General; Installing The Back Can In The Ceiling Procedure (For Suspended Ceiling); Figure 24 Cutout Template Dimensions; Figure 25 Installing A C-Ring Support Plate Onto Tile Bridge Support Rails - Community Distributed Design D4LP Installation And Operation Maintenance Owner's Manual

Installing the Back Can in the Ceiling
You will of course lay out the loudspeaker

General

locations according to the requirements of
the specific installation and in compliance
with applicable safety and building codes. It
is beyond the scope of this manual to pro-
vide guidance in this area. Community does,
however, offer our Forecaster ceiling system
software to assist you in distributed loud-
speaker system design. Please visit the Prod-
uct Selection area of Community website for
this software.
We also encourage you to use the provided
seismic safety tabs to secure the back cans
to the building structure. Again, please be
guided by applicable building codes here; we
cannot provide detailed rigging instructions
due to the wide global variations in such
codes and practices.
Procedure (for suspended ceiling)
Note: The optimum situation for installation
is into a ceiling where the suspension grid
is installed and the tiles have not yet been
placed. We designed this series to facilitate in-
stallation into an already-placed ceiling, and
we are writing the instructions to conform
to this more restrictive condition. So when
we say something like, "pass the tile bridge
support rails through the can cutout," and the
adjacent space is unobstructed, of course you
should feel free to use the more sensible alter-
native and just drop the rails into place.
1. Mark the hole location on the ceiling tiles
and, using the cutout template provided with
your Distributed Design Series loudspeakers,
cut a hole to the precise size. See Figure 24.
2. Insert the bridge support rails through
the can cutout and position them across the
rails on either side of the cutout, approxi-
mately as far apart as the clips on the C-ring
support plate. See Figure 25.
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Figure 24 Cutout template dimensions

Note: The bridge support rails each have a
raised rib with a flat stabilizing flange on
one side which keeps the rail from tipping
toward the loudspeaker it is supporting.
For this reason, be sure to place the rails
so that these stabilizing flanges are facing
3. Guide the C-ring support plate through the inward toward the cutout.
cutout hole and position it centered in the hole
and aligned so its attachment clips are closest
to the tile bridges you just placed. Slide these
bridges as necessary so the C-ring clips can be
pressed onto the raised rail ribs, and now snap
the C-ring clips onto the rails. See Figure 25.
Attachment
Clips
Figure 25 Installing a C-Ring Support
Plate onto Tile Bridge Support Rails
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Stabilizing
flanges
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