Mira, I'm not sure about Brad's luck! As Bob also stated lead free will be the norm in the near future and his avionics guys will ask for leaded products due to reliability issues.
But back to your first statement about leaded BGA in lead free processes: " Due to these problems BGAs are the only parts that will remain leaded even on a PB-free board. " I'm not THE expert but would have big question marks about reliability of mixing leaded BGA balls with lead free solder paste resulting in a completely unknown alloy and intermetallic effects. Besides that they are definitely not exempt from RoHS! Do you have any further papers about this? BTW this discussion is quite off topic but for all interested or in need of lead free theres a LF list to subscribe at IPC: http://listserv.ipc.org/scripts/wa.exe regards, Emanuel --- MPL AG www.mpl.ch Emanuel Zimmermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager R&D Phone: +41 56 483'34'34 Taefernstrasse 20 Fax: +41 56 493'30'20 CH-5405 Daettwil --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 09.12.2005 05:00:02: > Brad, you are lucky. > > I don't have time to look for more documents right now > but you may check these links: > http://www.ageussolutions.com/ > http://de.farnell.com/images/en_UK/bespoke/rohs.pdf > > Batteries are exempted: > > http://www.dti.gov.uk/sustainability/weee/RoHS_Regs_Draft_Guidance.pdf > > I think I read somewhere about the BGAs in regards to > the soldering problems but I'm not sure if all are > exempted. I'll post it if I find it. > > Mira > > > --- Brad Velander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Count me lucky or what, LF is not a concern to us? > > Reportedly (I have not seen anything in writing > > that grants that exemption but others swear to it) > > we are exempt as avionic equipment. > > > > Sincerely, > > Brad Velander > > Senior PCB Designer > > Northern Airborne Technology > > #14 - 1925 Kirschner Road, > > Kelowna, BC, V1Y 4N7. > > tel (250) 763-2329 ext. 225 > > fax (250) 762-3374 > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Mira [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 10:10 AM > > To: Protel EDA Discussion List > > Subject: Re: [PEDA] Via Solder Thieving, heard of > > this? > > > > > > Due to these problems BGAs are the only parts that > > will remain leaded even on a PB-free board. > > > > Mira > > > > --- Dennis Saputelli > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > that is a good point > > > in fact i have been wondering about how to clean > > > under these things, it > > > has been my understanding that for BGAs the > > > preferred process is > > > no-clean because water is 'too big' and solvent is > > a > > > no-no > > > again, how does all this relate to lead-free ? > > > i think LF needs a more aggressive flux, correct ? > > > > > > ds > > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________ > > You are subscribed to the PEDA discussion forum > > > > To Post messages: > > mailto:[email protected] > > > > Unsubscribe and Other Options: > > > http://techservinc.com/mailman/listinfo/peda_techservinc.com > > > > Browse or Search Old Archives (2001-2004): > > > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > > > > Browse or Search Current Archives (2004-Current): > > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > > > ____________________________________________________________ > You are subscribed to the PEDA discussion forum > > To Post messages: > mailto:[email protected] > > Unsubscribe and Other Options: > http://techservinc.com/mailman/listinfo/peda_techservinc.com > > Browse or Search Old Archives (2001-2004): > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > > Browse or Search Current Archives (2004-Current): > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > ____________________________________________________________ You are subscribed to the PEDA discussion forum To Post messages: mailto:[email protected] Unsubscribe and Other Options: http://techservinc.com/mailman/listinfo/peda_techservinc.com Browse or Search Old Archives (2001-2004): http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] Browse or Search Current Archives (2004-Current): http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
