How a Poor Soldering Job Brought Down the LHC »
Posted By TechnologyExpert 1 year, 2 months ago in Science & TechnologyAs I wrote previously, the world's largest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will be out of action until spring because of a helium leak into the tunnel. While scientists are still not 100% sure what the problem was --- the tunnel still needs to be warmed from its normal supercool temperature so inspectors can analyze the section --- they have their suspicions.
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earthlingerer1 year, 2 months ago
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As someone living in the EU, and a hobbyist electronices tinkerer, I'd say it's probably that crappy RoHS lead free solder that's been imposed on us in the name of lead-free regulations.
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