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WHAT IS A PROGRAMMER?
General Description
Your Honeywell ST9400C provides timing control for both your central heating and 
hot water systems, letting you set ON and OFF periods to suit your own lifestyle. 
The ST9400C does not directly control the temperature but works together with other 
temperature controls, such as room thermostats and cylinder thermostats, to control 
your heating and hot water system in your home.
With 7-day programming and up to 3 on/off periods per day, every day can be set 
differently, and heating and hot water can be set at different times from each other.
The  following  instructions  explain  how  to  programme  and  use  the  ST9400C  to 
provide the most home comfort at the least cost.
The way to use a Programmer
Think about the time periods when you are typically in the house and when you are 
not, and also the times when you use a lot of hot water. These are the times you 
should  use  as  the  basis  for  the  programmes.  It  will  be  necessary  to  allow  some 
heat-up time for the heating system after periods when it has been off – this would 
typically be 1 - 1½ hours, depending on your house and your preferences.
Other features are commonly available on the Programmer to enhance comfort and 
convenience, for example, OVERRIDE, EXTRA HOUR, and MODE buttons.
A typical use of the OVERRIDE feature is when you return home unexpectedly for 
the rest of the day and the heating is off. Just press the OVERRIDE button and the 
heating will come on until the next programme time, at which point it will follow the 
normal  programme. The  advantage  here  is  that  you  do  not  have  to  remember  to 
switch off because the normal time programme does this for you.
A typical use of the EXTRA HOUR button would be if you returned to the house for 
a short period when  the heating and hot water were off. Pressing the appropriate 
EXTRA HOUR button gives you 1, 2, or 3 hours of heating, exactly when you need 
it. Another typical use is when the heating is already on and you want it to stay on a 
little longer - just press EXTRA HOUR and, for that day only, an hour will be added 
to the end of the time at which heating normally goes off.
The  MODE  buttons  allow you  to  select how  you  want  to  operate  heating  and  hot 
water  independently.  The  most  obvious  use  is  to  switch  heating  OFF  during  the 
summer months, but you may also use this feature if you take a mid-week day off 
work, you can then set the MODE to ONCE to keep the system ON during the day 
from the first programmed ON time till the last programmed OFF time.