Specifications

Community Distributed Design Series Installation and Operation Manual Page 23
3. Guide the C-ring support plate through the
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.
Installing the Back Can in the Ceiling
General
Lay out the loudspeaker locations according to
the requirements of the specic installation and
in compliance with applicable safety and building
codes. It is beyond the scope of this manual to
provide guidance in this area. Community does,
however, offer our Forecaster ceiling system
software to assist you in distributed loudspeaker
system design. Please visit the Product 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 installation 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 alternative 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, approximately as far
apart as the clips on the C-ring support plate. See
Figure 25.
Note: The bridge support rails each have a raised rib
with a at stabilizing ange 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 anges are facing inward toward the cutout.
Figure 25. Installing a C-Ring support plate
onto tile bridge support rails
Stabilizing
anges
Attachment Clips
Figure 24. Cutout template dimensions