[Electronics-talk] Home security systems
philip blackmer
pblackmer27 at gmail.com
Sat Mar 14 04:04:57 UTC 2015
I read that entire message. It seems to me that was written by a sighted person who doesn't really understand what blind people are capable of! I don't really want to go into all the details but several comments made in the instructions sounded as if they were coming from a sighted person.
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> On Mar 8, 2015, at 1:50 PM, David Andrews via Electronics-talk <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> Here is the manual.
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> Dave
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> 756990 – Kelvin Talking Thermostat
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> Side 1- Introduction:
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> This tape was prepared by Independent Living Aids to introduce you to the Kelvin Voice Interactive Thermostat and to instruct those who are visually impaired, on how to use and operate the thermostat.
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> The Kelvin Voice Interactive Thermostat is endorsed by the National Federation of the Blind. It is mercury free, and is FCC approved.
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> ========================
> Before you open the plastic packaging, please listen to the following information:
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> The thermostat comes with a 1 year warranty, starting from the date of purchase.
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> In the package are a warranty information card and two manuals.
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> One manual is for installation of the thermostat and the other manual is for operation of the thermostat.
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> Keep the warranty card, the sales slip, and the manuals together for your records.
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> The phone number to call for support and warranty service is 516-937-1848.
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> Whoever installs the thermostat must first remove the old thermostat and identify and label the wires so that they can be reconnected to the new thermostat in the proper order.
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> The installer must secure the wires to keep them from falling into the wall before reconnecting them to the new thermostat.
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> The installer must drill some holes for screws that mount the new thermostat to the wall.
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> These steps will be very difficult for someone with impaired vision to accomplish, so the procedures for installing the thermostat are not on this tape.
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> Actually, the manufacturer recommends that the thermostat be professionally installed. However, if you have a friend or relative who is comfortable with making changes to household wiring or other electrical projects, he or she should be able to install the thermostat by following the procedures in the instruction manual.
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> I recommend that you give the installer the thermostat’s package before you open it. The outside of the package explains which systems this thermostat will work with. If the thermostat won’t work with your system, you can return the package unopened.
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> If the installer determines that the thermostat will work for you, he will find a detailed installation manual inside the package.
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> For your information, here is a description of what the installer will do for you, so that if you hire a professional, you will have an idea of what he is charging you for.
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> The Kelvin thermostat can be used with systems operating on 10 to 30 volts AC and up to 1 ampere maximum.
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> This means that it can be used with most 24 volt gas, oil, or electric heating and cooling systems that have 2, 3, or 4 wire hookups. This fits the great majority of installations.
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> The Kelvin thermostat can also be used with steam heating systems that have a 24 volts ac low voltage hookup.
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> • It cannot be used with an electric baseboard heating system.
> • It cannot be used with heat pumps.
> • It cannot be used with any 120 volt heating systems.
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> The best location for mounting the thermostat is about 5 feet from the floor, in an area with good airflow and not located near anything that will affect its temperature readings. This means to avoid placing the thermostat in direct sunlight, directly under a lamp, directly over a radiator, next to an outside door, or in an unheated room. Of course, if you are replacing an existing thermostat with the Kelvin thermostat, your only choice may be to simply install the new thermostat where your old one was located.
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> The package contains a sheet of stick-on labels so that the installer can properly label each wire as it is removed from the old thermostat. When the wires are properly labeled, the installer will know which wires go to which connections on the new thermostat.
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> The installer will drill two holes in the wall for mounting the thermostat. He will screw the thermostat’s wall plate to the wall and connect the wires. The package contains the necessary screws and plastic wall anchors.
> He will install batteries in the Thermostat’s body and snap the body on to the wall plate. The package does not contain any batteries. You will need to provide four AA batteries.
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> The installer will program the thermostat with the correct time and day. My estimate is that unless there is something unusual, the installer should be able to complete the work in less than ½ hour.
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> The thermostat comes programmed with factory default thermostat settings for heating and cooling periods for each day of the week. You can ask the installer to change them if you wish. However, you will be able to change these settings whenever you want to.
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> ==========================
> After the thermostat is installed, you will be able to hear an information message from the thermostat whenever you want to.
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> You have two ways of activating the thermostat’s information message. You can press a button on front of the thermostat, or you can clap twice and say “thermostat”.
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> Either way, the thermostat will announce the time, the room temperature, and the thermostat setting.
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> You will then be able to change the thermostat setting either by speaking to the thermostat or by pressing a button on the thermostat.
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> You can change the thermostat setting one degree at a time.
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> To do it by voice command, you say either “raise” or “lower”. If you don’t want to make the change by saying “raise” or “lower” you can press the “up” button or the “down” button on the front of the thermostat. Either way, the thermostat will tell you the new thermostat setting.
