La Crosse Technology WS-8001U User Manual

WS-8001U

Radio Controlled Moon Phase Clock

Instruction Manual

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Topic Page

Inventory of Contents/ Additional Equipment 3
About WWVB 3
Quick Set-Up Guide 3
Detailed Set-Up Guide
Battery Installation 4
Program Mode
Function Buttons 5
Time Zone Setting 5
DST (Daylight Saving Time) Setting 6
Language Selection 6
Time Setting 6
Calendar Setting 7
12/24-Hour Setting 7
Selecting °F or °C
Features & Operations
Displaying the Seconds 8
The Alarm 8-9
Moon Phase 9
Mounting 10
Maintenance & Care 11
Troubleshooting 12
Specifications 12
Warranty Information 13

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INVENTORY OF CONTENTS

1) WS-8001U

2) Instruction manual and warranty card.

ADDITIONAL EQUIPMENT (not included)

1) Two fresh 1.5V AA batteries.

2) Three wall-hanging screws.

3) Appropriate screwdriver for screws.

ABOUT WWVB (Radio Controlled Time)

The NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology—Time and Frequency
Division) WWVB radio station is located in Ft. Collins, Colorado, and transmits the exact
time signal continuously throughout the United States at 60 kHz. The signal can be
received up to 2, 000 miles away through the internal antenna in the Moon Phase Clock.
However, due to the nature of the Earth’s Ionosphere, reception is very limited during
daylight hours. The Moon Phase Clock will search for a signal every night when
reception is best. The WWVB radio station derives its signal from the NIST Atomic
clock in Boulder, Colorado. A team of atomic physicists is continually measuring every
second, of every day, to an accuracy of ten billionths of a second per day. These
physicists have created an international standard, measuring a second as 9,192,631,770
vibrations of a Cesium-133 atom in a vacuum. This Moon Phase Clock is regulated by
the WWVB transmitter.

QUICK SET-UP GUIDE

1) Insert two AA batteries into the Moon Phase Clock.

2) Wait 10 minutes for WWVB reception.

3) If there is no WWVB reception, manually set the time and date (instructions

in the Program Mode).

4) Program the settings.

5) Mount the WS-8001U in a suitable location, where WWVB signals can be

received.

DETAILED SET-UP GUIDE
I) BATTERY INSTALLATION

Note:

To avoid start-up problems

make sure that the batteries do not
spring free.

Battery Cover

A) MOON PHASE CLOCK

Battery Compartment

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1) Remove the battery cover, located on the backside of the unit and directly

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below the function buttons.

2) Observe the correct polarity, and install 2 AA batteries.

3) Replace the battery cover.

Note:

After the batteries have been installed a tone will s ound, and all the
LCD’s (Liquid Crystal Display) will briefly light up. Then the indoor
temperature, the date as “1/ 1”, the weekday as “MON”, and the Moon
Phase will be displayed. Also, the time will appear as “-:--” for
approximately 1 minute. Then the WWVB search is a utomatically initiated ,
and a tower icon appears and flashes with the time colon (no tower icon
will appear if the WWVB is too weak to be detected). While the WWVB
search is being conducted various numbers will appear in the time display.
The numbers “0”, “1”, or “8” will appear in the hour position and the
seconds will appear in the minute display. The Moon Phase Clock will
either display the WWVB time, or discontinue the search after 10 minutes if
the time is not found. When the search is cancelled “-:--”will app ear in the
time LCD. The Moon Phase Clock will conduct a WWVB search every hour
until the first signal is found. Once the WWVB time is found, a search is
automatically conducted nightly at midnight. If the signal is found at
midnight, the tower icon will remain, if not, another sear ch will take place
every hour(up to 6:00 am) until the signal is found successfully. If no signal
is found during this period, the tower icon will not appear and the clock will
search again at 12:00 am the next night.

WWVB Tower

Alarm sound Icon

Month/Da

Moon Phase Icon

Weekda

Indoor

PROGRAM MODE

To enter the Program Mode hold down the “SET” button for 2 seconds, until “-5EST”
flashes in the Date LCD. The Program Mode is laid out in a manner that allows you to
program each function separately, or you can follow the instructions entirely to program
the Moon Phase Clock. Complete programming is usually done for the initial set-up, and
will require you to skip step 1 of programming sections III through VIII. Press the
“SNOOZE” button at any time to exit the Program Mode, or wait approximately 15
seconds for the Moon Phase Clock to automatically return to normal operation.

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