Comments on: Doing Our Part http://www.connector.com/2010/07/doing-our-part/ Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:10:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: connectr http://www.connector.com/2010/07/doing-our-part/comment-page-1/#comment-11 connectr Wed, 18 Aug 2010 03:59:52 +0000 http://www.connector.com/?p=259#comment-11 While I am sure that RoHS compliance is very important to many lemmings following the European model, those of us who design products that must perform for 20, 30 or 40 years, regard long term reliability far higher. The problem of tin whisker growth on pure tin leads is enough to prevent the entire aerospace business from ever being RoHS compliant. Thanks to our legal system where court findings are sealed, we may never know if the reliability issues that Toyota has had or Nokia were due to tin whisker growth or not. If you would like to do a service to your customers tell them about NASA's website on the subject - http://nepp.nasa.gov/whisker/ Hopefully, Molex will continue to offer some products that ARE NOT RoHS compliant. While I am sure that RoHS compliance is very important to many lemmings following the European model, those of us who design products that must perform for 20, 30 or 40 years, regard long term reliability far higher. The problem of tin whisker growth on pure tin leads is enough to prevent the entire aerospace business from ever being RoHS compliant.

Thanks to our legal system where court findings are sealed, we may never know if the reliability issues that Toyota has had or Nokia were due to tin whisker growth or not. If you would like to do a service to your customers tell them about NASA’s website on the subject – http://nepp.nasa.gov/whisker/

Hopefully, Molex will continue to offer some products that ARE NOT RoHS compliant.

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