Accusplit AX602M500 User manual

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ACCUSPLIT, Inc.
6120 Stoneridge Mall Rd., Suite 210
Pleasanton, CA 94588 USA
800-965-2008 • 925-226-0888 • FAX [phone]
www.ACCUSPLIT.com • [e-mail]
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ACCUSPLIT®
EXCLUSIVE
AX602M500
AX602M500DEC
DIGITAL QUARTZ
STOPWATCHES
OPERATING
INSTRUCTIONS
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IMPORTANT NOTE
This stopwatch can store up to 500 split/lap times.
However please note when there are 5 free mem-
ories left, the icon “FULL” will blink to remind you
of the nearly full situation. Whenever the storage
is full, extra split/lap times will NOT be stored into
memory even though you reset your stopwatch
and start a new event. Extra split/lap times will
only be shown on the display but not recorded.
In order for the stopwatch to record the lap/split
times again, you must delete the data in the DATA
memory. Please refer to the “Data Mode” section
in the instruction manual for how to delete the
memory.
INSTRUCTIONS
Introduction
You are about to enjoy an advanced Cumula-
tive and Lap memory professional digital quartz
stopwatch with advanced timing features. Models
AX602M500 & AX602M500DEC Stopwatches
include Time of day, Daily Alarm, Chronograph
stopwatch, 500 memory, Data register, Count-
down timer, Stroke Measurement timer, and Pacer
(from 5 to 240 beats per minute).
Model AX602M500DEC Decimal Stopwatch
includes Decimal timing (1/100 of a sec,
1/1000 of a minute, 1/100,000 of an hour).
Model AX602M500 Speed Stopwatch includes
Speed Measurement.

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General Features
• ACCUSPLIT X case with ergonomic design and
no-fail buttons
• 4 button operation
• Large LCD display with contrast adjustment
• 12/24 hour display
• Time of day and chime
• Daily alarm
• Full 1/100 second chronograph with working
range from 0 to 19 hr. 59 min. 59.99 seconds
with 500 memory records of split and lap time.
• Recall function for recorded split and lap times
• Count-Down timer with working range from 0 to
19 hr. 59 min. 59.9 seconds
• Three operating modes (Countdown Repeat,
Countdown Stop, Countdown then count up)
for countdown timer
• Stroke/Stride measurement basing on “3”
• Speed measurement (AX602M500 Model only)
• Decimal second, minute and hour chronograph
(AX602M500DEC Model only)
• Beep sound selectable
• Uses long life Lithium CR2032 battery for years
of use between battery changes
• Low battery check
The operation of the stopwatch is divided into
nine modes. As you choose each “mode”, a
message will be displayed for a second before
you enter the mode:
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Button Operation
• MODE - used to
change the watch’s
operating mode
• START • SPLIT - used
to start the timer or
stopwatch, and for taking
split and lap times
• RECALL - used to recall recorded split
and lap times (memories)
• STOP • RESET - used to stop and reset the
stopwatch or timer
TIME
Speed mode
(AX602M500 only)
Normal Time mode
Alarm mode
SPEED
ALARM
Chronograph mode
CHRONO
LapTime Recall mode
RECALL
Data mode
DATA
Timer mode
TIMER
Pacer mode
PACER
Stroke Measurement
STROKE
RECALL
SPLIT
or
STOP
Press MODE to cycle through:

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This is only a brief description of these buttons.
Detailed uses of the buttons are different in
particular functions and will be described later in
the instructions.
Pressing [MODE] button will toggle among the
modes above. Note that there is no auto-return
function in the stopwatch. Whenever you change
modes, the stopwatch will remain in that mode
until the [MODE] button is pressed again.
Time of Day Mode
The starting point for operating your stopwatch
is TIME OF DAY. If TIME OF DAY is not displayed,
press [Mode] until it is.
Year : - 2008
Date : - January 1
Day of week : - Monday
Time : - 12:00 am
The display format is as below :
°year
°day, month - date
°hr : min second
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During clock display, press [START • SPLIT] to
switch between 12 hr and 24 hr display mode.
To toggle chime ON or OFF, you can press [STOP
• RESET].The bell icon will be ON or OFF corre-
spondingly.
Normal Time Setting
Press and hold [RECALL] (S1) for 2 seconds to
enter setting mode.The normal time setting starts
with second.The second digits will be flashing.
