KPH-525 OWNER’S MANUAL
KPH-525 The Klipsch KPH-525 Pendant Housing is designed specifically to hold the Klipsch IC-400-T or Klipsch IC-525-T 70/100 Volt in-ceiling commercial loudspeaker. A pendant style speaker can be a perfect distributed sound solution for a hospitality or retail environment in areas where high ceilings or a lack of suspended ceilings make in-ceiling speakers a challenge for direct, overhead sound coverage.
INSTALLATION 1. Run speaker wire through housing top and out bottom and attach to Klipsch IC speaker. See IC owner’s manual for 70 volt or 8 ohm wiring directions. 2. Insert the Klipsch IC speaker assembly with attached wiring into the pendant housing bottom opening. 3. Fasten by tightening the four Phillips screws indicated The speaker frame’s “dog” legs will swivel out and secure the housing and speaker together. 4.
INSTALLATION 5. Thread bare end of the 9.5 foot drop cable through one channel of the fastlink wire joiner, through or around the ceiling anchor point, then back through the opposite channel of the wire joiner to connect the cable and lock it into the joiner 6. Thread the bare end of a safety cable (not included) through one channel of a second wire joiner (not included), through or around a different ceiling anchor point then through the opposite channel of the wire joiner used.
INSTALLATION 7. Wrap speaker wire up around the drop cable and connect to source. Connect safety cable to nearest suspension wire and drop cable using twist or zip ties for aesthetic appeal. If desired, encase drop cable wrapped with speaker wire and attached safety cable in a plastic conduit.
SPEAKER HEIGHT / SPACING A speaker’s sensitivity specification gives you its Sound Pressure Level (SPL) output at one meter with one watt input. The accompanying illustration shows how you can determine SPL output at a given distance based on the followingconstants that apply to sound: Speaker Sensitivity: 89 dB If speaker wattage tap is 3.8 watts 1. Every time you DOUBLE THE POWER input to a speaker you increase its SPL by 3dB. 2. Every time you DOUBLE THE DISTANCE from a speaker you lose 6dB of SPL.
SPEAKER HEIGHT / SPACING Space speakers according to their coverage patterns and NOT their polar patterns. Speaker coverage patterns grow wider as their distances increase. Overlap Spacing Ideal, but higher cost Although overlapping speaker coverage patterns provide very consistent SPL’s over the entire area, they involve using more speakers for a higher system cost. An “Edge-To-Edge” pattern is more common using less speakers, especially with Background Music Systems.
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