Testing and Measurement Equipment – Environmental Test Chambers
Testing and Measurement Equipment – Environmental Test Chambers
The devices used for testing, measuring, analyzing, controlling, displaying and recording data in various test situations are often referred with a common name called testing and measurement equipment. The most common use of test and measurement equipment can be found in test laboratories, research & development centers, medical, electronics, automotive, defense and aerospace fields. One of the widely popular and commonly used categories of test measurement equipment includes environmental test chambers.
Environmental test chambers are the equipments used to ensure the reliability of industrial products, especially the electronic items, through prolonged exposure to one or more environmental parameters. These kinds of devices often provide heating or cooling and subject the samples, components, or products to extreme temperatures, thermal cycling, or humidity to test their reliance in various climatic situations. There are various kinds of environmental test chambers available in the market.
Some of the common varieties of environmental simulation chambers that facilitate for various kinds of environmental reliability testing on the products include temperature test chambers, humidity test chambers, environmental stress screening chambers, altitude test chambers, drive-in chambers, remote conditioners, production chilling chambers, liquid conditioners, dust test chambers, fuel conditioners, vibration test chambers and many more. These are often programmable type of chambers which include easy-to-use computerized interfaces and application-specific software for remote monitoring. These devices test the products for effects of various kinds of temperatures, humidity levels, altitudes, environmental stress factors etc. They often include an analog meter, digital readout, or video display for accurate and proper display of test results. Now-a-days even web-enabled environmental test chambers and rooms are also available. There are corrosion test chambers which measure corrosion and its possibilities and effects on various products. These are often used to monitor the effects of variables such as heat, humidity, salt fog, salt spray, and rain spray on the items. Some of them are designed to be used by mounting on top of a desk, table, or work bench and are commonly called as bench top test chambers. There are large walk-in chambers which have full or over sized doors to equip large items. Automotive testing, electronic testing, telecommunications testing, aerospace testing, material storage, coating preparation and biomedical storage are some of their common applications.
While judging the environmental test chambers for purchase factors like temperature range, temperature control accuracy, humidity range, humidity control accuracy, and chamber capacity should be checked out. The devices with most various advanced, convenient and easily controllable user interface options parameter control options, keypads, digital readouts, remote monitoring and power saving options are wise to select.
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