Electronics Forum | Wed Aug 10 12:05:11 EDT 2005 | Rob
Hi Pr, No idea what the material is - we haven't usd it for a while now, but it was flush & didn't cause any printing problems on double sided reflow. Your board house should know all about it - I would suggest some but ours are all UK or China/Tai
Electronics Forum | Fri Mar 24 09:33:26 EST 2006 | Rob
Hi Samir, That's cos it's already an offence to sell such an item in the EU. If you even paint a childs toy with a coating of more than 0.2% lead you can face 2 years in prison (admittedly with 3 nice meals a day, internet access, gym etc - I think
Electronics Forum | Fri Mar 24 11:45:47 EST 2006 | russ
thanks Rob, that really explained a lot to me. I definitely understand why it is important for the european countries. I never really thought the directive was bad in it's intentions. But you are right it is the implementation of this that is a f
Electronics Forum | Fri Mar 24 12:16:37 EST 2006 | patrickbruneel
Darn Rob you're brilliant You just solved the dilemma of micro cracks and hot tear in lead free, just add a softer metal like.....and the joints won't crack. You wrote "BTW: Lead is far softer & dissolves far more easily than copper or tin, hence wh
Electronics Forum | Sat Mar 25 07:23:05 EST 2006 | davef
Rob It's documented that lead doesn't leach out of landfills. So, how does Eurolanders health become affected by lead in landfilled electronic products? Isn't the potential for lead poisioning from using leaded glass greater a danger? Given that
Electronics Forum | Fri Apr 01 14:51:23 EDT 2011 | jaimebc
We are currently experiencing a high rate of false calls on our 0402 chips. Resistors for the most part. Has anybody out there found a setting where this false calls are minimized? We are using top red light, pattern inspection,color inspection ( wh
Electronics Forum | Tue Jul 19 04:10:21 EDT 2005 | Rob
Hi, On a semi related front, part of our company is a distributor (I'm not going to say who, coz that would be sneaky advertising), and on all components shipped we've added the follwing to the label: ROHS Compliancy Status(Lead free & plastics etc
Electronics Forum | Tue Jul 19 06:33:56 EDT 2005 | Rob
Hi GS, Thanks for responding - looks like we already put end termination coating on the label - we just call it "second level interconnect" There is a specimen label at: http://www.anglia.com/quality/labels.pdf Regarding standardising labels accr
Electronics Forum | Fri Mar 24 11:54:18 EST 2006 | Rob.
Hi Patrick, I'm patriotic to a point & that doesn't include supporting crap decisions, & those that have handled the ROHS & WEEE implementation have been beyond useless & should be locked in a lead lined room with Roman plumbing. Yes we need to r
Electronics Forum | Thu Jul 03 08:53:27 EDT 2008 | rgduval
I would...and then use the data of the known issues as part of the secondary analysis. The defect is a defect, one way or the other. You can use the secondary analysis of your PPM numbers to continue to drill down in the process. If your overall P
