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Customizing Your Timer
ROPING
(Advanced)
The
POLARIS
timer has many features that can be
customized to meet the particular needs of you and
your arena. These items are changed using a “menu”
of different setup options.
Changing settings is easy
:
1)
With the timer stopped, press the SETUP button
to access the setup options.
2)
If the desired option is displayed, do what is in-
structed on the display (usually, just pressing the
ENTER button). Otherwise, press NEXT
CHOICE to show the next available option.
Note the following:
!
You can exit Setup without making a change by
pressing the SETUP key, or by selecting the
Exit
Setup
option when it is displayed.
!
To help you identify the settings currently in use,
an asterisk (
*
) is displayed next to an item when it
is the present setting.
!
Changes you make are permanently saved until
changed again using the Setup menu.
Common Setup Options
(change these as outlined above)
Following are a few Setup options that you may want to change. Use the procedure described above to change
these items. In addition to the items listed here, there are other options that can be changed to customize your
timer
. If the timer is not doing exactly what you need, chances are, it can – call us for assistance!
Rider’s Box Options
The
POLARIS
timer can use either an electric eye
barrier or a rope barrier on the rider’s boxes. Your
timer was preset for whichever option you purchased.
You can switch between barrier types by selecting
one of the following two setup options:
1)
Eye Barrier
– Using an electric eye barrier on
the rider’s box(es).
2)
Rope Barrier
– Using a rope barrier with
barrier release on the rider’s box(es).
Time Expired Horn
To speed up the roping and reduce cattle fatigue, you
may want to set a time limit. By choosing the
Set
Final
Horn
option, you can enter a time limit after
which the horn automatically sounds and time stops.
When the
Set
Final
Horn
option is chosen, the
timer displays the current horn time setting and asks
you to key in a new time. To keep the horn time al-
ready displayed, press the ENTER key. Otherwise,
key-in a new value followed by the ENTER key. To
correct a mistake, press
and hold down
the CLEAR
TIME button until the timer beeps and the time is
cleared to zero (about one second).
Front Loading Rider Boxes
If your arena requires the rider to pass through the
barrier beam as he rides into the box – and this causes
the horn to sound each time – you can change when
the horn is sounded by choosing between the follow-
ing two options:
1)
Horn
with
Rider
– Factory default. The horn
sounds any time the rider's beam is broken and the
timer is not running. For example, the horn will
sound as a rider front loads the box.
2)
Horn
with
Steer
– The horn sounds only if
the rider breaks his beam
and a steer is released.
(The steer must start the timer within two seconds
after the rider's beam is broken.) This option
sounds the horn only when the timer “records” a
fault as described on ROPING card #1
Yet another way of controlling when the horn sounds
is to change the
Auto
Eye
Off
setting.
1)
Auto
Eye
Off
– Select this option to automati-
cally disable all electric eyes after each run. The
timekeeper turns the eyes back on when the next
rider is ready by pressing the EYES ON button.
2)
No
Auto
Eye
Off
– Factory default. The elec-
tric eyes are always enabled. No button presses
are required between riders.
