Lead-free wire soldering?

electronic

rather

circumstances,

eat

always

from

recyclers.

can't leach lead into the soil - yet

they won't even go anywhere near the

directive.

According to a friend who's just returned from a RoHS course, the new setup is pretty much identical to ISO9000, hence a paper pushers paradise. Just like ISO9000 finger pointing, the underlying RoHS idea, is if uncontrolled Mercury, Lead, Cadmium or PCBs gets out into uncontrolled products or the environment, then the paperwork will identify exactly who is to blame. RoHS understand that sometimes the use of a heavy metal is vital for equipment safety and reliability and therefore gave themselves a cop out in a kind of Asimov's first law of robotics. (results in a ... you can't blame us, we only raise awareness). Hence the lunacy of a 12V Lead acid battery being regarded as a vile despicable object, until the moment of it being fitted into a motor car. RoHS then no longer applies, as the battery failing could foreseeably cause human death and destruction. regards john

Amazing. That's a clear sign of a bureaucracy run amok. This sounds like a good idea, in theory. In practice I'm sure it's not going to look anything like the theory.

I never thought bureaucrats would leave themselves at any risk.

Thanks for the education. I'll go kiss this green-state's ground now. At least here the emphasis is recycling the bad stuff (cadmium and mercury, in particular) to keep it out of the land-fills. Lead batteries have been taking care of themselves for some time.