Congratulations on your purchase of Optiplug,
the intelligent socket that switches appliances
on when you have electricity to spare.
Optiplug can be used for any appliance using
electricity that doesn’t need to be switched on
manually (unlike most washing machines) and
doesn’t mind being interrupted.
Optiplug assumes you already have a Wattson
Solar Plus or other Wattson that measures
generated and used electricity. You will need to
have its transmitter to hand.
LED indicator
Calibration hole
Button
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Optiplug
instructions
1. Pair Optiplug with your transmitter.
As Optiplug gets its information from the
transmitter, the first stage is to pair them.
Power Optiplug by connecting it the mains
(if powered on for the first time, Optiplug is
ready to be paired, otherwise you need to
ensure it is in automatic mode, see page 4).
Hold down the Button for 6 seconds, until the
red LED starts to blink.
Within 60 seconds, hold down the transmitter
button until its red LED is constant, bringing
it into pairing mode.
When successfully paired, the LED on the
Optiplug will flash quickly 5 times and will
then remain in pairing mode.
Optiplug will keep searching for available
pairing signals for 60 seconds, so more
transmitters can be paired at this stage.
After 60 seconds, Optiplug automatically exits
pairing mode and the LED turns off.
Confirm Optiplug is receiving information from
the transmitter by checking
both Optiplug and
transmitter LEDs are flashing simultaneously.
Note.
If pairing is made for a transmitter already
paired with Optiplug, the LED will still flash to
indicate successful pairing.
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To un-pair Optiplug from the transmitter:
Press the Button four times quickly in
succession.
The LED will flash 10 times to confirm
pairings with all transmitters have been
cleared.
2. Calibrate with your appliance.
Once Optiplug is paired with your transmitter,
it is ready to learn the power of your appliance
so it can turn it on when there is
enough
surplus
power and switch it off when there is no longer
surplus energy available. The calibration process
must be completed for Optiplug to be fully
automatic.
Plug the chosen appliance into Optiplug. Now
switch on the appliance in the mode you
intend to use it in (e.g. the two bar setting on
a fan heater).
Insert a pin, or equivalent, into the calibration
hole. The appliance will turn on and the red
LED will flash twice a second while Optiplug
is calibrating.
Calibration takes three minutes, after which
the LED will stop flashing. DO NOT switch off
the appliance during this time, as Optiplug is
measuring the peak power.
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