You can change the flashing digit by pressing
[START • SPLIT] (S3) button.To speed up the
setting you can press and hold [START • SPLIT]
for longer than 2 seconds to activate fast set-
ting.To select other digits, press [STOP • RESET]
(S2) button.The setting order is: Second, Minute,
Hour, Year, Month, Date, month-date (m-d) or
MODE
Year
Month and date
Seconds
Minutes
Hour
ACCUSPLIT products use a common setting procedure known
as S1-S2-S3-S4.
S1 (2 sec) - Enter set function OR
S1 (4 sec) - Enter set function & clear the current settings
S2 – Select field to be set (selected field will flash)
S3 – Set field to desired settings
S4 – Exit setting function
S3
S1/S4
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date-month (d-m), Sound ON or OFF, Contrast
(darkness of the digits - default is 9), then back to
Second, and recycles again.
Note: when the second is to be set, press [START
• SPLIT] to reset the second digits to zero. At the
end of setting, press [RECALL] (S4) or [MODE] to
exit from the setting mode and back toTime of
Day Display.
Display for Sound ON or
OFF setting :
(Let the current status be “ON”.)
Press [START • SPLIT] to toggle
Sound ON or OFF.
Display for contrast adjustment:
(Let the current contrast be “5”)
Press [START • SPLIT] conse-
cutively to advance the contrast
up to 16, then cycle back to 1.
The contrast setting will be
shown on the display.
NOTE:
• The hour digits may be displayed in 12 hr or
24 hr format.
• The year digits can be set from 2000 to 2099.
The date adjusts automatically for odd and even
months including February of leap years.The
day of week also adjusts automatically after you
set the date.
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Alarm Time Mode
Press [MODE] until you enter Alarm mode.This
mode is used for displaying the daily alarm time
and allows you to enable or disable the alarm.
When you enter the AlarmTime mode, the display
shows the alarm time on the upper line while the
date is shown in the middle of the display and the
normal time is on the lower line.
°AlarmTime
°day, month - date
°hr : min second
To toggle the alarm ON or OFF, press [STOP • RESET].
When alarm is ON, the indicator “ ” will be ON
while it will be turned off when alarm is disabled.
When alarm time is reached, the alarm signal will
sound for 60 seconds. Press any button to stop the
alarm sound.
Setting Alarm Time
Press and hold [RECALL] (S1) for 2 seconds to ac-
tivate the alarm setting.The alarm “minute” digits
will flash as an indication. Adjust the flashing digit
by pressing [START • SPLIT] (S3).To set the alarm
hour digits, press [STOP • RESET] (S2) to switch to
hour digits and then press [START • SPLIT] (S3) to
adjust. Press [RECALL] (S4) or [MODE] to exit from
Alarm setting mode.
Alarm
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Chronograph and Recall Mode
Press [MODE] until you enter the Chrono mode.
The stopwatch can measure up to 19 hours,
59 minutes, 59.99 seconds. When you enter the
Chronograph mode, the display format is as
below.
The upper line shows the split time, the middle
line shows the lap time and the accumulated
elapsed time is displayed on the lower line.
Whenever the stopwatch stops running, the
“STOP” indicator will be ON. Press the button
[START • SPLIT] to start the stopwatch. As it runs,
the current elapsed time is shown on the lower line.
°Split time
°Lap time
°Cumulative time
Split
counter
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To take a current split or lap time, press [START •
SPLIT].The display will look like this:
The number of split/lap times taken are shown in
the upper left corner.The corresponding split and
lap times are displayed on the upper and middle
line. Press [START • SPLIT] again, the next split/lap
time will be shown and the number of split/lap
time is updated.
The stopwatch can store up to 500 split/lap times.
The split/lap times are stored into the memory as
you press [START • SPLIT] to take each split/lap
time. Meanwhile, the lap and split time will be
frozen for 5 seconds. After this 5-second period,
the lap and split time will return to normal.
In addition, the fastest lap, the slowest lap, and the
averages of all laps will also be recorded. As you
press [STOP • RESET] to stop the chronograph, the
last lap/split time will also be stored (provided that
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When there are 5 free memories left, the icon
“FULL” will blink to remind you of the nearly
full situation. Whenever the storage is full, extra
split/lap times will not be stored into memory but
will still be shown on the display. Any fastest and
slowest laps will not be stored.The memory coun-
ter will flash as the extra split/lap times are being
displayed.The icon “FULL” will be steadily ON.
