It seems to time out faster the more it's taxed by activities such as fighting. Actual usage time is unknown (between ten and twenty minutes, most commonly ten), and can time out at inopportune moments. Recalibrated Original Ten9 In active mode The default mode for the Omnitrix which means it can be used and that it has recharged. The Master Control mode does not have this problem. Occasionally, the Omnitrix's safeguard mode initiates and randomly transforms Ben into another alien that he did not choose. These colors signify the state that the Omnitrix is presently in. The inside of the hourglass shape glows in different colors at special moments. When it recalibrated it gained a more watch-like shape, a green wristband, became smaller and sleeker, and the face dial became black and green. Omnitrix original look before it was Recalibracated In the first form that Ben Tennyson encountered, the Omnitrix looked like a wristwatch, primarily black and grey in color, with a gra Active Recalibrated Omnitrix (or black) dial in the middle (like a watch face) which has a green hourglass shape (actually the intergalactic 'peace' symbol, also on Plumber's Badges and Azmuth's homeworld) on it.
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