Casio 3238 User Manual

MA1101-EA

Operation Guide 3238

About This Manual

Depending on the model of your watch, display text x appears either as dark ﬁ gures on a light background or light ﬁ gures on a dark background. All sample displays in this manual are shown using dark ﬁ gures on a light background. Button operations are indicated using the letters shown x in the illustration. Each section of this manual provides you with the x information you need to perform operations in each mode. Further details and technical information can be found in the “Reference” section.

Procedure Lookup

The following is a handy reference list of all the operational procedures contained in this manual.

To set the time and date .........................................................................................E-6

To toggle between 12-hour and 24-hour timekeeping .........................................E-8

To set an alarm time .............................................................................................. E-11

To test the alarm .................................................................................................... E-13

To turn Alarms To select the operation of Alarm

To use the countdown timer ................................................................................. E-16

To set the countdown start time ..........................................................................E-17

To turn auto-repeat on and off .............................................................................E-18

To measure times with the stopwatch ................................................................. E-20

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through 5 and the Hourly Time Signal on and off ...............E-14

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General Guide

Press x C to change from mode to mode. In any mode, press x B to illuminate the display for about one second.

Contents

General Guide .......................................................................................................... E-4

Timekeeping ............................................................................................................. E-6

Alarms ...................................................................................................................... E-9

Countdown Timer .................................................................................................. E-16

Stopwatch .............................................................................................................. E-19

Dual Time ...............................................................................................................E-21

Illumination ............................................................................................................ E-22

Reference ............................................................................................................... E-23

Speciﬁ cations ........................................................................................................ E-24

To set the Dual Time .............................................................................................E-21

To illuminate the display ....................................................................................... E-22

In any mode, hold down x C for about one second to return to the Timekeeping Mode.

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Timekeeping Mode Alarm Mode

Press C.

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Timekeeping

Day of week

Month – Day

Seconds

Hour : Minutes

PM indicator

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To toggle between 12-hour and 24-hour timekeeping

In the Timekeeping Mode, press D to toggle between 12-hour timekeeping and 24-hour timekeeping.

With the 12-hour format, the x P (PM) indicator appears to the left of the hour digits for times in the range of noon to 11:59 p.m. and no indicator appears to the left of the hour digits for times in the range of midnight to 11:59 a.m. With the 24-hour format, times are displayed in the range of 0:00 to 23:59, without x any indicator. The 12-hour/24-hour timekeeping format you select in the Timekeeping Mode is x applied in all other modes.

Use the Timekeeping Mode to set and view the current time and date.

To set the time and date

In the Timekeeping Mode, hold down 1. A until the seconds start to ﬂ ash, which indicates the setting screen. Press 2. C to move the ﬂ ashing in the sequence shown below to select other settings.

Seconds Hour Minutes

Month YearDay

Countdown Timer

Mode Stopwatch Mode Dual Time Mode

When the setting you want to change is ﬂ ashing, press 3. D to change it as described below.

To change this setting Perform this button operation

Seconds

Hour, Minutes, Year, Month, Day

Pressing x D while the seconds are in the range of 30 to 59 resets them to 00 and adds 1 to the minutes. In the range of 00 to 29, the minutes are unchanged.

Press 4. A to exit the setting screen.

The day of the week is automatically displayed in accordance with the date (year, x month, and day) settings. The year can be set in the range of 2000 to 2099. x The watch’s built-in full automatic calendar automatically makes allowances for x different month lengths and leap years. Once you set the date, there should be no reason to change it except after you have the watch’s battery replaced.

Press D to reset to 00.

Press D to increase the setting.

Alarms

Alarm date (Month – Day)

Alarm number

Alarm time (Hour : Minutes)

You can set up to ﬁ ve independent multi-function alarms with hour, minutes, month, and day. When an alarm is turned on, the alarm tone sounds when the alarm time is reached. One of the alarms can be conﬁ gured 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 that causes the watch to beep twice every hour on the hour.

There are ﬁ ve alarms numbered x conﬁ gure Alarm Alarms only. All of the operations in this section are performed in the x Alarm Mode, which you enter by pressing C (page E-4).

as a snooze alarm or a one-time alarm.

through 5 can be used as one-time alarms

through 5. You can

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Alarm Types

The alarm type is determined by the settings you make, as described below.

x 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.

x Date alarm

Set the month, day, hour and minutes for the alarm time. This type of setting causes the alarm to sound at the speciﬁ c time, on the speciﬁ c date you set.

x 1-Month alarm

Set the month, hour and minutes for the alarm time. This type of setting causes the alarm to sound everyday at time you set, only during the month you set.

x Monthly alarm

Set the day, hour and minutes for the alarm time. This type of setting causes the alarm to sound every month at time you set, on the day you set.

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Press 3. C to move the ﬂ ashing in the sequence shown below to select other settings.

Hour Minutes Month Day

While a setting is ﬂ ashing, press 4. D to increase it.