The maximum memory counter value is 500.
To stop the chronograph, press [STOP • RESET].
The indicator “STOP” will come on again to show
the status. Press [STOP • RESET] as the stopwatch
stops to reset the stopwatch while the split/lap
times will be kept in memory. When the stopwatch
starts running from reset state, all the lap memo-
ries will be cleared.
Decimal Timing
(AX602M500DEC model only)
1. The DEC Model can operate as a normal 1/100
second chronograph as well as decimal minute,
decimal second, and decimal hour chronograph.
As you press [MODE] to enter the chronograph
mode, the normal 1/100 second chronograph
display will be shown.
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Reset the chronograph to 00, then press [STOP
• RESET] to cycle through the time base modes.
(1/100s). Note the change by looking at the bottom
of the display.
Change to the 1/1000 of a minute chronograph
mode by pressing [STOP • RESET] again.
(1/1000M)
Go to the 1/10,000 hour chronograph by pressing
[STOP • RESET] again. (1/10,000H)
Time base indicator
Time base indicator
Time base indicator

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Please note that if the stopwatch is running, no
selection for chronograph operating modes can
be made until the stopwatch has been stopped
and reset.
Segmented run memory for lap/split time storage.
A header consisting of the date/time stamp is
attached to each segment to indicate the moment
when you began recording the particular timing
segment.To get to this feature, press [MODE] in
chronograph mode to enter DATA mode when
the stopwatch has been stopped. Records for dif-
ferent segments can be recalled, read or deleted.
Detailed operation in “DATA” mode is described in
Data Mode section later in this manual.
Chronograph Data Recall Mode
Press [RECALL] in Chronograph mode to recall
stored split/lap time memories.The mode message
will be shown up for one to two seconds as mode
message display is enabled.
The split and lap time will be displayed on the
upper and the middle line respectively.The lower
line shows the elapsed time between “start” and
this split.
RECALL
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During data recall, the fastest lap time will be
reviewed first.
View the slowest lap time by pressing [RECALL]
again.
Press [RECALL] again to view the average lap time.
Note: Press [RECALL] continually to review all
the stored split/lap times.The sequence starts
from the last record to the first record when the
stopwatch is running and vice versa when the
stopwatch has been stopped.
Recall indicator
(memory)
Fastest Lap Time indicator
Slowest Lap Time indicator
Average Lap Time indicator

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[RECALL]
[RECALL]
[RECALL]
[RECALL]
[RECALL]
After recalling the first record, press [RECALL]
once more to exit from Recall mode and go back
to chronograph mode.The “RECALL” icon will
turn OFF.
Note: watch is
still running
so run time
continues to
advance.
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DATA Mode
Press [MODE] until you enter DATA mode. The
mode message “DATA” will be shown for one to
two seconds before the number of free memories
is to be shown.
You can press [START • SPLIT] to scroll through all
segments.The current segment will come first.
[RECALL]
During memory recall, you can press either
[START • SPLIT] or [STOP • RESET] to exit from
chrono recall mode and jump to the chrono
start/stop or lap state respectively.
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Recall indicator turns off
when watch returns to
regular Chronograph mode.
Segment indicator
shows watch is in
DATA mode
Segment indicator
shows watch is in
DATA mode
Date/Time
Stamp for
this split

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The header consisting of the date/time stamp will
be shown.The number of laps in the segment will
appear in the upper left while the segment num-
ber is displayed in the middle left. If the segment
shown is not your desired segment, press [START
• SPLIT] to reach the desired segment.The current
segment will be accessed first, then it will cycle
back to the 1st, then 2nd and so on.
When you have found the segment you want, you
can press [RECALL] button consecutively to read
the lap records from the first to the last lap.
As you continue to press [RECALL] during the dis-
play of the last lap, you can advance to the next
segment by pressing [START • SPLIT]. The front
page of the segment will be shown. Say the next
segment is SEG 1.
How to delete individual memory segments:
Search the desired segment first as described
above. During the display of the segment front
page, press and hold [STOP • RESET] for 2 sec-
Number of laps in
this segment
Segment number
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onds to activate Delete One function. “DELETE
ONE” will be shown in blinking and beep sound
will be generated.
