I looked at a photo of the panel. This is what I make out of it:
-) at the lower part you got the setting for camera-dedicated use. Chose either Olympus, Minolta/Pentax, Nikon, or Canon.
-) then chose either the automatic range A1 or A2 (just to exclude the manual mode)
-) for non-dedicated but auto-exposure set the filn speed at the finer scale above and either A1 or A2
-) for manual use just set M instaead of A1/A2. The flash goes off at full power
-) I'm puzzled by that 4-step fiilm speed setting.
I don't see the use of that. Though it reminds me of power settings used at similar lights for reducing output in the manual mode.