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INTRODUCTION 4 SELECTING PRESSURE AND TEMPERATURE UNITS 24 CALIBRATING THE BAROMETER 25 WATCH FEATURES 5 ALTI - ALTIMETER MODE 28 WATCH MODES 8 USING THE ALTIMETER 29 SELECTING ALTITUDE UNITS 30 BUTTON FUNCTIONS 9 ALTIMETER PERFORMANCE 31 NORMAL OPERATION 9 CALIBRATING THE ALTIMETER AND CLEARING HIGH AND ACC 32 SETTING OPERATION 11 CHRO - CHRONOGRAPH MODE 34 WATCH DISPLAY SYMBOLS 13 TERMINOLOGY 34 WEATHER FORECASTING 14 USING THE CHRONOGRAPH 35 LAP/SPLIT TIMING 36 NOTES ON CALIBRATING THE ALTIME
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Introduction Watch Features Welcome! Time of Day • Displays hours, minutes and seconds in 12- or 24-hour Thank you for purchasing a TIMEX® EXPEDITION® format for two time zones. adventure tech altimeter watch. The watch is equipped • Displays month and date, as well as day of the week. with a variety of features to enhance your outdoor • Optional hourly chime. experience. So, if you are trekking the trails, skiing the Altimeter slopes or just hanging out, enjoy the journey. • Reports altitude fr
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Barometer Chronograph • Reports air pressure from 8.85 to 32.45 inches of • Time events up to 24 hours with 1/100-second Mercury (“inHg”) (300 to 1100 mbar) with 0.05 inHg resolution. (1 mbar) resolution. • Store up to 30 lap/split times. • Displays current air pressure as well as a graph of • View stored lap times as well as best (shortest) lap change in air pressure over time. time, average lap time and total event time. • Both sea level and local (absolute) air pressure can be Count Down Time
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TIMER - The Countdown Timer is useful for timing INDIGLO® Night-Light fixed-time events ALARM -Five daily alarms to keep you on time Watch Modes TIP: Press and hold the MODE button for three seconds to The features of this watch are grouped into modes that go directly to TIME mode from any other mode in the are accessible by pressing and releasing the MODE button watch. – each depression of the MODE button takes you to the next mode in the loop. The modes are arranged in the Button Functions fo
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Setting Operation When setting Time of Day, Alarms or the Countdown Timer and so on, the button functions change from what is print- ed on the case. NOTE: These setting functions are the same in any mode where you can set a value. START / SPLIT SET 1. Press and hold the SET button. While you are holding INDIGLO® the button, “HOLD ADJUST” will appear on the display. 2. After a couple of seconds, the “HOLD” message will MODE STOP / RESET disappear followed by a flashing value. 3. Change the flashi
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5. Repeat steps 3 and 4 for each of the values you wish Watch Display Symbols to set. TIP: If you accidentally skip past a setting, continue to press and release the MODE button to move all the way through the settings and back to the one that requires adjustment. 6. When you are satisfied that everything is set as intended, press the SET button to save your settings and exit. Alarm is armed (flashing if backup alarm is active) Chronograph is running INCREASE FLASHING VALUE PRESS TO EXIT SETTING
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Weather Forecasting Notes on calibrating the Altimeter and Barometer The watch can predict the weather for the upcoming 4 - 6 The watch relies on a sensitive electronic sensor to hour period based on the air pressure trend information for measure the air pressure and temperature. This sensor the previous twelve hours. The weather forecast is indicated must be calibrated periodically to maintain the high degree at the top of the watch display by a series of symbols. of accuracy you expect from th
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and then again whenever you experience significant reference source available. changes in altitude or temperature during your activity. For example, if you are standing at a trail head and know If you are not using the altimeter feature, then daily the correct altitude, then the most accurate calibration will calibration will maintain the accuracy of the barometer be obtained by calibrating within ALTI mode (since it relies and weather forecasting feature. on altitude as the reference). However,
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jacket (in cold weather) or clipping it to your belt or pack (in the lower display line) and the weather forecast (ideally in an area not constantly exposed to the sun) to (at the top of the display). improve the accuracy of the temperature readings during Setting Time of Day outdoor activities. For the most accurate readings, remove Refer to section entitled “Setting Operation” on page 11 to the watch from your wrist and put in shade for at least understand how the buttons function during sett
