RL-1, RSL-4, RSL-6 Installation Guide V1.0
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Single and multi-channel operation
RL and RSL remote plates are primarily designed to provide remote control
of a single audio channel.A single channel will often correspond to a single
zone or area of a building, and the remote plate will therefore control the
audio in that zone, but see NOTE below. Many of the products listed above
have two or more audio channels; on all such Cloud devices, provision is
made for connecting separate remote control plates to as many channels as
required. (The CX163 stereo zone mixer has a slightly different arrangement;
see Wiring details on page 11 and Wiring diagrams on page 14 for further
information).
NOTE: It is possible to control two or more channels of a Cloud multi-
channel device “in parallel” from a single remote plate; this might be desirable
where, e.g., more than one channel of a mixer-amplier is powering speakers
in the same zone, due to room size.
An RL-1/1A may be wired in parallel to more than one channel of an
amplier or zoner, but note that the “law” of the control will differ from that
obeyed when it is used with a single channel.When wired to several channels
in parallel, this may produce an inconvenient “cramping” of the control’s
operation at one end of the range.
