Excalibur electronic Pet Master 464 User Manual
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starting menu gives you the fol-
lowing menu:
COMPRESSED TEXT
SOUND
AUTO-PAGE DOWN
SCROLL SPEED
CONTRAST
Press
UP
or
DOWN
to move through
this
SETUP
menu, then press
ON
/
ENTER
to make a selection. You
can then choose to turn
“COM-
PRESSED TEXT”
or
“SOUND”
either
ON
or
OFF
by scrolling with
the
UP
and
DOWN
keys and then
indicating your choice by pressing
ON
/
ENTER
.
You also can elect to turn
“AUTO-
PAGE DOWN”
either on or off, as
well as determine how quickly
you’d like the pages to scroll when
the mode is turned on. Press
UP
or
DOWN
to scroll to
OFF
and then
push
ON
/
ENTER
if you’d like to
page down yourself when reading a
detailed text (by pushing
NEXT
.) Or
choose between one and eight sec-
onds, and then press
ON
/
ENTER
to
increase or decrease the rate of
which pages scroll automatically.
Select
“SCROLL SPEED”
from the
“SET UP”
menu to choose how
quickly you’d like lines to scroll
from right to left. Press
UP
or
DOWN
to scroll to the desired speed
indicated by the nunbers “
1’
(slow-
est) and
“
8”
(fastest). Press
ON
/
ENTER
to make your selection.
You can also increase of decrease
the contrast of the LCD screen by
selecting
“CONTRAST”
on the
“SET
UP”
menu. Use the
UP
or
DOWN
keys to scroll to the desired contrast
number. (You will see the screen’s
contrast change as you scroll from
1/6 to 6/6.) Then make your selec-
tion by pressing
ON
/
ENTER
. Press
“BACK”
to return to the starting
menu.
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the
“REMINDERS
”
menu, you’re
then asked to choose from the fol-
lowing menu:
FLEA & TICK
HEARTWORM
OTHER
If you select either
“FLEA & TICK,”
or
“HEARTWORM,”
next scroll to
“ALARM ON”
and press
ON
/
ENTER
.
Then press and hold
ON
/
ENTER
until the month begins to flash. Use
the arrow keys to enter the date and
time you’d like to be reminded to
give the heartworm or flea and tick
treatment next, then press
SAVE
or
ON
/
ENTER
. At the appointed time
and date, your alarm will sound to
serve as a reminder that treatment is
due. Press any key to turn the alarm
off. (If you don’t hear the alarm
when it goes off, the screen will still
indicate to you that you need to take
action.)
If you have another kind of medica-
tion for your pet which you’d like
Pet Master help you remember to
give, choose
“OTHER”
from the
reminder menu. Then turn the alarm
to ON by using the
UP
arrow key,
then press
ON
/
ENTER
. Next choose
whether you’d like to be reminded
only once or daily, pressing
ON
/
ENTER
to confirm your choice.
Then hold
ON
/
ENTER
down until
the time begins to flash. Press the
arrow keys, followed by
ON
/
ENTER
, to enter the time you’d
like to be reminded to give the med-
ication.
“SAVED!”
will appear
onscreen. Press any key to turn the
alarm off. (If you don’t hear the
alarm when it goes off, the screen
will still indicate to you that you
need to take action.)
—
SETUP
—
You can change Pet Master’s text
size, turn its sound on or off, and
either turn off the automatic paging
or adjust its speed. You can also
change the speed at which a line
scrolls from right to left, and
increase or decrease the contrast on
the screen.
Selecting
SETUP
from Pet Master’s
—
AUTOMATIC POWER OFF
—
Remember, Pet Master turns itself off if no buttons are
pushed for five minutes. This feature is intended to help
save your battery. Simply press the
ON
/
OFF
key to wake
Pet Master up and return the LCD to its former display.
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—
RETAINING PET MASTER
’
S DATA WHEN
CHANGING THE BATTERY
—
Pet Master warns you when the bat-
tery is getting low with a
“LOW
VOLTAGE”
message on the LCD.
In order to retain any data saved in
Pet Master’s memory, take the fol-
lowing steps: Press and hold
SAVE
two seconds to turn off the unit.
Then remove the old battery and
replace it with a new battery within
one minute. Press
ON
/
ENTER
to turn
Pet Master on again. You’ll be
returned to where you left off.