Questions tagged [lead-free]
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Lead-acid uninterruptible power supply safety [closed]
I use a UPS (Cyber Power, this one) that secures my PC from short blackouts.
It is located on the floor in my home office. When recently my kids were playing next to it, I started to ask myself if it'...
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Breathed in lead-free solder fumes, should I be worried? [duplicate]
A few weeks back I was being a moron and decided to solder something with lead-free solder. I didn't have any experience soldering so I assumed lead-free solder was harmless, and I breathed in loads ...
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Lead free solder latest technology?
Back when I was working in a electronics company in 2004, we had a new directive coming in - RoHS. Since then, we were forced to use lead free solder. I understand the dangers of lead poisoning, but ...
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How hazardous is simply handling leaded solder?
I'm a beginning hobbyist with a pregnant wife, which makes me nervous about lead. I have a breakout board that is RoHS-non-compliant, very likely containing leaded solder. How worried should I be ...
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BGA reballing and reflowing, how to actually repair dead GPU chips?
To my understanding BGA reflowing is a technique which aims to reconnect bad solder joints on a BGA chip, BGA reballing is a technique to desolder and then resolder a BGA chip both aim to do the same ...
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Can leaded BGA chips be reflow soldered with lead-free process?
We have a board with two BGA chips. Due to the current shortage of many parts, one of the chips is next-to-impossible to find; except that we found a supplier with a good stock of the non-RoHS / ...
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Soldering Iron Temperature for Lead Free Solder (Sn99.3%, Cu0.7%)
Recently I bought this lead free solder (Sn99.3%, Cu0.7%), D0.6mm.
I have seen many suggest at least 350°C for soldering iron.
But I tried at around 225°C (between 200°C - 250°C), the solder still ...
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How can I prevent lead free solder from ruining my soldering iron tip? Can I re-tin my tips?
I have been using a Weller WLC 100 for about 10 years, and I have always used this conical tip from Apex Tool Group:
Recently I have been using tin/silver/copper (Sn96.5Ag3Cu0.5) lead free solder - I'...
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What do these two icons mean?
Left one - "no plumbum/lead"
Right one - "triangular invert color no picking by hand"
(found on BeagleBone Green)
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Resistors with lead-free coating
I know it is bad to solder lead-free devices, such as resistors, with lead. However, is it possible (with less effort) to remove this lead-free coating on the resistors to make it possible to solder ...
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Lead/Ball Finish on TI parts
I will be using the TMP117 in a design I'm working on, and was a bit curious to what the difference is between the different Lead/Ball finishes listed in the datasheet?
There's a choice between ...
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How to switch a leaded solder soldering station over to lead free solder
I have a soldering station which used leaded solder. I now want to switch over to lead free solder and as such I want to clean the tip.
How can I clean the tip of the soldering iron such that I can ...
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Transitioning to lead-free reflow and soldering
I have recently been thinking about moving to a lead-free process for my production and though I've been reading up, I was hoping someone more knowledgable than me would be able to point me in the ...
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Why does solder smell of incense? [closed]
Sorry for the general nature of this question. But I have always asked myself what makes solder fumes smell of incense.
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Optimal soldering iron specs for lead-free
I do most of my soldering with/directing children and so we always using lead-free solder (and thru hole and nothing too complicated).
I have a soldering iron station that has two settings, 20W &...
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