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> Here is what it sounds like:
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> ====Record:
> double clap
> say Thermostat
> say Raise
> say Lower
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> The rest of this side of this tape contains a description of your thermostat. Don’t try to follow these instructions too closely; they aren’t intended to show you how to operate the thermostat. They are intended to familiarize you with the thermostat and all of its features.
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> The other side of this tape has detailed operating instructions for listening to the current temperature, changing the thermostat settings, changing the daily programming, and replacing the batteries.
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> First, let me explain about the batteries. The thermostat can work on house current, batteries, or both. It’s set at the factory to run on both. This setting will give you the longest battery life, about 1 year. This is the setting you should use. You might want to ask the installer to verify that the thermostat is set up this way, so that it will operate on house current and batteries.
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> You should always keep batteries installed in the thermostat so that if your house power goes out, the thermostat will keep working.
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> When the batteries are low, the thermostat will make a beeping sound every 10 minutes to remind you to replace them. When you change batteries, all of your programming will be maintained, except for the correct time. That will have to be reset, but it is a simple thing to do.
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> There is a battery replacement procedure on the other side of this tape, but it would be best if you had someone replace the batteries for you when they get low. The reason for this is that after you replace the batteries, you must reset the thermostat’s clock. Imagine that your thermostat is programmed to lower the house temperature to 62 degrees at 10 pm, but the thermostat’s clock is set incorrectly, so that at 12 noon the thermostat thinks it’s 10 at night. You house will be too cold in the daytime and it will be too warm at night.
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> What this means is that after you replace the batteries you need to know the correct time and set the thermostat to that time. If your vision is not too impaired to see the time on a clock, or if you have another way of obtaining the correct time, then you can change the batteries and reset the thermostat’s clock. If not, you will need someone to do it for you.
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> Here is a suggestion. Most houses and apartments have smoke detectors, whose batteries should be replaced once a year. You may also have other devices, like alarm clocks that have batteries to help the clock keep correct time if the power goes out. All these batteries should also be replaced once a year. It might be a good idea to make a list of all these devices, and then replace all of their batteries at the same time every year. Since you will know in advance that all these batteries need to be replaced at once, you can ask a friend or relative to do it for you. I think it’s much better than suddenly hearing your thermostat or your smoke detector start to beep, trying to determine what device is beeping, and why is it beeping; and then perhaps trying to find four fresh batteries, digging out this tape, for battery replacement instructions, and so on.
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> When it is mounted on the wall, the thermostat appears as a roughly 5 inch square with rounded corners and curved sides.
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> The top third of the thermostat contains a Liquid Crystal Display that shows the day, the time, the room temperature and some other information. The display can also be used as an aid to programming the thermostat, but the display is not lit, so that black characters appear on a silver-grey background. People with impaired vision may not be able to read the display and will have to rely on the voice feature of the thermostat. But the voice feature of the thermostat is so complete that you don’t need to use the LCD display at all.
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> There is a small hole to the right of the display. The microphone is behind that hole.
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> Although the microphone is small, it is sensitive enough to pick up your voice commands from across the room.
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> The middle third of the thermostat has a large circular disk in the center. The disk covers the speaker.
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> On each side of the disk there is a button for changing the temperature setting.
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> The button on the right has a large raised letter V, indicating that it is for lowering the temperature setting.
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> The button on the left has a large raised upside-down letter V, indicating it is for raising the temperature setting.
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> The bottom third of the thermostat is a hinged cover. When you swing this cover down, you have access to the programming buttons.
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> There are 10 programming buttons. These buttons are used to set the clock, to set the day of the week, and to set the temperature. When you press one of these buttons, the thermostat will tell you the current setting so that you can change it if you wish.
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> Finally, at the very bottom of the thermostat there are two switches. One switch has 3 settings: cool, off and Heat. If your thermostat is controlling both a heating system and a cooling system, you move this switch to the correct position at the beginning of the heating season or the cooling season. If you don’t want the thermostat to control the house temperature, you set the switch to the OFF position.
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> The other switch has two settings: Fan Auto and Fan On. If you are controlling a system with a fan, like a cooling system, you can have the fan run all the time by setting the switch to Fan On. If you set the switch to Fan Auto, then the fan will go on automatically when the cooling system starts to cool the air, and the fan will stop when the cooling system stops cooling the air.
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> Ask the installer whether the Fan switch works with your system. If you are only controlling a normal household heating system, the setting of the Fan switch may have no effect and it can be ignored.
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> The Kelvin thermostat is a 7 day programmable thermostat. That means that you can set different time and temperature profiles for each day of the week.