A “ready” period of 2 seconds will be counted. At
the end of the ready period, all the lap records of
the corresponding segment will be erased, and a
long beep sound will be heard.Then the display
will show the next segment. If you don’t want
to delete the records, you can press any key to
exit from delete ready state before the end of the
ready period.The watch will go back to displaying
the segment front page.
How to delete all memory segments:
Instead of deleting one segment, you can also
delete all memory segments. When you enter the
Data mode, you see the screen “FREE XXX LAP”.
Press and hold the [STOP • RESET] for 3 seconds.
You will hear “Beep, beep, beep” for 3 seconds,
then a long “Beep”. At this point all data in the
memory will be deleted and “DELETE ALL“ will
show on the display.
If you don’t want to delete the records, you can
press any key to exit “DELETE ALL“ state before
the end of the ready period to return to the seg-
ment front page display.
dELETE
ALL
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Note:You cannot delete all segments while the
stopwatch is running. If nothing happens when
you push and hold [STOP • RESET] check to
make sure the stopwatch is stopped.
Timer Mode
Press [MODE] until you enter theTimer mode.
3 count-down operation modes are available on
this stopwatch:
• Count down repeat (CR)
• Count down stop (CS)
• Count down, then count up (CU)
The timer is set at the factory to the count-down
repeat (CR) mode. At entering timer mode, the
mode message “TIMER” will be shown for a sec-
ond before timer count mode is displayed.
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The upper line shows the programmable timer
value (initially set at 0:00:00:0) while the middle
line displays the current timer counting.Time of
Day clock display is at the lower line of the dis-
play. “CR” indicates the current timer operating
mode while the timer cycle counter is located at
the upper left of the display.
Before starting the timer, enter a countdown time
first. Then press [START • SPLIT] to start timer
running. When the timer counts down to zero, a
3 second “beep…beep” sound will be generated
for a timer setting within one minute; 15 second
“beep…beep” sound for 1 minute to 10 minutes
setting and 30 second “beep…beep” sound for
over 10 minutes. Pressing any key will stop the
beep sound.
Under CR operating mode, the timer value will
be reloaded and count down will start again.The
timer cycle counter will be increased by one and
updated on the display.
Under CS operating mode, the timer, after count-
ing down to 0:00’00”, will stay at 0:00’00”0 until you
press [STOP • RESET] to reload the timer value.
Under CU operating mode, the timer, after
counting down to 0:00’00”0, will count up and
stop at 19:59’59”9.
Time in Countdown
Repeat mode
Time of day
Number of cycles Timer setting
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How to set the timer
Press and hold [RECALL] (S1) for 2 seconds to
activate timer setting.Timer setting starts with
second digits, which are shown blinking.You can
press [START • SPLIT] (S3) to advance the flashing
digits. Or you can press [STOP • RESET] (S2) to
select other digits.The setting follows the
sequence: second, minute, hour and timer
operating mode (CR, CS and CU).
NOTE:You can only set Hour, Minute and Seconds.
The 1/10 second cannot be set.
Press and hold [RECALL]
for 2 seconds.Timer
setting starts with
second digits.
Press [STOP • RESET] (S2)
to move to minute digits.
Press [STOP • RESET] (S2)
further to go to hour digits.
Hour digits can be adjusted
from 0 to 19.
Press [STOP • RESET] (S2)
again to adjust the operating
mode. Press [START] to switch
the operating modes among
CR, CS and CU.
At the end of setting, press
[RECALL] (S4) or [MODE] to
leave setting mode.
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Pacer Mode
Press [MODE] until you enter the Pacer mode.
In the Pacer mode, you can set the standard
pacer speed from 5 to 240 beats per minute in
the following values:
5, 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 80, 100, 120, 150, 180,
200, 240
In Pacer mode, the display will be:
°5 beats per minute
The digits are flashing to indicate that the pace
count is ready for setting. Press [STOP • RESET] to
select the pace count. Once the desired pace count
is selected, press [START • SPLIT] to confirm the
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setting and start the pace count.The display will
show the elapsed time on the upper line, the pace
count number on the middle and the pace count
value on the lower display.
