This is an old story, decades older than RoHS, some "consultant"
probably just warmed it up to make a quick buck.
The industry is well beyond this problem by using alloys instead of pure tin.
The problems we have in modern equipment are due to bad design (over
stressing of cheap components), and increasingly bad software (when
have you last bought something software driven that doesn't have
bugs?). Everyone who does repairs knows this.
It's easy to blame the government because they are idiots, but it's
just not the truth. The problem is us buying cheap, cheap stuff from
china, and shipping it right back as junk, to be "recycled" by
children who should be in school rather than in front of a pot of
molten solder. Sure, RoHS doesn't really solve the problem, but
neither does it cause it.
ST
On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 10:30 AM, tda7000 <Tda7000@...> wrote:
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> The way I see it, lead-free = higher failure rate (and maybe not just from whiskers but probably also from higher soldering temperatures damaging components more) = more stuff thrown away = more in landfills and more pollution = pretty much the opposite of what RoHS is supposed to achieve!
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> --- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, Russell Shaw <rjshaw@...> wrote:
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>> The stupidy of European government knows no bounds.
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>> Understanding and mitigating tin whiskers
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>> <http://www.eetimes.com/design/military-aerospace-design/4230652/Understanding-and-mitigating-tin-whiskers?pageNumber=0&Ecosystem=communications-design>
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