- 1). Hire a licensed electrician to prewire any AC outlet and lighting locations required.
- 2). Find the primary racking location. This spot will be where the main trunk line of speaker, signal and communications lines is dropped.
- 3). Drill a 1/8-inch hole every 12 inches up the stud the trunk lines will ascend and the rafter the video cable(s) will traverse. Screw a drive ring into these holes by hand.
- 4). Drill a 1-inch hole in the studs leading to where you plan to locate any on- or in-wall speakers in the system. Maintain at least an 18-inch separation between these holes and the nearest AC wires.
- 5). Run the video cables (HDMI) to the location where the home theater projector will be located. Route these cables from the main racking location up and through the installed drive rings to the projector's designated mounting location.
- 6). Route the speaker wires from the main racking location through the 1-inch holes bored into the studs. Run the RG-6 coaxial cable for the subwoofer(s) with the speaker wires leading to the intended installation location.
- 7). Bundle the ends of the wires in the main trunk line with masking tape. Label the individual wires with a fine-tip marker, indicating function and routing location.
- 8). Knock the back out of each low-voltage junction box with a hammer. Screw these to the stud that is the closest termination point to each wire run. For example, each speaker will have a box, as will the HDMI and subwoofer cables, etc. Carefully coil and stuff these cables into the boxes.
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