Re: Lead free solder and q.c.
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When RoHS first hit the ground, there was an ample number of exemptions for industrial equipment of a certain size, or larger. ?
I haven't had to prep for RoHS since 2005, so I can't speak to the issue now.? But I'd take advantage of any available exemptions because RoHS is a foolish idea.? Where I worked, we filed RoHS under "stupid ideas to ensure full employment for European Union citizens."
We were trying to use the "industrial equipment" exemption because our computer systems were designed specifically to fill up a room, and not be usable except as a system. ? I pushed for that concept, but as a lowly technical writer -- what did I know?
That was the same place where they locked me out of the code base because I provided a rock-solid fix for a customer-visible bug that never should have made its way into the golden build. ?
It was such an embarrassing bug that I think my NDA may still be in effect for it.
73 Jim N6OTQ
On Sat, Feb 10, 2024 at 5:43?PM Jim Shorney < jimNU0C@...> wrote:
I had it forced on me at my day job. Partly due to the fact that we sold a lot of product to EU and other offshore customers. We retained some of our beloved 63/37 on the (valid) excuse that we serviced a 20 year old product line that was still in production and we needed both kinds of solder.
NASA has a web page devoted to this stuff which, among other things, hosts a paper that is a good send-up of the lead-free fiasco.
73
-Jim
NU0C
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