The Restriction of the Use of Certain Hazardous Substances (RoHS)
Directive
The European Parliament passed the Restriction of the Use of Certain
Hazardous Substances (RoHS) directive in 2002 (2002/95/EC) to
"protect human health and the environment by restricting the use of
certain hazardous substances in new equipment" and to complement the
Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (Producer Responsibility)
Regulations ("the WEEE regulations" 2002/96/EC). The directive
took effect from 1st July 2006, and covers the same scope of equipment as
the WEEE regulations, except that Category 8, Medical Devices, and
Category 9, Monitoring and Control Instruments, are excluded from the RoHS
directive.
Products from SIGNAL RECOVERY
fall under Category 9 of the RoHS directive and so are outside its scope.
We recognize, however, that designing products that do not use hazardous
substances is of benefit not only to the environment but also to our
customers and employees. We are therefore working towards
producing products which are fully RoHS compliant. Initially work is
focused on new products in development, but we are also taking the
opportunity when updating existing instruments to use RoHS compliant
components and techniques wherever possible.
SIGNAL RECOVERY instruments are used in various
applications that may affect customer requirements for RoHS compliance.
Normally, our customers do not require RoHS compliant products, including
customers using our products for development or production of their end
products, as well as customers who embed one of our instruments in an end
product that is itself classified as either Category 8 or Category 9. A SIGNAL
RECOVERY product will require RoHS compliance only if a customer
sells an end product that falls within the RoHS directive's scope. If you
are one of these customers then please contact us
for further advice.
Note that the following SIGNAL RECOVERY models are now
certified as being RoHS compliant:
Model 7270 DSP Lock-in Amplifier
Model 7124 Precision Lock-in Amplifier
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