RoHS did make some repairs easier. Pull off the RF shield, blow/brush out all the whiskers, solder on a new shield, and hope it doesn't come back until after the warranty runs out.
73
-Jim
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On Sat, 10 Feb 2024 21:52:35 -0600
"Jim Strohm" <jim.strohm@...> wrote:
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
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-Jim
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Jim Shorney