Re: [PEDA] tests for Pb in solder

2004-08-12 Thread Bagotronix Tech Support
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
links to the latest lead-free rules, please post them.

Any discussion is meaningless?  Who does the EU think they are, rulers of
the world?  That's our (U.S.'s) divine right ;-)

But seriously, unless someone can show a formula and process that has good
long-term solder joint reliability (as good or better than Pb), there is
going to be serious trouble with lead-free.  Imagine the implications of
early solder joint failure of lead-free electronic equipment:

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
2) Costly equipment failures in telecom and industrial equipment.  Medical
equipment failures resulting in possible patient injury or death, and the
inevitable lawsuits.
3) Disillusionment of the public when their consumer goods fail soon after
the warranty period expires

Cheap goods (MP3 players, clock radios, etc.) won't be subject to the same
expectation of quality as more expensive goods.  You can bet the consumer
will be outraged when their $5000 plasma TV stops working after 1 year.

Best regards,
Ivan Baggett
Bagotronix Inc.
website:  www.bagotronix.com


- Original Message -
From: Rene Tschaggelar [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Protel EDA Forum [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2004 3:25 PM
Subject: Re: [PEDA] tests for Pb in solder


 Ivan,
 your wish comes too late. The EU is going to require leadfree
 pcb's from 2005 onwards. As far as I know no more leaded pcb
 may be sold after 2007. While I have some understanding for
 your position, any discussion is meaningless.
 My favourite assembler already produces leadfree, and I
 have a few rolls of leaded tin to be used up.

 Rene
 --
 Ing.Buro R.Tschaggelar http://www.ibrtses.com
 Your newsgroups @  http://www.talkto.net





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Re: [PEDA] footprint clearance checking

2004-08-12 Thread Brian Guralnick
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 ignore the component's name  #, unless 
they are on another layer other than the silkscreen.

A good method to use this technique to your advantage would be to make a second 
clearance rule related to silkscreen traces without modifying the current 20 mil 
default, making sure it deals only with the footprint's keepout layer.  

Be sure your U shaped component just has no keepout defined  you should be able 
to get stuff inside the 'U'.  To really squeeze things in, try the smd stuff in my 
library.

_
Brian Guralnick


  - Original Message - 
  From: Brad Velander 
  To: 'Protel EDA Forum' 
  Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2004 11:33 AM
  Subject: Re: [PEDA] footprint clearance checking


  Brian,
  In 2004 or more recent DXP versions, did Altium ever fix the fact
  that the clearance check includes all reference designators and other
  attributes within the footprint boundary check? Such that if you had a long
  attribute string it made the footprint clearance check impossible.

  Sincerely,
  Brad Velander
  PCB Designer
  Xantrex Technology Inc.
  (direct) (604) 415-4054
  (general) (604) 422-8595 ext. 4054
  (fax) (604) 422-1591


  -Original Message-
  From: Brian Guralnick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
  Sent: August 10, 2004 10:50 PM
  To: Protel EDA Forum
  Subject: Re: [PEDA] footprint clearance checking


  Design it like all of the components in my publicly available library, where
  the silkscreen defines the outer  inner edges of where the component
  surfaces meet the PCB.  Shrink the component-component clearance to 1 mil,
  or 0 mil.  This will allow you place, for example, some caps  resistors
  right up to  under some areas of a large PCB mounted RCA jack, but, it will
  not allow you to place components too close where the silk screen area may
  touch each other.  Note that my library was intentionally designed like this
  for creating hand-held electronic devices where mounting area may be super
  constrictive.

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Re: [PEDA] tests for Pb in solder

2004-08-12 Thread Peter Smith
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 technology/ materials/
processes and are not going to share it with any one :-(

Regards,
Peter Smith


-Original Message-
From: Bagotronix Tech Support [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: 11 August 2004 21:35
To: Protel EDA Forum
Subject: Re: [PEDA] tests for Pb in solder

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
links to the latest lead-free rules, please post them.

