General RoHS Questions
Haibing writes: Question 1: My questions are centered around RoHS judgments. That is, how I can judge whether a contract manufacturer is RoHS c...
Haibing writes: Question 1: My questions are centered around RoHS judgments. That is, how I can judge whether a contract manufacturer is RoHS c...
Folks: A reader writes: Dr. Ron I attended your seminars last year at the SMTAI Technical Conference in Chicago and Boston and discussed with you LF i...
Folks, My friend and colleague Jim Hall of ITM pointed out that the reliability of “mixed” (i.e. lead free and leaded solder and fi...
Annika writes: Dear Dr. Ron, I’m a chemist and a PhD student working in the field of atmospheric corrosion of lead and lead-tin alloys in histor...
Folks, As the clock ticks away, many people are becoming overwhelmed by WEEE and RoHS tasks. For technologists like myself, many of the RoHS tasks are...
Folks, Several weeks ago I had a blog entry asking whether or not Microsoft’s new Xbox 360 was RoHS compliant. Angela pointed me to a lin...
Folks, In the last 3 weeks I have given “Lead-Free” (Really WEEE/RoHS Compliant Assembly) workshops at Toronto, Salt Lake City, Manchester...
Folks, I read with dismay this week, an advertisement in an electronic assembly trade journal touting a “drop in” solder paste. The solder...
Folks, I am still surprised that so few people are concerned about tin pest in lead-free assembly. Below is an excerpt from a paper I wrote on the top...
Mike K, President of a Consulting Firm writes: Ron, Your response to “George” in SMT is vague, probably inaccurate, not too “educ...
Folks, Several companies have developed hand held units to aid in screening for RoHS compliance Let me start off by saying that I think such a unit wo...
Eric writes: Dr. Ron, I have an application that uses a high melting point solder. The solder has more than 85% lead. Is it exempt from RoHS? Eri...