[sdiy] The Dreaded ROHS

[George Hearn]

I guess there is often little thought given to compliance in sdiy projects,
even commercial ones.  In my opinion ROHS isn't really something anyone
needs to worry about.  In the UK every electronics sub-contract manufacturer
will do ROHS compliant PC boards and if they do assembly this too will be
ROHS compliant.  All but a few components are ROHS compliant so really there
is little to worry about with this one.  There are many other much more
tricky standards to comply with, anything involving mains electrical, radio
frequency stuff, EMC etc.  These are really worth some discussion on this
list I think, but ROHS, we might have to change our solder if we want to
sell in Europe/China but it's really not too much trouble is it?  George

-----Original Message-----
From: synth-diy-bounces at dropmix.xs4all.nl
[mailto:synth-diy-bounces at dropmix.xs4all.nl] On Behalf Of Graham Atkins
Sent: 15 February 2009 00:13
To: elektrodwarf at yahoo.se
Cc: synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
Subject: Re: [sdiy] The Dreaded ROHS


On 14 Feb 2009, at 23:52, Karl Ekdahl wrote:

> Please, just stop it. More facts less whining.
>
> For me it seems like the little RHoS stuff i've come across fixing  
> gear is not that different, just get different solder, my weller  
> iron works fine with it.

OK....Here are some facts :-

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/apr/03/research.engineering

Graham

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