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Default Lead free solder - exposed in a UK national newspaper



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N_Cook wrote:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology...ch.engineering

Within a whisker of failure


About time too.

Never mind the reduced reliability (see the ERA study) caused by lead-free
solder when equipment is exposed to vibration.

Graham


Before I waste time downloading an irrelevant pdf

would this be what you be referring to :

Review of Directive 2002/95/EC (RoHS) Categories 8 and 9 - Final

http://ec.europa.eu/environment/wast...nal_report.pdf

Results of vibration testing lead-free solder from different researchers ...


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