Our climatic chambers can control the air temperature over the range from -70C to 180C and achieve relative humidity of up to 97%RH. Temperature ramp rates are typically 0.5C per minute to 1C per minute but rates of up to 5C per minute are available in some cabinets. These cabinets provide a cost effective solution for long term storage tests. They are routinely used to assess the integrity of transport packaging and to monitor the operation of equipment under environmental stress.

These chambers are typically used for thermal stress testing of circuit boards and equipment. Rapid temperature changes are produced by using liquid nitrogen to cool the chambers. Temperature changes  of up to 50C per minute are experienced by the test samples.

An air to air thermal shock machine is also available which can transfer samples from a zone at high temperature (up to 150C) to a zone at low temperature (as low as -60C) in less than 30 seconds.

A Qualmark OVS-2.5 HALT/HASS chamber is available  and is typically used  to assess any potential design shortcomings using omni-axial (6 degrees of freedom) random vibration  combined with high ramp rate temperature cycling. Ramp rates as high as 60C are achieved using LN2 cooling. The test aims to establish the environmental extremes before failure occurs.