LEAD, Lead, Lead down the garden path??

[WBear2GCR]

Well, get a load of this!

http://elecdesign.com/Articles/index.cfm?ArticleID=16315&bypass=1

No s**t Sherlock!
It's not like no one was telling them this almost a decade back!
Dopey Euro flakes just gotta do stuff like this...

"...Well, Stanley, that's another fine mess you've gotten us into"... Ollie

               _-_-WBear2GCR

[AF9J]

Yuppers,  the company I work for has some divisions that use RoHS circuit boards for their flow meters.  They are exempt from the lead free stipulation, due to the reliability in a hostile environment clause.  But, we're still going ahead with making it all RoHS, due to the fact that in 2008, the EU is going to "reevaluate" data to see if making even circuitry for items like ours RoHs, will prove not to be detrimental to its reliability.  I hate that bismuth solder that's used (I do some QA testing of circuit boards for my job in QA).  Even good joints look like cold joints.  In one case,a tiny dual OR Gate on one of our boards actually gets scorched from trying to use enough heat to get decent solder joints on its leads, and the chip's ground plane.

73,
Ellen - AF9J