Turning The Input Tone On And Off; Alarms; Stopwatch - Casio DBC32-1A Operation Manual

Operation Guide 2888
To perform a currency conversion calculation
1. While the currency converter screen is displayed in the Calculator Mode, use the
keypad to input the value from which you want to convert.
2. Press [=PM] to display the conversion result.
3. Press C to clear the conversion result.
• An
E (error) indicator appears on the display when the result of a calculation
exceeds 8 digits. Press C to clear the error indicator.
• Pressing [=PM] while a calculation result is displayed will apply the conversion rate
again to the displayed value.

Turning the Input Tone On and Off

An input tone causes the watch to beep each time you press a button or keypad key.
You can turn off the input tone if you want.
• The input tone on/off setting you select in the Calculator Mode is applied to all other
modes, except the Stopwatch Mode.
• Note that alarms will continue to sound even if the input tone is turned off.
To turn the input tone on and off
While the calculator screen or currency converter screen
MUTE indicator
is displayed in the Calculator Mode, hold down C for
about two seconds to toggle the input tone on (MUTE
indicator not displayed) and off (MUTE indicator
displayed).
• Holding down C will also switch the Calculator Mode
screen.
• The MUTE indicator is displayed in all modes when the
input tone is turned off.

Alarms

Alarm number You can set up to five independent multi-function alarms
with hour, minutes, month, and day. When an alarm is
Alarm time
turned on, the alarm tone sounds when the alarm time is
reached. One of the alarms can be configured as a
snooze alarm or a one-time alarm, while the other four are
one-time alarms.
You can also turn on an Hourly Time Signal, which will
Timekeeping
cause the watch to beep twice every hour on the hour.
Mode time • There are five alarm screens numbered
Alarm date
The Hourly Time Signal screen is indicated by
Alarm Screen
• All of the operations in this section are performed in the
Alarm Mode, which you enter by pressing B.
Hourly Time Signal Screen
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.
Note
The 12-hour/24-hour format of the alarm time matches the format you select in the
Timekeeping Mode.
To set an alarm time
1. In the Alarm Mode, use [+] and [÷] to scroll through
Alarm number the alarm screens until the one whose time you want to
set is displayed.
Press [+]
x1
:00
AM indicator
• You can configure alarm
Hour : Minutes
one-time alarm. Alarms
one-time alarms only.
• The snooze alarm repeats every five minutes.
2. After you select an alarm, hold down A until the left
hour setting of the alarm time starts to flash, which
Month – Day
indicates the setting screen.
• This operation automatically turns on the alarm.
3. Use the keypad to input the alarm time and date.
• The flashing automatically advances to the right each time you input a number.
You can also use B and C to move the flashing between input digits.
• To set an alarm that does not use a month and/or day setting, input
of the unused settings.
• If you are using 12-hour timekeeping, press [=PM] while the hour or minute
setting is flashing to toggle between AM and PM.
• When setting the alarm time using the 12-hour format, take care to set the time
correctly as am (A indicator) or pm (P indicator).
4. Press A to exit the setting screen.
• Note that the month and day setting each appear as
no month or day is set. On the alarm screen, however, an unset month is shown as
x and an unset day is shown as xx . See the sample displays under "To set an
alarm time".
1 through 5 .
.
:00
Press [÷]
x2 x3
x5 x4
as a snooze alarm or a
1
2 through 5 can be used as
for each
00
00 on the setting screen when
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 tone operation is performed a
total of seven times, every five minutes, until you turn the alarm off or change it to a
one-time alarm.
• Pressing any button or key stops the alarm tone operation.
• 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 alarm setting screen
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To test the alarm
In the Alarm Mode, hold down C to sound the alarm.
• Pressing C also toggles the currently display alarm or the Hourly Time Signal on
and off.
To turn alarms 2 2 2 2 2 through 5 5 5 5 5 and the Hourly Time Signal on and off
1. In the Alarm Mode, use [+] and [÷] to select a one-
time alarm (alarms
Hourly time signal
Signal.
on indicator
2. Press C to toggle it on and off.
• The current on/off status of alarms
shown by indicators along the bottom of the displays
(al-2 through al-5). The SIG indicator shows the on (SIG
displayed)/off (SIG not displayed) status of the Hourly
Time Signal.
Alarm 4 on • The alarm on indicators and Hourly Time Signal on
Alarm 2 on
indicator indicator
indicator are displayed in all modes.
• While an alarm is sounding, the applicable alarm on
indicator flashes on the display.
To select the operation of alarm 1 1 1 1 1
1. In the Alarm Mode, use [+] and [÷] to select alarm
2. Press C to cycle through the available settings in the
sequence shown below.
SNZ indicator and alarm
Press C.
SNZ al-1
SNZ Alarm 1 on
Snooze alarm on
indicator indicator
• The SNZ indicator and alarm
displayed in all modes.
• The SNZ indicator flashes during the 5-minute intervals
between alarms.
• The alarm indicator (al-1 and/or SNZ) flashes while the
alarm is sounding.

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.
Timekeeping
• The elapsed time measurement operation continues
Mode time
even if you exit the Stopwatch Mode.
• Exiting the Stopwatch Mode while a split time is frozen
Seconds
Hours
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 B.
Minutes
1/100 second
To measure times with the stopwatch
Elapsed Time
C ➤ C
C ➤
Start Stop Re-start
Split Time
A
C ➤ A ➤
Start Split
Split release
(SPL displayed)
Two Finishes
C ➤ A ➤ C
Start Split Stop
Second runner
First runner
finishes.
finishes.
Display time of
first runner.
2 through 5 ) or the Hourly Time
through is
2 5
1 .
1 1 1 1 1 on indicator
al-1
Alarm off One-time alarm on
1 on indicator (al-1) are
➤ C ➤ A
Stop Clear
➤ C ➤ A
Clear
Stop
A
➤ A ➤
Split release Clear
Display time of
second runner.
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