Paul Drahn wrote:

Just read this statement from a Boeing engineer:

"Sinnett, the 787’s chief project engineer, said that in each of the
power-panel incidents electrical arcing inside a circuit board — “a low
energy arc that lasted milliseconds, very small” — had damaged the board
and shut down some of the plane’s electrical power.

He said the small spark inside the circuit boards produced no safety
hazard, only a loss of function that was handled by the plane’s
multiple, redundant power systems.

In January, Boeing had not yet found the root cause, but Sinnett said
the problems had been traced to a batch of faulty circuit boards inside
the power-distribution panels, which are located, like the batteries,
inside an electronics bay.".

Faulty because they use lead-free solder and the Humiseal didn't stop
the growth of the tin whiskers.

Paul



The Aerospace industry is exempt from lead free solder for just this
reason. Medical & Telcom are exempt, as well. That's because the
Belgian bureaucrats knew it is crap and will cause failures.