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<blockquote data-quote="John Roberts" data-source="post: 76800" data-attributes="member: 126">Re: Behringer X32 - things to check when you get itWhile this is taken for granted by customers, it becomes painfully apparent to manufacturers when they ship product around the world. I won&#039;t feed this veer with more about the science.I am not convinced hand soldering is very practical for low defect manufacturing. Modern evolution to smaller SMD devices not only reduce cost because they use less raw material, but the lower mass relative to solder pad area makes for stronger mechanical attachment performance.Locking connectors have been available for a long time. The physics is about applying deceleration slow enough that it doesn&#039;t stress the product to failure, but fast enough to accomplish the task in a reasonable package volume. Container shipping is pretty much priced by package volume, not weight (for electronic SKUs), so an oversized shipping pack cost money, more ways than one.&nbsp; This has been long inspected by folks with very sharp pencils. A common new company mistake is to under-pack products.&nbsp; Shippers don&#039;t go out of their way to beat up packages, but their motivation is to move them with the lowest human effort. This often involves throwing lighter smaller packages, and heavy packages get dropped, not gently placed on the ground. Repeated small bumps and shaking, in my experience is less problematic than occasional hard drops. At my old day job we had a shaker table, and the main victims of the 24 hr shake was relatively massive circuit board components (like the higher quality caps I liked). Of course there are solutions for any problem you can identify and anticipate. JR</blockquote>

[QUOTE="John Roberts, post: 76800, member: 126"] Re: Behringer X32 - things to check when you get it While this is taken for granted by customers, it becomes painfully apparent to manufacturers when they ship product around the world. I won't feed this veer with more about the science. I am not convinced hand soldering is very practical for low defect manufacturing. Modern evolution to smaller SMD devices not only reduce cost because they use less raw material, but the lower mass relative to solder pad area makes for stronger mechanical attachment performance. Locking connectors have been available for a long time. The physics is about applying deceleration slow enough that it doesn't stress the product to failure, but fast enough to accomplish the task in a reasonable package volume. Container shipping is pretty much priced by package volume, not weight (for electronic SKUs), so an oversized shipping pack cost money, more ways than one. This has been long inspected by folks with very sharp pencils. A common new company mistake is to under-pack products. Shippers don't go out of their way to beat up packages, but their motivation is to move them with the lowest human effort. This often involves throwing lighter smaller packages, and heavy packages get dropped, not gently placed on the ground. Repeated small bumps and shaking, in my experience is less problematic than occasional hard drops. At my old day job we had a shaker table, and the main victims of the 24 hr shake was relatively massive circuit board components (like the higher quality caps I liked). Of course there are solutions for any problem you can identify and anticipate. JR [/QUOTE]

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