Further details
Maintenance and cleaning
Once your AIWX speaker is plastered into your wall or ceiling, it requires no physical
maintenance. Your wall or ceiling can be cleaned with products appropriate to the finish finally
applied to the plaster surface.
The wall or ceiling can be painted or redecorated any number of times (see proviso, page 24,
step 5). Extreme care should be taken when removing wallpaper type coverings to ensure the
plaster surface is not damaged. If damage to the plaster work occurs, use repair plaster to
restore the plaster surface prior to re-decorating. Amina Technologies Ltd recommends British
Gypsum Easi-fill® repair plaster. Avoid pushing the wall or ceiling surface immediately in front of
the speaker. Excessive excursion, whilst unlikely to damage the speaker, will undoubtedly cause
the plaster to crack around its perimeter.
Reliability
Correctly installed and used within its specification, the Amina AIWX series speaker is designed
to give many years of trouble-free service. The vibrational soundboard technique used by
the AIWX has very few moving parts. Compared to a conventional moving coil speaker these
movements are insignificant. Whilst the human touch can feel the tiny movements, they cannot
be seen by the naked eye. Such small movement of this electromechanical structure means
the long term reliability is enhanced compared to much larger movements of conventional
loudspeakers.
Removal
In the unlikely event of a problem developing with the product, or you simply wish to remove
the item to change its location, please refer to the following guidelines:
Locate the speaker by tapping the wall or ceiling listening for a hollow sound compared to the
rest of the wall/ceiling. Then, with a sharp chisel or decorator’s scraper, carefully chip into the
plaster to expose a small area of the panel surface. To ensure you do not damage the panel,
hold the tool at an acute angle to the wall or ceiling. Now, holding the scraper almost parallel
to the panel surface, work outwards towards the product’s edge easing the plaster away from
the panel. Do not worry if the panel surface receives marks or indented scratches during this
process (it should not, however, have holes entering through to the unique honeycomb panel).
Once the product is plastered back into its original or new location, the new skim of plaster will
cover all these imperfections and the speakers performance will not be unduly affected.
Clear the surface plaster material from the surrounding plasterboard to expose all the joint
tape and subsequently remove it. Use a narrow chisel or flat blade screwdriver to remove the
plaster and expose the screws at each corner of the product. Using a suitable screwdriver,
remove the four screws and then ease the product from the wall or ceiling and disconnect the
speaker cable. Leave all four fixing blocks in place as these can be used to support a small
section of plasterboard when making good the wall/ceiling.
If the product needs repairing, please return it to your supplier or Amina Technologies Ltd.
Once repaired, the product can be refixed into position following appropriate installation steps
detailed earlier within the manual.
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