To set an alarm that does not include a month (Daily alarm, Monthly alarm), set x for the month. Press D until the setting is ﬂ ashing. To set an alarm that does not include a day (Daily alarm, 1-Month alarm), set x for the day. Press D until the and 1) while the day setting is ﬂ ashing. When setting the alarm time using the 12-hour format, take care to set the time x correctly as a.m. or p.m. (P indicator).

Press 5. A to exit the setting screen.

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To turn Alarms 2 through 5 and the Hourly Time Signal on and off

Alarm on indicator

Hourly Time Signal on indicator

mark appears (between 12 and 1) while month

mark appears (between the end of the month

In the Alarm Mode, use 1. D to select a one-time alarm (alarm number 2 through 5) or the Hourly Time Signal

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Press 2. A to toggle it on and off.

The on/off status of Alarms x Time Signal is shown by indicators along the bottom of the displays. The alarm on indicators and Hourly Time Signal on x indicator are displayed in all modes. While an alarm is sounding, the applicable alarm on x indicator ﬂ ashes on the display.

through 5 and the Hourly

To set an alarm time

In the Alarm Mode, use 1. D to scroll through the alarm screens until the one whose time you want to set is displayed.

x1 x2 x3

x5 x4:00

To set a one-time alarm, display one of the screens indicated by an alarm number x

from

through 5. To set the snooze alarm, display the screen indicated by1.

After you select an alarm, hold down 2. A until the hour setting of the alarm time starts to ﬂ ash, which indicates the setting screen.

This operation automatically turns on the alarm. x

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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 operation is performed a total of seven times, every ﬁ ve minutes, until you turn the alarm off or change it to a one-time alarm (page E-14).

To stop the alarm tone after it starts to sound, press any button. x

Performing any one of the following operations during a 5-minute interval between x snooze alarms cancels the current snooze alarm operation.

Displaying the Timekeeping Mode setting screen (page E-6) Displaying the alarm

To test the alarm

In the Alarm Mode, hold down D to sound the alarm.

To select the operation of Alarm

In the Alarm Mode, use 1. D to select Alarm1. Press 2. A to cycle through the available settings in the sequence shown below.

The snooze on indicator ( x SNZ) and Alarm1 on indicator are displayed in all modes. The snooze on indicator ( x SNZ) ﬂ ashes during the 5-minute intervals between alarms. The alarm indicator (Alarm x

setting screen (page E-11)

Snooze on indicator (SNZ) and Alarm

One-time alarm on

Snooze alarm on

on and/or SNZ) ﬂ ashes while the alarm is sounding.

on indicator

Alarm off

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Countdown Timer

The countdown timer can be set within a range of one minute to 24 hours. An alarm sounds when the countdown reaches zero.

You can also select auto-repeat, which automatically x restarts the countdown from the original value you set whenever zero is reached.

Seconds

Minutes

Hours

When the end of the countdown is reached and auto-repeat is turned off, the alarm x sounds for 10 seconds or until you stop it by pressing any button. The countdown time is automatically reset to its starting value after the alarm stops.

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To turn auto-repeat on and off

Auto-repeat indicator

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All of the operations in this section are performed in the x Countdown Timer Mode, which you enter by pressing C (page E-5).

To use the countdown timer

Press D while in the Countdown Timer Mode to start the countdown timer.

In the Countdown Timer Mode, hold down 1. A until the hours setting of the countdown start time starts to ﬂ ash, which indicates the setting screen. Press 2. B to toggle auto-repeat on (A.RPT displayed) and off (A.RPT not displayed).

Note that pressing x B in the above operation also turns on illumination. When the end of the countdown is reached while x auto-repeat is on, the alarm sounds, but the countdown restarts from the beginning without stopping. You can stop the countdown by pressing D and manually reset to the start time by pressing A. The auto-repeat indicator appears in the Countdown x Timer Mode only.

The countdown timer measurement operation continues even if you exit the x Countdown Timer Mode. Press x D while a countdown operation is in progress to pause it. Press D again to resume the countdown. To completely stop a countdown operation, ﬁ rst pause it (by pressing x D), and then press A. This returns the countdown time to its starting value.

To set the countdown start time

In the Countdown Timer Mode, hold down 1. A until the hours setting of the countdown start time starts to ﬂ ash, which indicates the setting screen. Press 2. C to move the ﬂ ashing between the hours and minutes settings. While a setting is ﬂ ashing, use 3. D to increase it.

To set the starting value of the countdown time to 24 x

0:00

hours, set

Press 4. A to exit the setting screen.

Stopwatch

1/100 second

Minutes

Hours

The stopwatch lets you measure elapsed time, split times, and two ﬁ nishes.

The display range of the stopwatch is 23 hours, 59 x minutes, 59.99 seconds. The stopwatch continues to run, restarting from zero after x it reaches its limit, until you stop it. The stopwatch measurement operation continues even if x you exit the Stopwatch Mode.

Seconds

Exiting the Stopwatch Mode while a split time is frozen x on the display clears the split time and returns to elapsed time measurement. All of the operations in this section are performed in the x Stopwatch Mode, which you enter by pressing C (page E-5).

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