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> The Kelvin thermostat comes preprogrammed with a temperature control schedule that will work for most household situations. If the factory program is not to your liking you can program the thermostat to satisfy your own needs.
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> As I mentioned before, the 10 programming buttons are all located behind a swing down cover. Four of them are rectangular shaped buttons labeled Morning, Day, Evening, and Night.
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> You press the day button to select the day you are programming the thermostat for.
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> Then you press the morning button so that you can set the time that your morning begins. Then you set the temperature for the morning.
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> Then you press the day button to set the time that your day begins. You then set the temperature for the daytime.
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> You repeat this for the evening button and the night button.
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> The result is that for every day of the week you can have four different times at which you can set the thermostat’s temperature settings.
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> Here is what the factory settings are:
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> Every day’s temperature settings are the same. Here is what they are:
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> At night time, which is set to 11 10 pm, the thermostat drops to 64 62 degrees. The house is cold while you are sleeping under a warm blanket.
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> In the morning, at 6 am, the temperature rises to 70 degrees, so that you can wash up and get dressed at a comfortable temperature.
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> During the day, which begins at 9 8 am, the temperature drops to 66 62 degrees. This setting was made on the assumption that everyone in the house would be at work or at school. If someone is home during the day, you might want to raise this setting, maybe to 68 or higher.
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> In the evening, which begins at 4 6 pm, the temperature raises to 70, on the assumption that everyone is home again.
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> At night, at 11 10 pm, the temperature drops to 64 62 degrees again for night time sleeping.
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> [The exact same schedule is programmed for the weekend, except that the daytime temperature setting is 68 degrees instead of 62 degrees, on the assumption that someone will be home on Saturday and Sunday.]
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> On the other side of the tape I will give you detailed instructions for setting the program to your own preferences.
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> There is also a factory setting for cooling. The factory settings for the weekdays and weekends are identical.
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> Morning starts at 6am with a setting of 78 degrees.
> Day starts at 9 8 am. From Monday to Friday the Day time setting is 82 85 degrees. On Saturday and Sunday, the daytime setting is 78 degrees.
> Evening starts at 4 6 pm with a setting of 78 degrees.
> Night starts at 11 10 pm with a setting of 80 82 degrees.
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> The thermostat comes set up to tell you the temperature in degrees Fahrenheit. You can change the thermostat to work in degrees Celsius, which is the temperature standard commonly used outside of the United States.
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> You can turn the voice prompts off if you wish, but that will defeat the purpose of having a thermostat that is designed for people with impaired vision.
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> You can activate the thermostat from across the room by clapping twice and then saying “thermostat”.
> Then you can raise or lower the temperature settings by saying “raise” or “lower”.
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> You can disable the clapper feature if you don’t want to use it. For example, you may find that some sounds, like a loud sneeze, can cause the thermostat to announce the current time and temperature. If that is annoying, disable the clapper feature.
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> If you disable the clapper feature and you want to activate the thermostat, you will have to press either one of the two buttons on the front panel.
> After you activate the thermostat by pressing a button, you can change the temperature setting by either pressing the appropriate button or by saying “raise” or “lower”.
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> You can adjust the volume to one of four volume control settings.
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> If you aren’t happy with any settings you made, you can set the thermostat back to its factory settings, if you want to use them or if you simply want to start reprogramming the thermostat using the factory settings as a starting point.
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> When you are through listening to this side of the tape, please fast forward the tape to the end.
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> Then turn the tape over and play the other side for the operating instructions.
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> __________________________
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> Part 2: Operating Procedures.
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> This side of the tape has the operating instructions for your Kelvin Thermostat. If you can have someone change the batteries for you once a year you will only need to learn the simple procedure for daily operation of the thermostat. If you can’t find someone to change the batteries then the procedures on this tape will teach you how to do it yourself.
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> As I explained on the other side of this tape, your thermostat comes programmed at the factory with default settings for heating and cooling. These settings might be suitable for you. If they aren’t, you may have had the person who installed the thermostat reprogram it to your specifications. If you want to change the thermostat’s program, the procedures are on this tape.
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> Once the thermostat is programmed to suit your needs, you shouldn’t have to change the program again. For every day use, you’ll only need to know the location of four switches to operate your thermostat, so those are the procedures that I’ll cover first.
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> Operating Mode Switch
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> In order for the thermostat to work properly, it needs to know whether it is controlling the heating system or the cooling system because the thermostat has one program for heating and another program for cooling. Here’s how to set the Operating Mode switch:
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> Go to the thermostat and place a finger along any side. Run your finger around the thermostat and you will find that there are two switches projecting down from the bottom side.
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> The switch on the right is the MODE switch. It has three positions.
