Interesting. I believe the move may be driven more by the soldering support
industry, materials, equipment etc than the OEM.
My reasoning is that anyone that deals with OEM's and contract manufacture
will know about how tenacious they are chasing after the last 0.0001 dollar
price reduction on a component.
How will those same people feel faced with a large increase in returns? Pass
it on to the consumer? I guess - lets see what the outcome is.
One thing is for sure, it is not doing the environment any good and there is
ample scientific evidence to that effect.
I believe that what we have here in the lead in solders legislation is
something that has been an engineering "no brainer" saying for years "if it
isn't broke - don't fix it"
It wasn't - they did - here we are.
Let's see what happens.
John
-----Original Message-----
From: Leadfree [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Wrobel, Clayton
Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2006 6:34 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [LF] Back to square one
You know, this points out one of the reasons the consumer-market OEM's
have not pushed back on ROHS --- If people accept reduced reliability
due to LF solders (whether it is the true failure or not) that means the
OEM's get to sell more product. I've met too many people that worship
the almighty dollar (Euro, Yuan, etc) and I wonder if this isn't one
reason.
The almost universal belief of the Hi-Rel community is this is a very
bad decision. This is also held, I believe, bat the vast majority of us
in the trenches trying to build a quality product for our customers.
-----Original Message-----
From: Pete Houwen [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Monday, May 22, 2006 9:35 AM
Subject: Re: Back to square one
Before we get too far down an alternate path, I think the major concern
isn't the solder joint failing, it is the growth of whiskers causing
short circuits. A decent manufacturer will create lead free solder
joints that are at least as robust as leaded joints. In some cases, the
change to lead free is causing manufacturers to learn more about their
processes, probably leading to better quality. The whisker problem is
well documented. It's effect is not, and may never be, but is often
overblown. most whiskers will not grow long enought to cause a problem,
will not fall off into another circuit, or will fuse themselves. And
when they do cause a problem, the consumer will just accept that their
iPod no longer functions, and throw it in the landfill and buy another.
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