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NOTES: Using the Dual Time Zone feature • Be sure you have selected the intended time zone The watch can keep track of the time for two zones (T1 or T2) before you begin setting; you cannot switch (T1 and T2). By default, T1 is the “primary” time zone (the zones while setting (see “Using the Dual Time Zone one that you can see) and T2 is the “secondary” time zone feature” on pg 21). (the one you can’t see). The indicator for the primary time • When setting the hour value, be sure to set to the
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Switching time zones BARO - Barometer Mode If you wish to switch to the secondary time zone, simply Want a better understanding of the forces that influence continue holding the STOP/RESET button until the time the weather? This is the mode to do just that – here you zone indicator (T1 or T2) stops flashing (this takes about can view the current air pressure (local and sea level), three seconds). This will be your new primary time zone monitor the current temperature and study the changes in unt
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When viewing the Time of Day, Sea Level Pressure and Viewing Temperature and Pressure Data Press and release MODE until you see “BARO” on the Temperature group, press STOP/RESET to toggle tempera- ture display units (°F or °C). display. Press and release the START/SPLIT button to view each of NOTE: Unit selection made for temperature and barometric pressure in BARO mode applies to all modes in the watch. the following data combinations: • Temperature, Sea Level Pressure and Local Pressure For ex
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to the section entitled “Notes on calibrating the Altimeter What is “Sea Level Pressure”? and Barometer” on page 15 for general information regard- Sea Level Pressure is simply the air pressure for a specific ing calibration. location adjusted to account for the air pressure difference due to the altitude of the location. Because very few 1. Press and hold SET until the word “SET” appears in the places on the earth are actually at sea level, this adjust- lower line of the display. ment factor wa
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Typically, if you are above sea level, the “local” pressure Using the Altimeter value that the watch also displays will be lower than the Press and release MODE until you see “ALTI” on the dis- sea level pressure (because air pressure decreases with play. After a couple of seconds, the watch will display the altitude) and if you are at a point below sea level the local following data, in the order shown, for two seconds each: pressure will be slightly higher. • The highest recorded altitude (ind
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After the accumulated data is displayed, the watch Altimeter Performance will then display either of the following views of the When ALTI mode is first entered, the watch will update the altitude data: altitude information every two seconds and will continue this fast data update rate for thirty minutes. After thirty • Current time, altitude and temperature data. minutes elapses, if the watch determines that the altitude • A graph of the altitude changes for the last five hours is no longer cha
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the display and the watch will again update the statistical 1. Press and hold SET until the word “CAL” appears in data with altitude information as necessary. the upper line of the display and the sign of the calibration value is flashing. Calibrating the Altimeter and Clearing 2. Press START/SPLIT to adjust the sign (positive for HIGH and ACC altitudes above sea level, negative for altitudes below). Calibration in ALTI mode allows you to calibrate the 3. Press MODE to move on to adjusting the
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8. Repeat steps 6 and 7 to clear the ACC data. track, the lap time would be the time for one lap around 9. Press SET to complete calibration. the track, assuming that you push the START/SPLIT button as you cross the start/finish line each time. CHRO – Chronograph Mode Split Time: The elapsed time from the start of the The Chronograph gives you the ability to time a hike, a ski workout, sometimes called the “total time”. or a run – just about anything you’d like to time. You can “Taking a Lap”: M
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pressing and holding STOP/RESET. Changing the Display Format You may leave CHRO mode while the Chronograph is run- You have the option of viewing either the lap or split time ning; it will continue to run in the background, indicated by in the large digits in the center of the watch display. The the icon on the display when in TIME mode. display format can be changed at any time, though the method changes based on whether or not laps have been Lap/Split Timing taken. The word “LAP” will appear o
