[sdiy] RoHS

[John Blacet]

There is also some ambiguous verbiage about "being placed on the market" 
which leads me to believe that products placed on the market before July 
1st are also exempt. Since the modular industry does not built a new VCO 
every year, this might be good.



Johannes Öberg wrote:

> Or consumers are simply considered the weakest part with the least 
> protesting capability, and not interessting enough in the bribes 
> department...
>
> Anyway the text talks about spare parts for stuff made before 1 july 
> 2006. I would certainly consider synthesizer modules to be spare 
> parts! :-) I'm no lawyer for sure, but say you are replacing your 
> failing VCO module with a new one. Spare part, I would say. Must the 
> spare also be made before 1 july?
>
> /J
>
> >http://www.pb-free.info/rohsexemptions.htm 
> <http://www.pb-free.info/rohsexemptions.htm>
> >
> >It looks like consumer equiment is the only thing really targeted, with
> >the assumption that we don't need reliability anyway! 


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Regards,
John Blacet

Blacet Research
http://www.blacet.com

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