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Article: Pb-free solder joint reliability: In God we trust; all others must supply data.(Better Manufacturing)
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- Circuits Assembly
- Article date:
- December 1, 2006
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"You give up something for everything you gain ...
So pay for your ticket and don't complain."--Bob Dylan
The RoHS Directive and Pb-free may be a wrong direction for a number of reasons, some valid, others questionable. The same can be said about why RoHS may be beneficial. At the heart of the debate is the environmental question upon which RoHS was promulgated. The RoHS Resistance Movement, as I call it, is quick to note the oft-cited University of Stuttgart study (1), which asserts that the harm RoHS causes to the environment outweighs the benefits. While there are some gaps in that study and a follow-up would be great, it is nonetheless data.
But ...