the TV Allowance cannot be turned on.
- Page 13 The beginning time and ending times of any time interval must always be within one day of each other (no interval may span “12:00” midnight). Otherwise the Error Tone will sound and the ending time will blink giving you a chance to set it correctly. Once the day range and the time range of the Lock Out Interval has been set the display flashes “C”...
- Page 14 As an example if you wanted to view child one’s allowance (while in Parent/Programming) mode, time remaining, access code, and lockout intervals you would press the following keys (assume that the allowance for child one is 2 hours and 15 minutes, the time remaining in his account is 1 hour and 45 minutes, and his access code is 9999).
- Page 15 The display then alternately displays “F1” and “1:45” for a short time, indicating that child one has one hour and forty five minutes left in his allowance. The display then alternately display’s “C1” and “9999” for a short time, indicating that child one’s access code is 9999.
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