La Crosse Technology WS-8056U User Manual

WS-8056U
433 MHz
Radio Controlled Temperature Alarm
Instruction Manual
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TABLE OF CONTENTS Topic Page
Inventory of Contents/ Additional Equipment 3 About WWVB 3 Quick Set-Up Guide 4 Detailed Set-Up Guide Battery Installation 5 Program Mode Function Buttons 6 Time Zone Setting 6 DST (Daylight Saving Time) Setting 7 Language Selection 7 Time Setting 7 Calendar Setting 8 12/24-Hour Setting 8 Selecting °F or °C Features & Operations Changing Display Mode (viewing seconds ) 9 The Alarm 10 Indoor temperature 11 Remote Temperature 11 Mounting 11 Maintenance & Care 12 Troubleshooting 13 Specifications 14 Warranty Information 15-16
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INVENTORY OF CONTENTS
1) WS-8056U
2) TX6U remote temperature transmitter
3) Instruction manual and warranty card.
ADDITIONAL EQUIPMENT (not included)
1) Two fresh 1.5V AA batteries.
2) Two fresh 1.5V AA batteries.
3) Three wall-hanging screws.
4) 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 Temperature Alarm. However, due to the nature of the Earth’s Ionosphere, reception is very limited during daylight hours. The Temperature Alarm 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.
QUICK SET-UP GUIDE
Hint: Use good quality Alkaline Batteries and avoid rechargeable batteries.
1. Have the temperature clock and remote temperature sensor 3 to 5 apart.
2. Batteries should be out of both units for 10 m i nut es.
3. Place the batteries into the remote temperature sensor first then into the
temperature clock. (All remote temperature sensors must be started before the temperature clock)
4. DO NOT PRESS ANY BUTTONS FOR 10 MINUTES.
In this time the temperature clock and remote temperature sensor will start to talk to each other and the temperature clock will show both the indoor temperature and an outdoor temperature. If the temperature clock does not display both temperatures after the 10 minutes please retry the set up as stated above. After both indoo r a n d outdoor temperatures are displayed for 10 minut es you can place your remote temperature sensor outdoors and set your time.
The remote temperature sensor should be placed in a dry, shaded area. The remote temperature sensor has a range of 80 feet. Any walls that the signal will have to pass through will reduce distance. An outdoor wall or window will have 20 to 30 feet of resistance and an interior wall will have 10 to 20 feet of resistance. Your distance plus resistance should not exceed 80 ft. in a straight line.
NOTE: Fog and mist will not harm your remote temperature sensor but direct rain must
be avoided.
To complete the set up of your temperature clock after the 10 minutes have passed please follow the steps below.
DETAILED SET-UP GUIDE
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I) BATTERY INSTALLATION
Note:
To avoid start-up problems make sure that the batteries do not spring free.
A) REMOTE TEMPERATURE SENSOR
1) Remove the battery cover. Place your thumb over
the two air-vent slots on the face of the remote temperature sensor, push down gently, and slide battery cover down and off.
2) Observing the correct polarity, install 2 AA
batteries. The batteries will fit tightly (to avoid start-up problems make sure that they do not spring free during installation).
3) Replace the battery cover.
B) TEMPERATURE ALARM
1) Remove the battery cover,
located on the backside of the unit and directly 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 sound, and all the LCD’s (Liquid Crystal Display) will briefly light up. The indoor temperature, the date as “1/ 1”, the weekday as “MON”, and the remote temperature will be displayed (within three minutes). Also, the time will appear as “-:--” for approximately 1 minute. The WWVB search is automatically 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, and the time display will remain on “-:--”). While the WWVB search is being conducted various numbers will appear in the time display. After 10minutes, the temperature alarm will either display the WWVB time, or discontinue the search if the time is not found. If the search is cancelled “-:--” will appear in the time LCD. The temperature alarm 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 search will take place every hour (until 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
Date
Weekday or seconds display
Radio reception
Indoor temperature or seconds display
larm
Outdoor temperature
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