For those interested, google tin wiskers and look up the NASA web site
that has lots of good pictures. It is scary to think people actually
build equipment with that stuff.
Needless to say, in my business (military electronics), nobody wants to
hear about lead free solder. The prime
I forgot to mention that in our products, we use 100% MIL-SPEC conformal
coating, which seems to slow the growth of tin wiskers to the point of
not being a significant concern (at least from the people knowledgeable
in the process,) and our customers are buying it.
As Chuck pointed out, simply