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> The left position is COOL. If your thermostat is set up to control an air conditioning system, and this is the cooling season, set the switch to the Left most position.
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> The middle position is OFF. If you don’t want the thermostat to control your heating or cooling system, set the switch to the middle position.
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> You might want to set the thermostat off if you are going to be away in the summer and don’t want the air conditioner to run.
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> You also might want to turn the thermostat off in the winter, but please be aware that if you live in an area where the temperature reaches below freezing the winter and you turn your heating system off, your pipes might freeze. In that case, you are going to be away in the winter, you might want to program your thermostat so that it keeps the house at a constant temperature, for example 60 degrees.
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> The right position is Heat. If your thermostat is set up to control a heating system, and this is the heating season, set the switch to the right most position.
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> Fan Switch
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> At the bottom left of the thermostat is the FAN switch. It has two positions, FAN AUTO and FAN ON.
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> Air conditioning systems always have a fan, heating systems usually don’t. This switch allows you to set up your system so that the fan either runs all the time, or only when the heating or cooling system is on.
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> For example, if you have an air conditioning system, your air conditioner won’t be able to cool the air unless the air is circulating in the ducts, bringing warm air into the air conditioner’s coils, where it can be cooled down. The fan must be on when the air conditioner is on.
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> But you might want to keep the air circulating even when the air conditioner is off. This will keep the cool air flowing through the ducts at all times, so that you will feel a slight breeze and the house will stay at a uniform temperature, instead of building up warm areas because the air isn’t circulating.
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> The FAN switch allows you to make the choice.
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> Here is how it works.
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> The left Position is FAN AUTO. In this position the fan goes on and off automatically whenever the heating or cooling system goes on or off.
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> The right position is FAN ON. In this position the fan keeps running, even if the heating or cooling system is off.
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> Daily Operation
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> Remember that your thermostat was programmed for four different time periods each day. Morning, Daytime, Evening, and Night.
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> At each of these time periods the thermostat’s temperature setting will automatically change to the programmed setting.
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> However, you might want to temporarily change the thermostat setting without having to change the program. The daily operating procedure allows you to make a temporary change to the thermostat setting. The change you make will be in effect until the next time period, at which the thermostat will automatically change to the programmed setting for that time period.
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> Here’s an example: This means that you can change the thermostat setting, for example at 2 in the afternoon, and keep that new setting until the evening program starts, perhaps at 6 pm. When the evening program starts, the thermostat setting will change to whatever is programmed for the evening.
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> This is a very useful feature. Here’s an example: Suppose it’s summertime and you are having guests. The thermostat’s program keeps the house comfortable for you, but not cool enough if you are going to have a few guests over. So you’d like to change the thermostat setting to a lower the temperature. You would like to do this about 1 hour before the guests arrive, to give the house time to cool down to the new setting. So, about 1 hour before the guests arrive, you change the setting by either pushing one or two buttons on the thermostat or by giving the thermostat a few voice commands.
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> The thermostat will maintain your new, temporary setting, until the next programmed setting starts. So if you lowered the temperature during the daytime period, the thermostat will automatically switch over to the programmed setting as soon as the evening period starts. If the evening’s setting meets your needs, you don’t have to do anything, if not; you simply change the thermostat’s setting again and it will remain in effect until the next period starts, in this example, the nighttime setting.
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> You can change the thermostat setting using either a Manual Operating procedure or a Voice operating procedure.
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> MANUAL OPERATION
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> To operate the thermostat manually, you only need to press one or two buttons. These are the raise button, and the lower button.
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> Place your hand on the thermostat and locate the raised disk in the center. The disk covers the thermostat’s speaker.
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> Move your finger to the right of the disk and locate a large raised symbol shaped like the letter V. Imagine the V symbol as the head of an arrow pointing down. The symbol is on the LOWER button.
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> If you move your finger above the V shaped symbol, you will feel a crack. The crack is the top edge of the LOWER button. Move your finger down until you find the crack that marks the bottom edge of the button. The left edge of the button is curved, where the button meets a recessed area that contains the speaker.
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> This large area, with the V shaped symbol in the middle, is the LOWER button.
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> If you press anywhere on this area, you will activate the thermostat and it will tell you the current time, temperature, and the thermostat setting.
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> Here’s what it sounds like.
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> If you move your finger to the left side of the thermostat, you will find another raised symbol. This one is shaped like an upside down letter V. Imagine the upside down V symbol as the head of an arrow pointing up. The symbol is on the RAISE button.
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> The upside down V symbol is in the center of the RAISE button.
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> Now that you know where the raise and lower buttons are, here is the procedure to operate the thermostat:
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> 1. Press either button and listen to the thermostat’s message.
