The tin-whiskers problem is not new and solutions are available. The doom and gloom of problems has been forecast for years, but as I mentioned in an earlier post, millions of products have been on the market for years without problems. Check out the benefits and multiple references:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ROHS
Do you have any references to the FCC problems with RoHS? I've never heard of this. Millions of products are now compliant, so I'm curious where you get your information on a difficult transition. Manufacturers like Motorola are now reporting that with the new solder formulations, they've gone to higher densities allowing smaller wireless phones, for example, with *increased* reliability - see the Wikipedia article.
As for heavy metals, I'll take the most popular formulations -- tin, silver, bismuth over lead in our landfills any day.:)
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The tin-whiskers problem is not new and solutions are available. The doom and gloom of problems has been forecast for years, but as I mentioned in an earlier post, millions of products have been on the market for years without problems. Check out the benefits and multiple references: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ROHS
Do you have any references to the FCC problems with RoHS? I've never heard of this. Millions of products are now compliant, so I'm curious where you get your information on a difficult transition. Manufacturers like Motorola are now reporting that with the new solder formulations, they've gone to higher densities allowing smaller wireless phones, for example, with *increased* reliability - see the Wikipedia article. As for heavy metals, I'll take the most popular formulations -- tin, silver, bismuth over lead in our landfills any day. :)