Hi Dan, Sherif is talking about the power consumption required to assemble a board using lead-free. However, I don't think a 11.5% increase by electronic manufactures would be a noticeable blip to the power company's meter. And I don't think it would even be a noticeable blip to the manufactures cost of manufacturing either. (Although the environmental "benefit" of lead-free is even less of a blip on any radar). Ryan Grant -----Original Message----- From: Dan R. Johnson [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 9:19 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [TN] On lead and stuff Sherif, I can't say that has been noticeable but we are building a relatively low power consumption product any way. 11% would relate to 1 or 2 milliamps in our typical product, not a major concern to us or our customers. Dan --------------------------------------------------- Technet Mail List provided as a free service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8e To unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the BODY (NOT the subject field): SIGNOFF Technet To temporarily halt or (re-start) delivery of Technet send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet NOMAIL or (MAIL) To receive ONE mailing per day of all the posts: send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet Digest Search the archives of previous posts at: http://listserv.ipc.org/archives Please visit IPC web site http://www.ipc.org/html/forum.htm for additional information, or contact Keach Sasamori at [log in to unmask] or 847-509-9700 ext.5315 ----------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------- Technet Mail List provided as a free service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8e To unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the BODY (NOT the subject field): SIGNOFF Technet To temporarily halt or (re-start) delivery of Technet send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet NOMAIL or (MAIL) To receive ONE mailing per day of all the posts: send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet Digest Search the archives of previous posts at: http://listserv.ipc.org/archives Please visit IPC web site http://www.ipc.org/html/forum.htm for additional information, or contact Keach Sasamori at [log in to unmask] or 847-509-9700 ext.5315 -----------------------------------------------------