9 Nov
2011
9 Nov
'11
1:02 p.m.
On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 2:57 PM, David Riley <fraveydank at gmail.com> wrote:
Agreed. We only worked with RoHS because so many of our customers have to
see internationally. What RoHS mostly targets, I thought, was the folks
who just toss broken or outdated electronics in the trash (which, let's
face it, is probably most of the people we know because no one has ever
told them otherwise).
also, Telecom, Military and Medical hardware are exempted from RoHS. As
such, we never had to follow RoHS in our Switching Systems, I'm sure you've
heard - Lead-Free is unreliable for Hi-Rel Systems due to shorts created by
crystalline growths - ie. tin whiskers. Lead was initially added in the
early part of the 20th century to mitigate this known problem.
Unfortunately, I just read that Servers and Network systems have recently
been removed from this exemption since 2010 - oh great.
Consumer items are made like junk anyway - they're meant to be thrown away
:) But now we have this new recycling law which you are forced to pay a
recycler to dispose of consumer items. The trashman is no longer allowed to
haul away your junk. Now think what will really happens to the junk, spewn
in some remote area of the woods
What worries me more, actually, is the mandate to get rid of incandescent
bulbs before a suitable alternative that's not pumped full of mercury gas
is available. I like CFLs as a light source (well, some of them, anyway),
but I've yet to meet anyone else who doesn't just throw them in the bin
when they're dead.
LED lamps are getting cheaper