RoHS is it all the hype?

[Shindo_Hikaru]

The RoHS Directive stands for "the restriction of the use of certain hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment". This Directive bans the placing on the EU market of new electrical and electronic equipment containing more than agreed levels of lead, cadmium, mercury, hexavalent chromium, polybrominated biphenyl (PBB) and polybrominated diphenyl ether (PBDE) flame retardants.

Manufacturers need to understand the requirements of the RoHS Directive to ensure that their products, and their components, comply.

The RoHS Directive and the UK RoHS regulations came into force on 1 July 2006.

The RoHS Directive is an Article 95 single market directive.

The National Weights and Measures Laboratory (NWML) has been awarded the contract to set up the UK’s national RoHS enforcement body. We are now delivering RoHS enforcement since the regulations were fully implemented on the 1st July 2006.

RoHS also affects US anf foreign business that conduct business in Europen nations. Californa also has laws that make companies RoHS compliant.

[ripken204]

well its just supposed to make it so that we dont f*** up the world anymore than we have to

[Jeremy]

Easy now, don't want to turn this topic into a war of the morals, rippy.

[ripken204]

lol. youre right but we're screwed anyways.

[Jeremy]

That's only a perspective or expectation, not a fact.

[puntoMX]

Soon we live on mars to f*ck up the place there .

Europe always worked on "laws" for clean industry, also worked on a standard for energy usage. If you go to the shop there you can see on stickers placed on the product, for example a refrigerator, how much it will use a year.

I moved from The Netherlands (Holland) to Mexico and I’m missing these stickers, even I can’t find labels on the equipment of wattage use and so, not even thinking about the "COS Pi" (Angle between voltage and amperes) to calculate the “real” power usage of a product.

Any way, safety standards are high in Europe, especially in Sweden and Norway .

[RJM]

And we will all be fighting tin wiskers with lead free solder.

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RoHS

With some exceptions.

Applications of lead, mercury, cadmium and hexavalent chromium, which are exempted from the requirements of Article 4(1)

1. Mercury in compact fluorescent lamps not exceeding 5 mg per lamp.

2. Mercury in straight fluorescent lamps for general purposes not exceeding:

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3. Mercury in straight fluorescent lamps for special purposes.

4. Mercury in other lamps not specifically mentioned in this Annex.

5. Lead in glass of cathode ray tubes, electronic components and fluorescent tubes.

6. Lead as an alloying element in steel containing up to 0,35 % lead by weight, aluminium containing up to 0,4 % lead by weight and as a copper alloy containing up to 4 % lead by weight.

7. - Lead in high melting temperature type solders (i.e. tin-lead solder alloys containing more than 85 % lead),

- lead in solders for servers, storage and storage array systems (exemption granted until 2010),

- lead in solders for network infrastructure equipment for switching, signalling, transmission as well as network management for telecommunication,

- lead in electronic ceramic parts (e.g. piezoelectronic devices).

8. Cadmium plating except for applications banned under Directive 91/338/EEC(1) amending Directive 76/769/EEC(2) relating to restrictions on the marketing and use of certain dangerous substances and preparations.

9. Hexavalent chromium as an anti-corrosion of the carbon steel cooling system in absorption refrigerators.

Edited July 27, 2006 by RJM