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> 2. After you hear the message, you can change the thermostat setting. To do so, you must press the raise button or the lower button within 5 seconds after message.
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> 3. Press the LOWER button on the right to lower the setting by one degree, or press the RAISE button on the left to raise the setting by one degree.
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> 4. Each time you press a button, the thermostat will announce the new setting. Keep pressing a button until the thermostat is set to the temperature you want.
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> Please note that if you wait too long to press the raise or lower button, you’ll hear a short beep. That means the thermostat is no longer waiting for a command, so when you press a button, you’ll reactivate the thermostat and you will hear the announcement all over again. You’ll then have 5 seconds to press the raise or lower button to change the thermostat setting.
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> Now that you know how to use the buttons, you should be aware that you don’t have to actually press them to change the thermostat setting. After you hear the message, instead of pressing a button to change the setting, all you need to do is say either “raise” or “lower”.
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> VOICE OPERATION
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> You can do everything by voice command if you wish. Here’s the procedure:
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> Clap two times rapidly, like this:
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> (clap- Clap)
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> You’ll hear the thermostat make a low beep. This means that it’s listening for a command.
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> When the beep sounds, just say “Thermostat”. The thermostat will then make its announcement.
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> If this doesn’t work, try saying thermostat more clearly. Experiment until you find how to do it. The microphone is sensitive enough so it should work from across the room without shouting.
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> After you hear the message, you have 5 seconds to either raise or lower the thermostat setting.
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> Say the word “raise” to raise the setting by one degree.
> Say the word “lower” to lower the setting by one degree.
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> Control Panel Buttons
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> Open the hinged compartment at the front of the thermostat as follows:
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> Put your finger at either edge of the thermostat, near the bottom, and pull outwards. The hinged cover will pull out and swing down, providing you with access to the 10 buttons on the control panel.
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> Here’s how to locate the buttons.
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> At the top left there is a round button with a raised dot. This is the Voice button.
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> Just below it there is a round smooth button, this is the PROGRAM button.
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> At the far right, there is another round button. This is the SHIFT button.
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> At the top center there is a row of three round buttons. The center button has a raised dot.
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> The three buttons are, from left to right, SET TIME, SET DAY, SET TEMPERATURE.
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> At the bottom center there is a row of four rectangular buttons. The four buttons are, from left to right, MORNING, DAYTIME, EVENING, NIGHT.
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> Resetting to factory settings.
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> You can reset the programming and all the other settings back to the factory settings. You might not need to do this procedure, but I’m putting it here because it is so similar to some of the other procedures that you might accidentally reset the thermostat. If you do, you’ll need to reenter all your settings.
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> Swing down the hinged control panel cover.
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> Locate the round SHIFT button at the far right with your right hand.
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> Locate the rectangular MORNING button with your left hand.
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> The Morning button is the left most button of the four rectangular shaped buttons at the bottom of the control panel.
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> If you want to reset your thermostat, hold down the shift button with your right hand, and then press the Morning button with your left hand. If you hold both buttons down for 5 seconds, you’ll hear a sound and the thermostat will be reset.
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> Here’s what it sounds like. (braap)
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> Setting the DAY
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> The thermostat needs to know the correct day in order to function properly. The Day was set by the person who installed the thermostat. In if you reset the thermostat you will have to program in the correct day. Here’s how to set the day:
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> Swing down the hinged control panel cover.
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> Locate the three round buttons at the top of the control panel. The middle button has a raised dot. This is the SET DAY button.
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> Press the SET DAY button. The thermostat will announce the day. Each time you press the button the day will change. Keep pressing the button until you have set the correct day.
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> SETTING THE TIME
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> Before you can use the thermostat, you need to set its clock to the correct time. This was done by the person who installed the thermostat. But after you change the batteries the time must be set again as follows:
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> Swing down the hinged control panel cover.
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> Locate the three round buttons at the top of the control panel. The middle button has a raised dot. The button at the left is the SET TIME button.
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> To set the hour, press the SET TIME button and hold it until the thermostat says “Set the Time”. Now use the raise and lower buttons to change the setting, one hour at a time, until you hear the correct hour.
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> To set the minute, press the SET TIME button again until the thermostat says “Set the Time” again. Now use the raise and lower buttons to change the setting, one minute at a time, until you hear the correct minute.
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> Selecting Fahrenheit or Celsius readings.
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> Your thermostat comes factory set to operate using the Fahrenheit temperature scale. You can change it to read in degrees Celsius as follows:
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> Swing down the hinged control panel cover.
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> Locate the round SHIFT button at the far right. With your right hand, press and hold this button down while you locate the SET TEMPERATURE button.