Any discussion is meaningless?  Who does the EU think they are, rulers of
the world?  That's our (U.S.'s) divine right ;-)

But seriously, unless someone can show a formula and process that has good
long-term solder joint reliability (as good or better than Pb), there is
going to be serious trouble with lead-free.  Imagine the implications of
early solder joint failure of lead-free electronic equipment:

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
2) Costly equipment failures in telecom and industrial equipment.  Medical
equipment failures resulting in possible patient injury or death, and the
inevitable lawsuits.
3) Disillusionment of the public when their consumer goods fail soon after
the warranty period expires

Cheap goods (MP3 players, clock radios, etc.) won't be subject to the same
expectation of quality as more expensive goods.  You can bet the consumer
will be outraged when their $5000 plasma TV stops working after 1 year.

Best regards,
Ivan Baggett
Bagotronix Inc.
website:  www.bagotronix.com




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Re: [PEDA] XP SP2 stop Protel 99SE working ??

2004-08-12 Thread Ian Middleton
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 
 hasn't put
 SP2 for XP up in the automatic updates section of the Miscrosoft Website
 
 Hence the question Where is everyone getting SP2 for Windows XP?
 
 
 
 
 - Original Message - 
 From: John A. Ross [Design] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 To: Protel EDA Forum [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2004 12:00 PM
 Subject: Re: [PEDA] XP SP2 stop Protel 99SE working ??
 
 
  -Original Message-
  From: Ian Middleton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Sent: 11 August 2004 16:29
  To: Protel EDA Forum
  Subject: [PEDA] XP SP2 stop Protel 99SE working ??
 
  Dear all,
 
  I am seeing Protel 99SE hanging with scanning documents
  when opening a ddb file after having installed XP SP2.
 
  Will investigate further, but SP2 looks a prime candidate to
  have caused the problem.
 
 Ian
 
 http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/maintain/sp2mempr.
 mspx  
 
 http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=windowsxpsp2
 
 Also a reply on the DXP forum from Altium
 
  snip 
 Yes, we have tested DXP with XP SP2 and also XP 64-bit version. These
 OS's display some problems, but only if you have a 64 bit machine. The
 problems specifically are to do with scripts and VHDL simulation. These
 problems should be resolved for the SP2 release.
 
 Regards
 David Wang,
 Altium
 
  snip 
 
 You can experience some problems if you're running DXP on Athlon64
 machine with Windows XP SP2 installed.
 We intend to fix these issues in SP2, till then there is an easy
 workaround:
 
 Right click on My Computer and select Properties. The System
 Properties dialog opens. Switch to Advanced tab and click Perfomance
 Settings.
 Perfomance Options dialog comes up and the last tab on that dialog is
 named Data Execution Prevention (DEP). There you can use Add button and
 add DXP.EXE to the list of programs that are not affected by DEP.
 That should fix it.
 
 Best wishes,
 Sergey Kostinsky
 Altium
  snip 
 
 All good fun ;-)
 
 John
 
 
 
 
 
 



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Re: [PEDA] tests for Pb in solder

2004-08-12 Thread Ian Middleton
[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.  Medical
 equipment failures resulting in possible patient injury or death, and the
 inevitable lawsuits.

Medical equipment is exempt.
Industrial monitoring and control instruments are exempt.


 3) Disillusionment of the public when their consumer goods fail soon after
 the warranty period expires his for years ;-)

I think this was the early lead free stuff that used bismuth. Most big
Japanese manufacturers have been lead free for a year or two now. My
Panasonic TV is lead free (actually RoHS, reduction of hazardous substances)
and is over two years old. Got a feeling all electronic equipment sold in
Japan must be lead free already.

You are all confusing a two things RoHS and WEEE (Waste from Electrical and
Electronic Equipment).

