Settings - Accu-Chek Compact Plus User Manual

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Settings

You can change the settings of your meter to turn the beep tone or
Acoustic Mode on or off, to set the brightness of the display, to select
the time-and-date format, to set the year, the time and the date, and to
activate the alarm clock function and the hypo indicator.
Beep tone: When the beep tone is set to on, it provides user support
during testing by marking the start of each step acoustically.
Acoustic Mode: When Acoustic Mode is turned on, the meter guides
you through the blood glucose test using beep tones; it also outputs the
result as a series of beeps.
Alarm clock function: You can set the meter to remind you to test your
blood glucose.
Hypo indicator: You can set a personal hypo indicator level. If your
result is below this level, the meter alerts you to the fact that you are
possibly heading towards a hypo.
The meter is supplied with batteries already inserted. The time and date
are already set. You may need to adjust these settings to your own time
zone.
You can perform blood glucose tests without adjusting any of the set-
tings. All settings are the default factory settings (see next page).
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When you turn the meter on for the first time, it has the following pre-
settings. These are factory defaults that you can change.
Beep tone on, Acoustic Mode off
Brightness of the display: medium
Year: current year, e.g. 2007
Time-and-date format: 12-hour or 24-hour format;
12-hour format is associated with the date format month-day
(MM-DD)
24-hour format is associated with the date format day-month
(DD-MM)
Time: current time based on Eastern Standard Time (EST)
Date: current date based on Eastern Standard Time (EST)
Alarm clock function: off
Hypo indicator: off
Notes
If the year, time and date settings were lost as a result of a bat-
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tery replacement (see Chapter 9) and you fail to reset these, the
meter displays the time as 0:00 and the date as 0-00 (in 24-hour
format as well as in 12-hour format) when you perform a test.
In memory the results are saved not with the time and date but
with their memory location number (see Chapter 5.2). Without the
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