°Elapsed time
°Pace count number
°PACE count
Press [STOP • RESET] to stop the pace count; the
display will freeze.To restart the
pace count, press [START • SPLIT]
again. Or press [STOP • RESET]
to reset the time elapsed and the
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Stroke/Stride Measurement
Press [MODE] until you enter the Stroke Measure-
ment mode.The display will be as follows.
In the Stroke or Strides Measurement mode,
the duration of 3 strokes is taken and the stroke
frequency (counts per minute) is calculated. If the
stroke frequency falls out of the range of 10 - 180,
“Err” will appear to show the error condition.
Press [START • SPLIT] to start the measurement.
During the 1st second, 180.0 will be shown and
flashing as below.
STROkE
0.0
At the end of the first second, the display will
become steady.
If measurement is stopped in the first second
(stroke frequency > 180), error signal “ Err “ will
be shown. After the first second has elapsed,
the instantaneous measurement reading will
be shown. When you press [STOP • RESET], the
display will show the steady stroke measurement
reading. If the measurement lasts for more than
18 seconds (stroke frequency < 10), an error signal
“Err” will be displayed. When the measurement
is stopped, press [STOP • RESET] to reset the
displayed reading to “0.0”.
STROkE
180.0
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Speed Mode (AX602M500 Model only)
Press [MODE] until you enter the Speed mode.
The display will be as follows.
°Distance
°Lap time
°Total time
(Note that the default setting is KM. Hence “KM”
icon will be ON.)
The upper line shows the distance or speed.The
lap time is in the middle line, while the total time
is displayed on the lower line.
In Speed mode, you can record a number of lap
times and speeds for covering the distance you
program into the chronograph. Before starting to
use the Speed mode, you need to enter the dis-
tance as explained below. Otherwise, the speed
measurement won’t work. Nothing will happen
when you press [START • SPLIT].
Distance Setting
Press [RECALL] (S1) for 2 seconds to enter setting
mode.The unit icon flashes.
Distance units
Distance indicator (only
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Press [START • SPLIT] (S3) to toggle between
KM and MILE.To select the following digits,
press [STOP • RESET] (S2).The far right digit will
blink and you can set the distance from the least
significant digit to the most significant digit.The
distance can be set in the range 0.000 to 1999.999
km (or ML) using [START • SPLIT] (S3). Press
[RECALL] (S4) or [MODE] to exit from the setting
mode.
As an example, the distance is set at 400m.
°0.4 km = 400m
°Stop indicator
Speed Mode Running
Press [START • SPLIT] to start the Speed timer.
The “STOP” indicator is OFF. The maximum time
can be up to 19 hr. 59 min. 59.99 sec.
While the timer is running, press [START • SPLIT]
to record the lap time and the corresponding
speed (in km/hr or mph) will be displayed on the
upper line.The lap counter (shown on the upper
left corner) will advance by one.
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Press [START • SPLIT] to record more lap times
and show different speeds. Note that as the speed
exceeds the value 1999.999 km/hr or 1999.999
mph, “Err” will be shown and no storage will be
made for that record.
[START • SPLIT]
[START • SPLIT]
To stop the speed measurement, press [STOP •
RESET] to stop the timer.
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both the speed and elapsed time can be retrieved.
Lap Time & Speed Recall
Similar to the Chrono Recall mode, during speed
measurement or Stop state, you can press
[RECALL] to recall the speed/lap memories.
The Mode message will be shown for one to
two seconds as the Mode message display is
displayed.
The Speed and Lap time will be displayed on the
upper and the middle lines.The lower line shows
the current time counting. During Data recall, the
fastest speed will be reviewed first, then the slow-
est speed and average speed.
Before starting again, you can reset the timer by
pressing [STOP • RESET].
Note: When you reset the Speed timer, the speed
measurement starts again from a reset state, and
all speed records in memory will be cleared (pro-
vided that the storage is not under segmented run
memory mode).
The Recall function is similar to chronograph
recall. If segmented run memory is selected, the
DATA mode can be accessed and records storing
RECALL
Speed Mode
after reset.
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Further presses of [RECALL] will retrieve the
memories in ascending order or reverse order
depending on whether the speed measurement is
stopped or under operation respectively. During
Recall, the “Recall” indicator is ON.
(Note: Speed mode and Chrono mode will
not run simultaneously. When Chrono mode
is active, Speed mode should be in reset
state and vice versa.)
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