Useful sites are:
http://www.envirowise.gov.uk/
http://www.dti.gov.uk/




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Re: [PEDA] tests for Pb in solder

2004-08-12 Thread Bagotronix Tech Support
 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 years.  I expect my
purchases to last a loong time.  I still have (and use regularly) stereo
equipment from the early 80's.  Yes, I said stereo.  That's 2.0 channel
sound, to all you multi-channel N.1 freaks.  If you look hard enough, you
can still find audio systems with fewer than 3 speakers ;-)

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 others
have been mechanical problems or just plain wear out.

I like Sony VCRs (VHS, not Beta) because they are easy to setup and program.
But it seems they've given me a reason not to buy anymore.  And I won't use
their Memory Stick, ATRAC(?) sound compression, or any devices that
incorporate them.

 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 technology/ materials/
 processes and are not going to share it with any one :-(

Patents - that sounds like the real reason for switching to lead free.
Force everyone to license your patents, and rake in the cash.

Best regards,
Ivan Baggett
Bagotronix Inc.
website:  www.bagotronix.com


- Original Message -
From: Peter Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: 'Protel EDA Forum' [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 5:26 AM
Subject: Re: [PEDA] tests for Pb in solder


 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 technology/ materials/
 processes and are not going to share it with any one :-(

 Regards,
 Peter Smith





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Re: [PEDA] XP SP2 stop Protel 99SE working ??

2004-08-12 Thread Brian Guralnick
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 RE-install XP from scratch, directly to SP2, here is how to make a 
bootable install CD:
http://www.winbeta.org/forums/index.php?act=STf=7t=5640

Good Luck.

_
Brian Guralnick


  - Original Message - 
  From: Ian Middleton 
  To: Protel EDA Forum 
  Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 11:17 AM
  Subject: Re: [PEDA] XP SP2 stop Protel 99SE working ??


  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 
   hasn't put
   SP2 for XP up in the automatic updates section of the Miscrosoft Website
   
   Hence the question Where is everyone getting SP2 for Windows XP?
   
   
   
   
   - Original Message - 
   From: John A. Ross [Design] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   To: Protel EDA Forum [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2004 12:00 PM
   Subject: Re: [PEDA] XP SP2 stop Protel 99SE working ??
   
   
-Original Message-
From: Ian Middleton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 11 August 2004 16:29
To: Protel EDA Forum
Subject: [PEDA] XP SP2 stop Protel 99SE working ??
   
Dear all,
   
I am seeing Protel 99SE hanging with scanning documents
when opening a ddb file after having installed XP SP2.
   
Will investigate further, but SP2 looks a prime candidate to
have caused the problem.
   
   Ian
   
   http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/maintain/sp2mempr.
   mspx  
   
   http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=windowsxpsp2
   
   Also a reply on the DXP forum from Altium
   
snip 
   Yes, we have tested DXP with XP SP2 and also XP 64-bit version. These
   OS's display some problems, but only if you have a 64 bit machine. The
   problems specifically are to do with scripts and VHDL simulation. These
   problems should be resolved for the SP2 release.
   
   Regards
   David Wang,
   Altium
   
snip 
   
   You can experience some problems if you're running DXP on Athlon64
   machine with Windows XP SP2 installed.
   We intend to fix these issues in SP2, till then there is an easy
   workaround:
   
   Right click on My Computer and select Properties. The System
   Properties dialog opens. Switch to Advanced tab and click Perfomance
   Settings.
   Perfomance Options dialog comes up and the last tab on that dialog is
   named Data Execution Prevention (DEP). There you can use Add button and
   add DXP.EXE to the list of programs that are not affected by DEP.
   That should fix it.
   
   Best wishes,
   Sergey Kostinsky
   Altium
snip 
   
   All good fun ;-)
   
   John
   
   
   
   
   
   



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Re: [PEDA] tests for Pb in solder

2004-08-12 Thread Rick Barrett

 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 this 
chemical from Du... chemical company that IS EPA approved (wow how 'd that one slip 
in). 


Rick



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Re: [PEDA] tests for Pb in solder

2004-08-12 Thread Brian Guralnick
|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 others
|have been mechanical problems or just plain wear out.

