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Old 19-07-2011, 03:52 PM
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Originally Posted by frolinmod View Post
They're certainly not flimsy. Not at all. My ME is normally on an 10-inch diameter Astro-Physics portable pier in my back yard. I put it on a TRI36H whenever I take it up to the local mountains. Definitely two thumbs up for the Rob Miller tripods.
My Tri36M is very sturdy also. They are light weight, but all the bits lock together and the tripod is very rigid.

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Originally Posted by gregbradley View Post
What does burning in a board mean? Soldering them in or running them for a while to make sure they work?
The latter... it means running them for a time period under test to make sure that any boards likely to fail early don't fail in the field.
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