Initial Setup

CHECK DAILY! I AM UPDATING IT TO MAKE MY LIFE EASIER

Just got your remote? This is what you want to read. I spent years making the remote complicated as shit. now, I have to make easy to use and setup despite a learning curve that will not allow you to understand it on your first day. Just how it is. But this page and the subsequent ones will get you working.

Let’s call them “Confidence Checks” called CC for short. Just made that up. but, it’ll work.

Confidence Check #1: Let’s get you to acknowledge the hand remote battery power. When you turn on your hand remote (full depress of that black looking button on the face left of the dial), your hand remote will flash up that nifty bat logo, then immediately display the battery bar to the left. it will fade away after five seconds so pay attention. There you go, that’s the battery power. Might as well leave it plugged in the first night as I don’t charge new remotes. but they usually have 30% juice in them. Congrats, if you got CC#1, move on to CC#2

Confidence Check #2: This is not the day your welding. don’t need no drama. You can plug your receiver in a wall socket and play with it without your welder. If you plug it in, roughly seven seconds after, it will be accepting input from the hand remote. I just turn the dial a bit and whammo you should see a number. go to min maybe you get a “30” go to max, maybe you get a “300” that’s just what I put in there. I don’t know what your welder’s minimum is going to be (I do but not close enough) and on a miller, the max is what you set it. On a Lincoln, the dial is bypassed so its the normal max. We should do a practice calibration. You know, one inside when your relaxed instead of in front of your diesel sending me emails. So, chalk up CC#2 as a win and let’s do a practice, no stress calibration in CC#3

Confidence Check #3: Here we are, the most important confidence check of them all. gotta layman the shit out of this one. 3a) ensure the receiver is on 3b) make sure your hand remote is off, then turn it back on while holding the green button down (keep holding till you see numbers) 3c) done right, the fifth led from left bottom row is lit when displaying numbers 3d) sweep your dial to max, then to min and continue at a natural pace until the screen dims 3e) turn the dial down to enter the number 4 (any other number, go back to 3b) 3f) enter the number 5 (put your dial to min gives you 5 if the previous number was 4) 3g) it shall say calibrate and you will enter the number desired say 50 <- just get close to it as it will say refine and be less touchy once you enter it for a second time. 3h) same as the min but now the max say 200. 3i) now that your done, does your calibration resemble anything near 50 to 200. I mean does your three turn at min show 50ish and the max show 200. 3j) if it does, it seems you performed a successful calibration. You can try one more fake one before trying the real deal. Biggest mistake when attempting a calibration, is 3B. Step 3B is to protect you from a helper accidentally going into the sub menus. its happened. Don’t proceed if you don’t understand CC#3. Sleep on it. think about it. If you don’t get it and move past this point, ill know. see also dkwremotes.com/blog/calibrate

Confidence Check #4: to be written on 06/12