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RE: [wiardgroup] Rohs

2006-05-18 by Ingo Zobel

hello grant,

so you stopp selling things to your european customers?
i don't hope so, because i love your work and i really want
to add more of your stuff to my system everytime when you
come up with something new. i there a workaround for
europeans like me?

best wishes

ingo




--- Grant Richter <grichter@asapnet.net> schrieb:

> There are no plans to remove the lead content from any Wiard
> electronics.
> 
> Wiard modules are museum pieces and are designed using "archival"
> techniques with the goal 
> of having a useful life of 100 years. The use of lead solder is
> intrinsic to this process, since 
> the life span of lead solder connections is know from experience to
> last this period of time.
> 
> The life span of lead-free solder joints in not know at this time.
> There is a known failure 
> mode in lead-free solder which prevent it's use in military and high
> reliability electronics (tin 
> whisker growth).
> 
> I can assure you the lifetime ground water lead pollution of all
> Wiard modules ever built does 
> not approach 1/1,000,000 the number of lead molecules leached by acid
> rain from all the 
> leaded glass windows in churches during a single rain storm.
> 
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