Thanks Mira,
However, like most of the articles published the comments you quoted
are misleading and very incomplete. I know that we (Avionics) have not been
given any official nor formal exemption. Military possibly, avionics not.
Possibly the avionics he is speaking of is actually aerospace. Avionics as
defined for our products as being plane/helicopter based fight, control and
communications systems
My comments before were based upon a lot of comments by these so-called
experts (you run into lots of them at many of these trade seminars on RoHS and
WEEE) stating that avionics are exempt. We even have some within our own
company that believe this. The fact is that an exemption for avionics has been
applied for, it has not been granted and no one seems to know when the EU will
even deal with it. There is a group of avionics companies (ones with big legal
depts or budgets) that have basically prepared a legal position that basically
states that the EU has failed to deal with the exemption application, therefore
why would they spend millions only to have the EU grant an exemption at a later
date. Our company is playing follow the leader(s) tagging along behind their
big legal departments, at the moment.
If anyone wants to carry on this conversation, we really should move it
over to the OT forum before we rile up the Techserve gods or other forum
members that don't appreciate the topic. I can't go over there and chat with
myself (at least not without a visit from some of my workmates whom may be
concerned if I am carrying on email conversations with myself). I posted an
initial email or two to move the thread to OT but no one has followed yet.
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: Tuesday, December 13, 2005 3:34 PM
To: Protel EDA Discussion List
Subject: [PEDA] avionics
Bill, nice site. Thanks for providing the link.
Brad,
I know you are interested in avionics and RoHS. I just
opened my SMT magazine (November 2005) and there is an
article on page 12 "Selling to Military Markets After
RoHS" by Craig Hunter.
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