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FarmTek MD-300 User Manual

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    Md-300 electronic timer user's manual ©1995 farmtek, inc. 1000-d hwy 78 north wylie, tx 75098 (972) 429-0947 (800) 755-6529.

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    Md-300 user’s manual page 1 md-300 user’s manual page 1 (cont’d) congratulations on your timer purchase! Your new timer should provide years of trouble-free service. To maximize the performance and life of your timer, please read this user's manually carefully before using your timer. It is importan...

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    Md-300 user’s manual page 2 md-300 user’s manual page 2 (cont’d) imagine the following: a rider speeds through the light beam to start the timer. Unfortunately, her hat blows off and falls through the light beam and stops the timer! Nor- mally, the rest of her ride is wasted, but by pressing the re-...

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    Md-300 user’s manual page 3 md-300 user’s manual page 3 (cont’d) md-300 setup options display description electric eye alignment status good / bad alignment status of the electric eye plugged into the receiver jack. Good a / bad a alignment status of electric eye plugged into the aux jack. Displayed...

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    Md-300 user’s manual page 4 md-300 user’s manual page 4 (cont’d) timer setup - checking electric eye alignment to work properly, the infrared light source (transmitter) and infrared light detector (receiver) must be properly aligned. The procedure for aligning the electric eyes is discussed in detai...

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    Md-300 user’s manual page 5 md-300 user’s manual page 5 (cont’d) "barrel" - barrel racing, pole bending, etc. Time format: counting up in seconds to .001 warn. Horn: none final horn: none operation: a single pair of electric eyes both starts and stops the timer. "rope 1" - roping, bull dogging, goat...

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    Md-300 user’s manual page 6 md-300 user’s manual page 6 (cont’d) "eqst 2" - show jumping (equestrian) time format: counting up in seconds to .001 warn. Horn: none final horn: none operation: the timer is started with one pair of electric eyes and stopped by a second pair of electric eyes (oe-205 ele...

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    Md-300 user’s manual page 7 md-300 user’s manual page 7 (cont’d) timer setup - setting the warning and final horn times the md-300 timer can be configured to automatically sound a warning horn (after which the timer continues to run), and a final horn, at which time the timer stops. The timer forces...

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    Md-300 user’s manual page 8 md-300 user’s manual page 8 (cont’d) time for that event. The factory default values for these pa- rameters for each event are shown in the "event summary" table. If desired, you may alter these automatically selected parameters so that your own values are set whenever a ...

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    Md-300 user’s manual page 9 md-300 user’s manual page 9 (cont’d) the electric eyes the infrared light source (transmitter) outputs an invisible light beam that is detected by the infrared light detector (receiver). When the light beam between them is broken, the timer is either started, stopped or b...

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    Md-300 user’s manual page 10 md-300 user’s manual page 10 (cont’d) if the batteries in the transmitter are not used for long peri- ods of time, they should be given a full charge every three months or so. Note that even if you always run the transmit- ter from electricity, but never charge it, the b...

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    Md-300 user’s manual page 11 md-300 user’s manual page 11 (cont’d) remove the receiver or transmitter. Align the unit on the tripod such that the long tripod handle extends towards you and the rear of the unit faces you. Aligning the electric eyes the infrared light from the transmitter is emitted i...

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    Md-300 user’s manual page 12 md-300 user’s manual page 12 (cont’d) simultaneous operation of two md-300 timers if your event requires simultaneous operation of two com- plete timers (both timers start and stop at the same time and provide backup for each other), the md-300 electronic timer can provi...