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> With your left hand, locate the top row of three buttons. The button in the middle has a raised dot. The button next to it, on the right, is the SET TEMPERATURE button.
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> Press this button. The thermostat will say “Celsius” or “Fahrenheit”. Each time you press the SET TEMPERATURE button, you will alternate between the Fahrenheit and Celsius setting.
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> Temperature Swing
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> Your thermostat will not automatically stop heating or cooling when the room reaches the programmed temperature setting. It will continue to heat or cool within 1 degree of the set temperature to help your system work more efficiently and minimize the number of times it cycles on and off. The factory setting is 2 degrees, meaning heating or cooling will continue when the thermostat’s measurement of the room temperature is within plus or minus 1 degree from the thermostat setting. You can set the thermostat temperature swing setting to 1, 2, 4, or 6 degrees. Here’s how.
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> Swing down the hinged control panel cover.
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> Locate the round SHIFT button at the far right. With your right hand, press and hold this button down while you locate the SET TIME button.
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> With your left hand, locate the top row of three buttons. The button in the middle has a raised dot. The button next to it, on the left, is the SET TIME button.
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> Press this button. The thermostat will say”1”, “2”, “4” or “6”.
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> Keep holding the SHIFT button with your right hand, and press the SET TIME button until the thermostat announces the desired number of seconds.
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> Air Conditioning Delay
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> Many air conditioners can be damaged if they are turned off and then immediately back on. To avoid this, after your thermostat turns the air conditioner off, it will wait three minutes before it turns it back on. You should not disable this feature without professional advice, based on your air conditioner’s manual.
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> The previous two procedures, one for choosing Fahrenheit or centigrade, and one for setting the temperature swing, are so similar to the procedure for setting the air conditioner display, that it you can accidentally change the delay setting while performing one of the other procedures. Here is the procedure for turning the delay on and off, so you will know how to rest it if you accidentally turn the delay off.
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> Swing down the hinged control panel cover.
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> Locate the round SHIFT button at the far right. With your right hand, press and hold this button down while you locate the SET DAY button.
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> With your left hand, locate the top row of three buttons. The button in the middle has a raised dot. This is the SET DAY button.
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> Press this button. The thermostat will say ”Oh” or “3”.
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> If the thermostat says O (oh) you have set the delay to 0 minutes and have therefore turned it off.
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> If the thermostat says 3, you have set the delay to 3 minutes and therefore have turned it on.
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> Keep holding the SHIFT button with your right hand, and press the SET DAY button until the thermostat announces the desired delay. The number 3 indicates that the delay is on.
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> Your thermostat has several ways of communicating by voice. In the factory default mode, it responds to your hand claps and your spoken commands. It also speaks to you by giving you information and voice prompts.
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> You can turn the clapper function off. The thermostat won’t recognize your hand claps, but you can activate it with the raise and lower buttons. You can use the raise and lower voice commands to change the thermostat settings.
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> You can turn off the thermostat’s ability to recognize your voice commands. You will have to change the thermostat temperature settings by pressing the raise and lower buttons, but the thermostat will still talk to you.
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> Finally, you can turn off the thermostat’s voice prompts. The thermostat will go silent and you will have to operate it like a normal thermostat, using the liquid crystal display to see how you are changing the settings.
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> You may not want to change any of these settings from the factory defaults, but here are the procedures. You might need one to restore a setting if you accidentally turn it off:
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> VOICE PROMPTS
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> You can disable the voice prompts from the thermostat. A sighted person will be able to operate the thermostat by reading its liquid crystal display. If you don’t hear any voice prompts, you might have accidentally disabled them. Here’s how to turn voice prompts on and off.
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> Open the hinged front cover.
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> Locate the VOICE button at the upper left of the control panel. It has a raised center. Press the button. The thermostat will day “Voice Disabled” or “Voice ON”
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> Each press will alternately turn the voice prompts off and on.
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> If you hear “voice disabled” the thermostat will no give you voice prompts.
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> VOICE Recognition
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> You can disable the thermostat’s ability to recognize voice commands that you give it. If you do, you will have to change the temperature settings by pressing the “raise” and “lower” buttons.
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> Open the hinged front cover.
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> Locate the round SHIFT button at the far right. With your right hand, press and hold this button down while you locate the VOICE button.
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> Locate the VOICE button at the upper left of the control panel. It has a raised center. Press the button.
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> Each press will alternately turn the voice recognition off and on.
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> You will hear “voice disabled” or “voice on” to tell you what the setting is.
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> If you hear “voice disabled” you will no longer be able to adjust the thermostat setting by saying “raise” or “lower” and you won’t be able to use the clapper function to operate the thermostate.
