L-Acoustics X8 Rigging Manual - page 3
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Contents
Safety................................................................................................................................................................ 5
Instructions................................................................................................................................................5
Symbols................................................................................................................................................... 5
Welcome........................................................................................................................................................... 6
System components.............................................................................................................................................7
Mechanical safety...............................................................................................................................................8
Rigging system description.................................................................................................................................10
X8......................................................................................................................................................... 10
Elements for flying and wall-mounting....................................................................................................... 11
X-US8 and X-UL8.......................................................................................................................... 11
X-UTILT......................................................................................................................................... 14
X-BAR...........................................................................................................................................14
Elements for pole-mounting.......................................................................................................................16
Pole socket................................................................................................................................... 16
EMBi............................................................................................................................................17
Subwoofer.................................................................................................................................... 17
Rigging procedures...........................................................................................................................................18
Mounting on a U-bracket.........................................................................................................................18
Using a U-bracket with X-UTILT.................................................................................................................23
Flying with a U-bracket........................................................................................................................... 29
Flying with X-BAR....................................................................................................................................36
Pole-mounting with a U-bracket................................................................................................................ 42
Forbidden configurations................................................................................................................................... 47
Illustrations....................................................................................................................................................... 48
Loudspeaker enclosures........................................................................................................................... 48
Rigging elements.....................................................................................................................................48
Software applications.............................................................................................................................. 49
Specifications................................................................................................................................................... 50
X8 specifications.....................................................................................................................................50
X-UL8 specifications.................................................................................................................................52
X-US8 specifications................................................................................................................................ 53
X-BAR specifications................................................................................................................................ 54
X-UTILT specifications...............................................................................................................................55