Casio 1856 Owner's Manual

Module No.1856/1933	1856/1933-1

GENERAL GUIDE

•Press C to change from mode to mode.

•In the Timekeeping Mode, press D to illuminate the display for about 3 seconds. In the Stopwatch Mode, press B to illuminate the display.

Timekeeping Mode

Mix Mode

Alarm Mode

Stopwatch Mode

TIMEKEEPING MODE

Day of week

PM indicator			Month – Day

Hour Seconds

Minutes

•In the Timekeeping Mode, press E to switch between the 12-hour and 24-hour formats. When using the 12hour timekeeping format, the letters A and P are used to indicate “am” and “pm” on the display. No indicator appears on display for 24-hour format.

•Press D in the Timekeeping Mode to activate the EL backlight.

•Pressing B in the Timekeeping Mode randomly selects and plays one of the six melodies (three preset melodies, three user melodies) in watch memory. While a melody is playing, dancers and musicians perform on the display.

Pressing any button interrupts play of the melody.

•See the “Melody List” at the back of this manual for details on the three preset melodies.

To set the time and date

1.Hold down A while in the Timekeeping Mode. The seconds digits flash on the display because they are selected.

2.Press C to change the selection in the following sequence.

Seconds

Hour

Minutes

Year

Contrast

Day

Month

3.While the seconds digits are selected (flashing), press E or B to reset the seconds to 00. If you press E or B while the seconds count is in the range of 30 to 59, the seconds are reset to 00 and 1 is added to the minutes. If the seconds count is in the range of 00 to 29 , the minutes count is unchanged.

4.While any other digits (besides seconds) are selected (flashing), press E to in-

crease the number or B to decrease it. Holding down either button changes the current selection at high speed.

• Use the contrast adjustment screen (indicated by “CNT”) to adjust display contrast within a range of 1 to 7. Press E to increase the contrast value (which makes figures darker) or B to decrease the value. In the case of contrast setting, holding either button does not change the contrast setting at high speed.

5. After you set the time and date, press A to return to the Timekeeping Mode.

•The day of week is automatically set in accordance with the date.

•The date can be set within the range of January 1, 1995 to December 31, 2039.

•If you do not operate any button for a few minutes while a selection is flashing, the flashing stops and the watch goes back to the Timekeeping Mode automatically.

About the backlight

ALARM MODE

Individual alarm on indicator Mode indicator

Current time

Alarm time

Alarm number General alarm on indicator

To set alarms

Individual alarm on indicator Alarm sound name

Current time

Alarm time

Alarm number General alarm on indicator

You can set five independent alarms. Use the Alarm Mode to turn the alarm and the Hourly Time Signal on and off.

•When an alarm is turned on, an alarm tone sounds for about 10 to 30 seconds when the alarm time is reached.

•When the Hourly Time Signal is turned on, the watch beeps every hour on the hour.

•You can use any of the preset melodies (M-1, M-2, M-

3)or melodies you arrange with the Mix Mode for the alarm in place of the standard beep sound. See “USING THE MIX MODE” for details on arranging your own melodies.

•See the “Melody List” on the next page of this manual for details on the three preset melodies.

•The alarm does not sound if the alarm time is reached while you are arranging a melody in the Mix Mode.

1.Press E while in the Alarm Mode to select an alarm (Alarm 1 through Alarm 5).

Alarm 1

Alarm 2

Alarm 3

Alarm 4

Hourly Time Signal

Alarm 5

2.After you select an alarm, hold down A. The alarm sound name flashes on the display because it is selected.

• At this time, the alarm is automatically switched on.

3.Press C to change the selection in the following sequence.

	Alarm sound	Hour	Minutes
	name

4.Press E to increase the selected digits and B to decrease them. Holding down either button changes the selection at high speed.

•The format (12-hour and 24-hour) of the alarm time matches the format you select for normal timekeeping.

•When setting the alarm time using the 12-hour format, take care to set the time correctly as morning (A) or afternoon (P).

5.While the alarm sound name is flashing, press E or B to scroll through the available alarm sounds to find the one you want.

