B-I-C America FH8-W Installation And Owner's Manual

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  • Page 1 Company Model FH8-W In-Wall Speakers Installation and Owner’s Manual...
  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    If you find anything wrong, contact your dealer Outside help ....................12 or the shipper who delivered the speaker. Limited Warranty ..................12 B . I . C FH8-W description and specifications ..........12 TOOLS FOR INSTALLATION IN EXISTING WALLS CONGRATULATIONS It doesn’t take a whole workshop to install –...
  • Page 3: Speaker Wire

    TIMES FIVE. That allows enough for both Treble frequencies are quite directional. While the horn tweeters in B . I . C FH8-W speakers are a living room that flows into a formal dining speaker paths plus a very healthy margin for room, or in a kitchen and breakfast nook.
  • Page 4: Wall & Ceiling Surfaces

    Too close together speakers, let’s consider where you CAN put them. EXCELLENT for stereo imaging The FH8-W requires 4˝ of wall depth (measured from the outside surface of the wall). DRAWING 3 SPEAKER WIRE PATHS This means that they can be installed in any wallboard-and-2x4 stud wall.
  • Page 5: Speaker Wire Paths

    Actually, the hole doesn’t even totally un-bent coat hanger. Bend it so that the accessory grilles included with your new FH8-W have to be that neat, since the speaker’s outer last 12 inches is at a right angle to the rest.
  • Page 6: Running Connecting Wires

    DOWN, ACROSS AND 4A.If you haven’t encountered in-wall insulation (sometimes present on BACK UP (BASEMENT OR outside walls), have your assistant drop LOWER CRAWL SPACE) a plumb bob or weight string down until you can reach it. Tape the cable to it and If you have an unfinished basement or let them pull it up.
  • Page 7 UP AND OVER 8. Making sure the end doesn’t get pulled 5. Making sure the end doesn’t get pulled back down through the hole, reel out back up through the hole, reel out (ATTIC CRAWL SPACE) cable until you reach the space under cable while moving across the attic/crawl the amplifier.
  • Page 8 OVERLAND 12. Continue “paying out” both cables 5. To secure the cable so that it doesn’t until they and the weight hit bottom. get pulled out during vacuuming, add If, for a variety of reasons, it’s impossible to Tie the free end of the plumb bob insulated staples at the points where route cables above or below, you can still string to something so that it doesn’t...
  • Page 9: Hooking Up Your Speakers

    AT THE AMPLIFIER END AT THE SPEAKER END 1. Cut off excess wire, leaving about two 1. Cut off excess wire, leaving enough feet extending through the speaker to comfortably reach from the hole cut-out hole. in the wall to your stereo system. HOOKING UP If there’s a possibility that you’re 2.
  • Page 10: Final Assembly

    FINAL ASSEMBLY A SHORT TEST DRIVE 1. If you haven’t done so already during It’s a good idea to test everything out at this the back of the wall and clamp the speaker painting, remove the perforated grilles from point. Also, although we’ve paid close attention to into place.
  • Page 11: A Quick Troubleshooting Guide

    Cleaning as to wire gauge versus overall distance. time (or three sets and one pair of main listen- B . I . C FH8-W Speakers are covered with a ing room speakers). When volume is turned up to a high...
  • Page 12: Installing B . I . C Speakers During New Construction

    Needless to say, installing speakers when a If the B . I . C speaker system proves to be house is being built is far easier than doing The B . I . C FH8-W in-wall speaker system defective in materials or workmanship within it later.

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