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A 4510

 Software Programming Guide

7.0 DAYLIGHT SAVING

The A 4510 has an optional Daylight Saving mode which is entered through the Programming Software.
In Australia, some of the states have Daylight Saving which begins at 2am on the first Sunday in October when clocks are 
put forward one hour. It ends at 2am (which is 3am Daylight Saving Time) on the first Sunday in April, when clocks are put 
back an hour.
To initiate the Daylight Saving mode, press the “Add” button on the bottom left of the programming screen under the Day-
light Saving Window. The Daylight Saving window should appear as shown below.

From here the dates can be entered. Select the date for the clocks to move forward and then press OK. The date should 
appear in the Daylight Saving window. Press the “Add” button again to enter the Daylight Saving window once more and 
enter the date for the clocks to move back an hour and then press OK.
For our example we have selected the dates as shown below.

These dates will then appear as shown below in the Daylight Saving window. Daylight Saving mode is now active and will 
take effect at 2am on the specified dates. 

 

NOTE: The daylight saving dates need to be updated every year.

We will save the calendar configuration again by navigating to the “File” menu in the top left corner and selecting “Save”. 
The calendar is now complete.

NOTE: When the save button is pressed the configuration will be saved to the root directory from which the software 

was run. In our case we ran the software directly from the SD card, so all configuration information will be saved to the SD 
card. If we wish to save the configuration elsewhere we could use the “Save As” option which would allow us to navigate 
to another folder. There is no option to save the configuration with a preferred name.

The configuration file is saved to the CONFIG folder and the event group information is saved to the GROUPS folder.

Summary of Contents for Redback A 4510

Page 1: ...cs com au User manual revision number 1 0 03 02 2017 Software Programming Guide A 4510 Yearly Timer Redback Proudly Made In Australia Distributed by Altronic Distributors Pty Ltd Phone 1300 780 999 Fa...

Page 2: ...e the SD card from the rear of the unit To remove the SD card push the card in and it will eject itself Make sure the Windows based device is on and card reader connected and correctly installed Then...

Page 3: ...fault calendar Press OK to confirm the dates The window shown in figure 3 should be created This is where all the timing information will be entered for the calendar year NOTE The colour scheme for th...

Page 4: ...will add Event Groups for public holidays labelled PublicHols and an Event Group for school holidays labelled SchoolHols We can do this by following the same procedure just outlined or we can use the...

Page 5: ...ver the calendar and you will notice that the days will change to the StandardDay group s colour In our example this colour is green Pressing the left mouse button will change the highlighted day to t...

Page 6: ...Day selecting mode Press the left mouse button on these letters to select that day for the entire month as shown in figure 7 or press the right mouse button on the day letter to deselect Fig 7 It is a...

Page 7: ...vent Groups setup we now need to program the events that will occur for these groups In our example we will program the events to occur on a standard primary school day Begin by selecting the Standard...

Page 8: ...The start time is in 24 hour format NOTE The durations for the Prebell Bell Music and Relay outputs can all be set to a default time refer to section 4 0 for more information We will select the output...

Page 9: ...details are entered we press OK to confirm only to receive a error message Unable to save Event This has occurred because there is an overlap of times The PrebellMusic Event and the FirstBell Event ov...

Page 10: ...onfiguration again by navigating to the File menu in the top left corner and selecting Save With the events for the Standard School Day entered its now a matter of entering the events for the other Ev...

Page 11: ...e Defaults window should appear as shown below From here the Weekday Cell colour Weekend Cell colour Month Tile colour and Day Legend colour can be changed to any colour in the full colour spectrum Th...

Page 12: ...fter lunch An event labelled EndLunchMus will sound five minutes before the lunch break finishes to notify the students that they should start to make their way back to class For the output of this ev...

Page 13: ...y as shown in figure 19 Fig 19 We will save the calendar configuration again by navigating to the File menu in the top left corner and selecting Save NOTE When the save button is pressed the configura...

Page 14: ...group manually or we could use the du plicate Event Group function to copy the Standard Day Group and then modify the event The process will be illustrated by the following example We begin by selecti...

Page 15: ...ys Event Group created will now appear in the Event Groups as shown in figure 23 Fig 23 We will then edit the events for the newly created Mondays Event Group and add an assembly at 9 30 am Finally th...

Page 16: ...ow once more and enter the date for the clocks to move back an hour and then press OK For our example we have selected the dates as shown below These dates will then appear as shown below in the Dayli...

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