User manual NILES CM5MP

[. . . ] INSTALLATION & OPERATION GUIDE MODELS CM5MP CM6MP MULTIPURPOSE MULTIPURPOSE CM8MP MULTIPURPOSE www. nilesaudio. com Niles Audio Corporation 12331 S. W. 130 Street Miami, Florida 33186 Tel: (305) 238-4373 Fax: (305) 238-0185 Printed in Taiwan © 2003 Niles Audio Corporation. Niles, the Niles logo, and Blending High Fidelity and Architecture are registered trademarks of Niles Audio Corporation. MicroPerf is a trademark of Niles Audio Corporation. [. . . ] Start with the longest sections and use left over wire to complete the short sections. If you plan to pull many rooms at the same time through a central route, walk off the distance to each destination, add a generous fudge factor for turns and other obstacles, then cut off each section so that you have a bundle of wires you can pull at once. Whenever you run the wire further than four and one half feet from a hole in a stud or joist (open attic space, going up walls, etc. ), fasten the wire to the joists or studs using cable clamps or appropriately sized wire staples. The wire should not have large sags in it, nor should it be too tight. Try to protect the wire from being stepped on in attics or other unfinished crawl spaces. There are guard strips, raceways and conduits which can be used to protect the cable. Consult the local building code for special requirements in your area. Concealing Speaker Wire in Existing Walls This is actually a fairly simple task if you restrict your choice of speaker locations and wire routes to the interior walls or ceilings of your home. Interior walls in almost all North American residences are hollow, so that it is easy to flush mount speakers into them and route new speaker cable around the house. What you see when you look at the painted wall board, plaster, or paneling is only the skin of the wall. Behind the skin is the skeleton; twoby-four wood or metal "studs" running vertically from the floor to the ceiling in walls and two-by-six or larger "joists" running horizontally in the ceilings and floors. In between the studs and the joists is the space for the wiring and plumbing of your home. They must insulate the house from the heat and cold outside, so they are stuffed with insulation. The national building code requires that the hollow wall space in exterior walls be broken by a horizontal stud placed between the vertical studs. This "fire blocking" makes it very difficult to retrofit long lengths of wire. In some areas of the country the exterior walls are constructed of solid masonry, and have no hollow space for speakers or wires. Start by examining all the possible routes you might take to run the speaker wire from the speaker to the volume control and back to the stereo. Use a stud sensor or other device to locate the internal structure of the wall. A typical route would be: from the speaker location in the ceiling, across the attic, then down through a top plate (the horizontal 2x4 or 2x6 laid across the vertical studs) to the volume control location, back up to the attic, across the attic, and finally down another wall plate to a J-Box in the wall behind the stereo system itself (See Figure 6). Identify where all of your electrical, phone, and TV wiring is likely to be and plan to route around it all. You can accidentally induce 60Hz hum on your speakers if you run your speaker wire right beside electrical wire for more than a few feet. Try to keep speaker wire running par- Installation Fundamentals 9 Installation Fundamentals Figure 5 10 Speaker Location Volume Control Location Stereo Location When you don't have access above or below the wall, try to estimate the existing wire and pipe locations from the positions of electrical outlets and plumbed fixtures on both sides of the wall. [. . . ] This Warranty is subject to the following additional conditions and limitations. The Warranty is void and inapplicable if NILES deems that the product has been used or handled other than in accordance with the instructions provided by the manufacturer, including but not limited to damage caused by accident, mishandling, improper installation, abuse, negligence, or normal wear and tear, or any defect caused by repair to the product by anyone other than NILES or an authorized NILES dealer. To obtain warranty service, take the unit to the nearest authorized NILES dealer, who will test the product and if necessary, forward it to NILES for service. If there are no authorized NILES dealers in your area, you must write to NILES and include your name, address, model and serial number of your unit, along with a brief description of the problem. [. . . ]