CAPTELEC FORECAST S8270 Mode D'emploi page 11

S8270 / 8270A-4
- HISTORY (21) Make a short press to read history of the atmospheric pressure. Make
a long press to parameter the altitude, the weather forecast and the atmospheric
data display. (refer to point G)
- SNOOZE/LIGHT (19) Make a short press to activate the backlight or to stop the alarm
bell.
C- Weather station setting :
- Press MODE (20) button during about 2 seconds
- Order of the indicators : Year > Month > Day > Language > 12/24 hour > Hour >
Minute > Exit
- For each indicator, use the UP( 24) and DOWN (25) button to select the correct data.
- Order for languages : German (GER) > French (FRE) > Italian (ITA) > Dutch (DUT) >
Spanish (SPA) > Danish (DAN) > English (ENG). The default language is German (GER)
When no button is touched for 20 seconds, the weather station quit setting mode to display
mode.
D- Alarm setting
- Press once MODE (20) button, LCD display the (AL1) icon.
- Press and hold down the MODE (20) button for 2 seconds until M-F (Monday to
Friday) icon is displayed. Use the UP (24) if you want to select to select S-S (Saturday
to Sunday) mode.
- Pres once MODE (20) button, the hour display of the Alarm time starts to flash. Use
the UP (24) and DOWN (25) buttons to set the required hour.
- Press MODE(20) button to confirm your setting, the Minute display of the Alarm time
starts to flash. Use the UP (24) and DOWN (25) buttons to set the required minute.
Press MODE (20) button to confirm your setting and to end the setting procedure
for alarm 1.
- When no button is touched for 20 seconds, the weather station quit setting mode to
display mode.
- To set the alarm 2, press two times on MODE (20) button, then make a long press on
MODE (20) again and follow same procedure as above to set the alarm 2.
- To activate the daily alarm briefly press the UP (24) button, to deactivate the daily
alarms, briefly press the UP (24) button again.
- The alarm will sound for 2 minutes if you do not deactivate it by pressing any button.
In this case the alarm will be repeated automatically after 24 hours.
- Rising alarm sound (crescendo, duration: 1 minutes) changes the rythm 4 times
whilst the alarm signal is heard.
- To stop the alarm when ringing, make a short press on SNOOZE/LIGHT (19) button.
The alarm will turn off for 5 minutes and will ring again.
- To definitively stop the alarm, press any button except SNOOZE/LIGHT (19) button.
E- Weather forecast
The weather station uses the air pressure data for weather forecast, When forecasting the
weather, the station has 5 icons:
There is a barometer module inside the main unit, it would store the history of
barometer, and calculate the change of it base on a formula, and get the result of
weather forecast.
The altitude is part of the formula, this is the reason why you can change this parameter (refer
point G)
F- Moon phase :
G- Setting of barometer, altitude and forecast
To get the most accurate weather forecast, you may change the default parameters and
enter real datas when you use the weather station for the first time.
Order of data setting: Altitude > Forecast > Unit measure
Altitude : Make a long press on HISTORY (21) button then adjust the altitude with UP (24)
and DOWN (25) buttons. Press HISTORY (21) button and the display (15) flashes, use UP
(24) button to change the icon and choose the one that correspond the best with current
weather. Press HISTORY (21) button and the icon of unit measure flashes, use UP(24)
button to choose between hPa (hectopascal) and InHG (Inch of Mercury). Press one last
time on HISTORY (21) to exit the setting mode.
To read the history of pressure data, make a short press on HISTORY (21), the pressure
data of D-1 will show, press again to get D-2 and so on until D-12.
H- Temperature alert setting :
- Make a short press on UP (24) to read the temperature alert registered.
- Make a long press on UP (24) and then make a short press on UP (24) to activate or
deactivate the temperature alert (ON/OF)
- Make a short press on MODE (20) button and use UP(24) and DOWN(25) button to
select the maximum temperature level desired.
- Make a short press on MODE (20) button and use UP(24) and DOWN(25) button to
select the minimum temperature level desired.
- Make a short press on MODE (20) to exit the setting mode.
When a temperature alert is programmed, the indicator (13) flashes.