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[snip]
> So, Sam
>allowed me to trade my NexStar 11 GPS up to a Meade LX200 GPS 12"
>w/ UHTC.
[snip]
>>Sam put me in touch with someone high up in the Meade hierarchy.
> I spoke
>with him and he assured me that they do have a way of testing these
>units
>and that he can vouch for the fact that their "process" does work.
> He said
>they have an artificial sky and that each scope is tested with it.
> (I still
>have a hard time believing this. Does anyone know the facts surrounding
>this?)
[snip]
On the LX200GPS news group on Yahoo groups, someone there mentioned that
Meade does do not any vibration testing to see if the telescopes would
survive shipping. According to a running poll on that news group about
10% of LX200 GPS telescopes show up with some kind of severe defect.
- -Sean
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