User Guide
Table Of Contents
- Cover page
- Important information for your interactive flat panel
- Chapter 1: About your interactive flat panel
- Chapter 2: Installing your interactive flat panel
- Chapter 3: Connecting computers and peripheral devices
- Chapter 4: Installing SMART software
- Chapter 5: Using your interactive flat panel
- Turning on and turning off your interactive flat panel
- Understanding presence detection
- Using the infrared remote control
- Getting started with your SMART Board interactive flat panel
- Playing audio files on your interactive flat panel
- Using the USB receptacle
- Chapter 6: Using guest laptops with your interactive flat panel
- Chapter 7: Maintaining your interactive flat panel
- Updating your SMART software and firmware
- Calibrating your interactive flat panel
- Orienting your interactive flat panel
- Replacing a pen nib
- Cleaning the screen
- Cleaning the presence detection sensors
- Cleaning the camera windows and reflective tape
- Maintaining ventilation
- Preventing condensation
- Checking the interactive flat panel installation
- Removing your interactive flat panel
- Transporting your interactive flat panel
- Chapter 8: Troubleshooting for your interactive flat panel
- Appendix A: Adjusting video settings with the on-screen display menu
- Appendix B: Hardware environmental compliance
- Index

Chapter 2: Installing your interactive flat
panel
Environmental requirements 9
Wall-mounting your interactive flat panel 10
Important mounting considerations for trained installers 11
Choosing a mounting location 11
Choosing a mounting height 12
You need a team of professional installers to install your SMARTBoard 8055i interactive flat panel.
This chapter provides additional considerations and details for installing your interactive flat panel.
I M P O R T A N T
Because the receptacles might not be accessible after wall-installation, consider connecting cables
for speakers, computers and peripheral devices while the interactive flat panel is still in its
packaging or is suspended from a lifting device. For more information, see Connecting computers
and peripheral devices on page 13.
Environmental requirements
Before installing your interactive flat panel, review the following environmental requirements. For
more detailed information, see SMART Board 8055i and 8055i-SMPinteractive flat panel
specifications (smarttech.com/kb/170179) or SMART Board 8055ie-SMPinteractive flat panel with
appliance specifications (smarttech.com/kb/170178).
Environmental requirement Parameter
Power requirements 0.8A to 1.8A at 100V to 240V AC, 50 Hz to 60 Hz
Power consumption at 77ºF
(25ºC)
Typically up to 148 W (brightness at 80% and volume at 50),
maximum 178 W (brightness and volume at maximum)
Operating temperature 41°F to 95°F (5°C to 35°C)
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