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> Clapper ON/OFF
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> If you don’t want the thermostat to activate when you clap your hands twice, you can disable the clapper feature. You might find that with the clapper feature enabled, some sounds, like a sneeze, might activate the thermostat.
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> If you disable the clapper you will have to press the RAISE or the LOWER button to activate the thermostat. You can still say “raise” or “lower” to change the thermostat settings.
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> Swing down the hinged control panel cover.
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> Locate the round SHIFT button at the far right. With your right hand, press and hold this button down while you locate the EVENING button.
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> With your left hand, locate the bottom row of four rectangular buttons. The third button from the left is the EVENING button. Press this button.
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> You won’t hear a sound, but the clapper function will be disabled. Press the button again and you will hear a tick sound. When you hear this sound the clapper function is enabled.
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> VOLUME
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> You can adjust the volume of the thermostat’s voice messages:
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> Swing down the hinged control panel cover.
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> Locate the round SHIFT button at the far right. With your right hand, press and hold this button down while you locate the PROGRAM button.
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> With your left hand find the round button at the left side. Note that there are two round buttons; one on top has a raised dot. The one on the bottom is the Program button.
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> Press the PROGRAM button and you will hear a beep. Each time you press this button the thermostat will beep and will be set to a new volume level. There are four volume levels. You will need to experiment to find the one you like the best.
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> PROGRAMMING THE THERMOSTAT
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> You can program the thermostat to change the thermostat setting up to four times in a single day. There are 7 buttons that allow you to enter information into the program. There is an additional button, the PROGRAM button, which you must press after you are done entering the information. If you don’t press the PROGRAM button, none of the information that you entered will be saved, and you will have to enter it all over again.
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> The thermostat allows you to program it in two different ways. The first method is the weekdays and weekends method. In this method you select the weekdays and enter the beginning times and the thermostat temperature settings for the Morning Daytime, Evening, and night time periods. Then you press the PROGRAM button and your entries are saved and applied to each weekday, Monday through Friday.
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> Then you select the weekends and enter your data. When you press the POGRAM button, your entries are saved and are applied to Saturday and Sunday.
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> The second method is the individual day’s method. In this method you can select any day of the week and enter any program you want for that day. When you press the PROGRAM button, your information is saved and it is applied only to the day that you selected.
> If you want most of your weekdays or weekends to have the same program, except for one or two differences, you can use the weekdays and weekends method to quickly program your thermostat, and then you can use the individual day’s method to change the specific days that you want to program differently.
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> For example; suppose you only work from Monday to Wednesday and you want to sleep later on Thursday and Friday. You can program all of your weekdays exactly the same using the weekday’s method, and then you can change the program for Thursday so that your morning begins an hour later. That will make your thermostat wait an hour before it raises the heat. Then you do the same thing for Friday.
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> Here’s the procedure to do the programming:
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> Open the hinged compartment at the front of the thermostat.
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> At the top center there is a row of three round buttons. The center button has a raised dot.
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> The three buttons are, from left to right, SET TIME, SET DAY, SET TEMPERATURE.
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> At the bottom center there is a row of four rectangular buttons. The four buttons are, from left to right, MORNING, DAYTIME, EVENING, NIGHT.
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> At the far left, at the bottom, is a round button. This is the PROGRAM button. It does not have a raised dot.
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> You will use these buttons to select the items to be programmed. To change a time setting or a temperature setting, you will use the large raise and lower buttons on the front of the thermostat. These are the buttons with the raised V shaped symbol and the raised upside down V shaped symbol.
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> To more easily use this program, please memorize that the bottom four rectangular buttons read, from left to right, Morning, Daytime, Evening, and Night.
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> Also please memorize that the three round buttons on the top read, from left to right, SET TIME, SET DAY, and SET TEMPERATURE.
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> Here’s how to program all the weekdays so that each day is the same
> Press the MORNING button, the rectangular button on the Left.
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> Press the SET DAY button, the middle round button with the raised dot.
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> Press the SET TIME button. The left round button.
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> Press the raise and lower buttons, as necessary to set the time that the Morning begins.
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> Press the SET TEMP button, the right round button.
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> Press the raise and lower buttons, as necessary to set the thermostat temperature for the morning hours.
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> Press the DAYTIME button, the second rectangular button.
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> Press the SET TIME button on the left and use the raise and lower buttons to set the time that the Daytime period begins.
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> Press the SET TEMPERATUR button on the right and use the raise and lower buttons to set the thermostat setting for the daytime hours.
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> The thermostat will announce a day, or a series of days. Each time you press the SET DAY button, the announcement will change. Press this button until the thermostat says all the days from Monday through Friday.
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> BATTERY REPLACEMENT
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> Before you change the batteries, obtain four fresh size AA batteries. You will remove the thermostat from the wall to change the batteries, so put the batteries on the table where you will work.