In the Timekeeping Mode, press D to illuminate the display for about 3 seconds. In Stopwatch Mode, press B to illuminate the display for about 3 seconds.

•The backlight of the watch employs an electro-luminescent (EL) light, which loses illuminating power after very long use.

•The illumination provided by the backlight may be hard to see when viewed under direct sunlight.

•The watch will emit an audible sound whenever the display is illuminated. This is caused by a transformer that vibrates when the EL panel lights up. It does not indicate malfunction of the watch.

•The backlight automatically turns off whenever an alarm sounds.

MIX MODE

The Mix Mode lets you arrange your own melody and store it in watch memory. You can select a rhythm, tempo, and phrase to create a melody. See “USING THE MIX MODE” for details about how to create a melody.

To play a Mix Mode melody

	Title	1. Use the E button to select one of the three available
		melodies.
		2. Press D to play the currently selected melody. Press-
		ing any button interrupts play of the melody.
		While a melody is playing, dancers and musicians per-
		• form on the display.
		If the melody number you select above does not have a
		• user memory assigned to it, a default rhythm pattern
		plays instead.
		Pressing B while a melody is selected (but not playing)
	Melody number	• displays the melody evaluation screen for the melody.
		See “USING MIX MODE” for details on evaluating mel-
		odies.

•Holding down B for about two seconds while a melody is selected (but not playing) deletes the melody.

M - 1						M - 2						M - 3					BEEP
		003							002						001

•Melody numbers, 001 through 003 can be replaced by user melody names. If you have not created your own melodies or if you did not assign names to melodies you created, melodies are identified by their numbers 001 through 003.

6. After you finish inputting data, press A to return to the Alarm Mode.

•If you do not operate any button for a few minutes while a selection is flashing, the flashing stops and the watch goes back to the Alarm Mode automatically.

To stop the alarm

Press any button to stop an alarm when it starts to sound.

To switch an Alarm on and off

Individual alarm on indicator	1. In the Alarm Mode, press E to select an alarm.
	2. When the alarm you want is selected, press Bto switch
	it on and off.
	......... Individual alarm indicator
	Indicates whether the alarm whose number
	is currently selected in the Alarm Mode is
	on.
	ALM ....... General alarm indicator
	This indicator is shown on the display in all
Alarm time	modes while any alarm is on.
Alarm number
General alarm on indicator

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To turn Hourly Time Signal on and off

Hourly time signal on indicator 1

Current time

Hourly time signal on indicator 2

Hourly time signal on/off display

To test the alarm

1.In the Alarm Mode, press E to select the Hourly Time Signal.

2.When the Hourly Time Signal is selected, press B to toggle it on (ON appears in lower part of the display) and off (OFF displayed).

......... Hourly Time Signal Indicator 1

This indicator is shown in the Alarm Mode only to indicate that the Hourly Time Signal is on.

SIG ........ Hourly Time Signal Indicator 2

This indicator is shown on the display in all modes while the Hourly Time Signal is on.

Press D while in the Alarm Mode to sound the alarm. Press any button to stop the alarm.

		STOPWATCH MODE
Mode indicator		The Stopwatch Mode lets you measure elapsed time, split
	Hours	times, and two finishes. The range of the stopwatch is 23
		hours, 59 minutes, 59.99 seconds. You can use the EL
		backlight by pressing B at any time while the stopwatch
		is operating.

Minutes

Seconds

1/100 Second

Elapsed time measurement

Start		Stop			Re-start		Stop		Clear
Split time measurement
Start		Split			Split release		Stop		Clear
Split time and 1st-2nd place times
Start		Split			Stop		Split release		Clear
		First runner			Second runner		Record time of
		finishes.			finishes.		second runner.
					Record time of
					first runner.

	MELODY LIST
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M-1	HIGH ENERGY PROTONS
M-2	FEEL THE UNIVERSE
M-3	FREAK
1933	All of these are CASIO original melodies.
M-1	New year’s day
M-2	Orinoco flow
M-3	Runaway

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