Rene:
your wish comes too late.
No, I've been wishing this for years ;-)
I have not checked the EU rules lately, but IIRC they have some exemptions
for industrial, medical, and military equipment. Since our products are
used in these areas, I think we fall into this category. If anyone has
Sorry, I have not yet made the move to DXP. Keep in mind that my library
components do not have keep-outs defined for any footprints. I've designed them so
that Protel's clearance constraint rule ends up using the slik-screen traces as it's
guide. So far, in my setup, P99se seems to
Most of the major Japanese manufactures have been lead free for over 3 or 4
years, I guess there reliability is so good as you haven't even noticed the
difference ;-)
I have looked into this over here (in the UK) and it seems Sony are one of
the world leaders, they have patents all over there
A XP SP2 beta tester, got at the weekend.
-Original Message-
From: Joe Sapienza [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 11 August 2004 17:22
To: Protel EDA Forum
Subject: Re: [PEDA] XP SP2 stop Protel 99SE working ??
Excuse me for asking the obvious: I just checked and Billy Gates
[Big snip]
1) Expensive automobiles having to be scrapped prematurely because their
ECMs quit working, and all the junkyard car ECMs don't work either, due to
the same failure of solder joints
I think cars are exempt.
2) Costly equipment failures in telecom and industrial equipment.
Most of the major Japanese manufactures have been lead free for over 3 or
4
years, I guess there reliability is so good as you haven't even noticed
the
difference ;-)
You're right, I haven't noticed the difference in a measly 3-4 years. I
also haven't bought much consumer gear in the past 3-4
That's odd, the beta of XP SP2 just ended the final has been released:
Download as 1 big 266mb install file, great for installing on multiple PCs from burned
CD.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=049C9DBE-3B8E-4F30-8245-9E368D3CDB5Adisplaylang=en
If you want to
Patents - that sounds like the real reason for switching to lead free.
Force everyone to license your patents, and rake in the cash.
Amen! Sounds like the PCB cleaning solvent issue. MFGRs basically stopped using
Iso-Alcohol for washing boards, because it was not EPA approved. But you can use
|Now that you mention it, I'll have a look inside my Sony VCR that I bought
|about 5 years ago. The tuner and IR receiver went flaky on it about 2
years
|ago. The mechanism is still good. Maybe it was their first lead free
|experiment. I've never had another VCR that failed in that way, the
On 01:10 PM 11/08/2004, Dom Bragge said:
I have a connector that could be viewed as a large U when placed on
the board. If I want to place other components within this U shape
(not overlapping the physical connector but within the bounding box)
what choices do I have:
- permanently enjoying the
I guess I now know why my ProScan TV is having audio problems. I found
several bad solder joints when I the company that I purchased this TV from
wanted $190 to fix the problem. Just took off the back of the TV and looked
closely with a magnifying glass and did not like what I saw. Re-soldered
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