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> You will also need to pry the old batteries out of the battery compartment, so get a small screwdriver or a teaspoon or fork. You can use the back of the spoon or fork as a pry bar.
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> Arrange the batteries in a row with the ends with projecting knows facing away from you, so that all the batteries are facing the same way.
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> Now take the second battery from the left and turn it around so that the projecting know is facing you. Do the same thing with the fourth battery, the one on the right.
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> The batteries are now arranged in the position they must be inserted into the thermostat.
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> Now, go to the thermostat.
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> In order to change the batteries, you have to remove the thermostat’s body from the mounting plate. The mounting plate is screwed to the wall.
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> The thermostat is connected to the mounting plate by two plastic hinges at the top. These hinges are not accessible to you.
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> The thermostat is fastened to the mounting plate by two latches at the bottom. You will release these latches so that you can swing the thermostat up on its hinges.
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> There are two areas that you need to press on to release the latches.
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> Here’s how to remove the thermostat.
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> Place your hands at the sides of the thermostat with your thumbs at the bottom of the thermostat. Your thumbs will locate the two switches that project from the bottom of the thermostat.
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> Move your thumbs behind those switches, closer to the wall, and locate a slight depression under each thumb.
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> Grasp the thermostat firmly with your fingers, and press upwards with your thumbs. This will release two catches under the depressions. Then swing the thermostat up and out.
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> Place the thermostat face down on a table in front of you.
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> At the back of the thermostat there is a large depression. Orient the thermostat so that the depression is at the top.
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> At the bottom of the thermostat there are two raised tabs. Between these tabs is the latch to the battery compartment cover.
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> The latch sticks up from a slight depression. Hold the thermostat with one hand and push in on the latch with the thumbnail of your other hand. When the latch releases pull up on it and the hinged cover will open.
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> Inside the battery compartment are four size AA batteries. You must remove these batteries and install new ones in the correct orientation.
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> As you remove a battery, discard it so that it doesn’t get mixed up with the new batteries on your table. Here’s how to remove a battery.
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> Move your hand over the batteries and note that they are close to each other but they don’t touch.
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> Take a small screwdriver or the back of a utensil and put it into the space between two batteries. Pry one of the batteries loose and it should pop out of its retaining clips. Discard the battery. Remove the other batteries the same way.
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> Install the new batteries as follows:
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> First run your hand over the bottom of the battery compartment and note that there are four depressions. You will point a battery into each depression.
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> Take the battery on the left in one hand. Make sure the end with the knob is pointing away from you. Put the battery in the depression at the left side of the battery compartment.
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> Push the battery down until it snaps in place.
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> Pick up the next battery and install it in the second depression, the one next to the battery you just installed. Make sure that the end with the projecting knob is pointed towards you.
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> Install the next battery in the third depression. Make sure that the end with the projecting knob is pointed away from you.
> Install the last battery in the last depression. Make sure that the end with the projecting knob is pointed towards you.
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> Swing down the battery compartment cover and push it closed until it latches.
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> Turn the thermostat over and praise one of the raised symbols on the left or right side of the thermostat.
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> If you hear an announcement, then the batteries were properly installed.
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> At 11:27 AM 3/8/2015, you wrote:
>> Hi my name is Samantha and I was hoping someone on this list could help me
>> with something? I have a kalvin talking thermostat I bought from independent
>> living aids and I lost the manual does anyone know where I can get it on the
>> internet. Please not a pdf I don't know how to read those. Thank you. Any
>> help is grately appreciated.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Electronics-talk [mailto:electronics-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
>> Behalf Of Ashley Bramlett via Electronics-talk
>> Sent: Saturday, July 05, 2014 10:10 PM
>> To: Annette Carr; Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances
>> Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] Home security systems
>>
>> well annette, I don't have an answer. but the frustration of inaccessibility
>>
>> is widespread.
>> At todays convention session, a resolution passed regarding a demand for
>> accessible security systems.
>> Wish I had an answer. I would guess a system where you can punch in your
>> code as you come in would work. you could label buttons as long as its not
>> touch screen.
>>
>> Ashley
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Annette Carr via Electronics-talk
>> Sent: Saturday, July 05, 2014 7:41 PM
>> To: 'Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances'
>> Subject: [Electronics-talk] Home security systems
>>
>> Hello All,
>>
>>
>>
>> Does anyone have recommendations for a company that offers a home security
>> system that is accessible via some other means than having to see the
>> display on the control panel? I'm thinking that if it announced what
>> command was just executed, that would be great. I know that some systems
>> will allow you to dial into it from your phone, but I want more
>> accessibility than this.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Annette
>
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