Shipping heavy equipment

[Zane H. Healy]

>  110 pounds - it's not *that* big. It can go FedEx (149 pound limit 
>for regular FedEx)  as well as UPS - but that would be "pricey".

Actually if you pull the power supplies, and all the boards, then 
ship the boards in one carefully packed box, and the power supplies 
in another, you might be able to get the weight of the BA213 down to 
the point where shipping it wouldn't be to expensive.  I think the 
magical weight point for UPS is 70 or 80 pounds, not sure what the 
size (dimensions) limit is.  Once you hit that magical limit, it gets 
very spendy to ship using them.  Breaking the package up can be a big 
help.

OTOH, there is definitely something to be said for properly crating 
the system shipping it by someone that specializes in transporting 
large heavy objects.  The downside is that the shipping is likely to 
cost more than the unit is worth.

			Zane


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