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Originally Posted by julianh72
When you do the stability calculations (I'm a structural engineer, so it's part of my "bread and butter"!)
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I'm an electrical engineer but did enough mechanical engineering at uni (about 30 years ago) to realise that this calculation was beyond by abilities
I know that the absolute weight, the centre of gravity, even the grip of the tripod feet on the ground need to be taken into consideration. So chose 30° because it looks and feels nicer and more stable to me
I've been using a surveyor's tripod a few times as a make-shift, it only has just over 20° spread and doesn't look at all reassuring with the HEQ5Pro, 6" Mak and 10kg of counterweights on top
Cheers
Steffen.