Re: gEDA-user: stupid lead-free

[Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 27 July 2008, Bob Paddock wrote:
>On Sunday 27 July 2008 07:49:10 am gene wrote:
>> have you guys seen the 'tin-whisker' problem with lead free solder?
>
>Note that these links are from 2006, but still give an interesting
> background.
>
>http://www.greensupplyline.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=181401276
>
>http://www.indium.com/blogs/Dr-Lasky-Blog/entry.php?id=444
>has some interesting things to say about this issue.
>Like SWatch's billion dollar recall.
>
>Designing ultrahigh impedance circuits like Electrostatic meters,
>or ultra low power circuits have always been problematic.
>Lead Free isn't doing anything to make things easier.
>
>What I find most annoying is the comment in the above blog
>that he considers five years "long term".  See a previous
>rant of mine on this issue:
>
>http://www.dragonsgate.net/pipermail/icc-avr/2002-October/000347.html
>
><RANT ON>
>I want my products to have a life of 10 to 20 *YEARS*, not 6 months.
>I do my designing in the region of the country affectionately called "The
> Rust Belt" by the Semiconductor people.
>We do the unglamorous things like water and sewage treatment controls for
>example.  The infrastructures can't afford to "upgrade" every few months
> just because some one wants to play PacMan on their Cell Phone.
>Consider this:  Which is more important to you: A)  You can play PacMan on
>your Cell Phone.  B) When you flush it goes away and you don't have to think
>about it.
> <RANT OFF>

Excellent rant. S/B forced reading for the regulators. 
>
>[Can anyone explain this grammatical anomaly that
>the spelling checkers says "ultrahigh" is a correctly spelled
>word, but "ultralow" is not?]

Dunno, mine seems to have stopped working recently.

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