LOL, things failing after 3 years, how typical of Sony after 1989,  I'd be
suprised if better than 66% of their stuff brand new would fully functions
properly today.  I dont think it's a Pb free issue here, it's just Sony...

My Sony SLV-757 still works like the day I bough it.  Back in 1988.  It
still makes the best VHS recordings  has the best sound compared to
anything I can get today.  Only the latest perfect-tape players have a
better playback picture, however, they are crap when it comes to sound
playback  record and picture record, especially when it comes to CATV tuner
sources.

_
Brian Guralnick


- Original Message - 
From: Bagotronix Tech Support
To: Protel EDA Forum
Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 2:21 PM
Subject: Re: [PEDA] tests for Pb in solder


 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 years.  I expect my
purchases to last a loong time.  I still have (and use regularly) stereo
equipment from the early 80's.  Yes, I said stereo.  That's 2.0 channel
sound, to all you multi-channel N.1 freaks.  If you look hard enough, you
can still find audio systems with fewer than 3 speakers ;-)

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 others
have been mechanical problems or just plain wear out.

I like Sony VCRs (VHS, not Beta) because they are easy to setup and program.
But it seems they've given me a reason not to buy anymore.  And I won't use
their Memory Stick, ATRAC(?) sound compression, or any devices that
incorporate them.

 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 technology/ materials/
 processes and are not going to share it with any one :-(

Patents - that sounds like the real reason for switching to lead free.
Force everyone to license your patents, and rake in the cash.

Best regards,
Ivan Baggett
Bagotronix Inc.
website:  www.bagotronix.com




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Re: [PEDA] footprint clearance checking

2004-08-12 Thread Ian Wilson
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 20+ clearance errors? (not preferred)
- turning off clearance checking? (not preferred)
- turning off clearance checking for that one connector whilst in that
position (how?)?
Dom,
Have you got the component clearance check set to Full Check - Full Check 
does not just use the bounding box for DRC.  In P2004 SP1 the Full Check 
mode now works with on-line DRC, not only batch DRC.  Users asked for this 
capability not long before SP1 was released and it made it in which is 
nice.  I assume you don't have any primitives outside the real boundary of 
the component, as this will stuff up Full Checks ability to slot components 
in corners.  I regularly put 0603 and 0402 components in the corner of 
SOT-223 (next to the larger tab) - Full check mode works fine in this case.

If you are trying to deliberately overlap components (their primitives 
overlap) there is a technique that is often discussed on the DXP forum:

http://forums.altium.com/cgi-bin/showthread.asp?id=32063list=dxp
is a link to the recent discussion - the link is not complete as there is a 
problem with archiving some emails.  I have been asking Altium about this 
issue for some time now - it does tend to devalue the archive if you can't 
trust that all posts are archived.

The missing follow-up was that the IsComponent part of the rule is not 
needed as only components can be in a component class. Also, the missing 
follow-up discussed using rooms (possibly polygonal) and component height 
rule(s) to control the height of components under the stood off components.

Ian Wilson

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Re: [PEDA] tests for Pb in solder

2004-08-12 Thread Steven A. Berneberg
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 a
couple of joints (10-15) and now everything is OK.



-Original Message-
From: Ian Middleton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 7:35 AM
To: Protel EDA Forum
Subject: Re: [PEDA] tests for Pb in solder


[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.  Medical
 equipment failures resulting in possible patient injury or death, and the
 inevitable lawsuits.

Medical equipment is exempt.
Industrial monitoring and control instruments are exempt.


 3) Disillusionment of the public when their consumer goods fail soon after
 the warranty period expires his for years ;-)

I think this was the early lead free stuff that used bismuth. Most big
Japanese manufacturers have been lead free for a year or two now. My
Panasonic TV is lead free (actually RoHS, reduction of hazardous substances)
and is over two years old. Got a feeling all electronic equipment sold in
Japan must be lead free already.

You are all confusing a two things RoHS and WEEE (Waste from Electrical and
Electronic Equipment).

Useful sites are:
http://www.envirowise.gov.uk/
http://www.dti.gov.uk/








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