Prototype evaluation, research & development testing, production testing, accelerated stress testing, reliability testing, failure analysis, etc. these are some of the types of testing where climatic test chambers are used. In fact, a climatic test chamber can be used for any such application that requires the simulation of a particular climate.

Climatic Test Chamber: Climatic Simulation

Temperature, humidity, altitude, vibration, solar, wind & rain, dust, etc. climatic test chambers can simulate virtually any kind of climatic condition. You can find these test chambers with interior workspace for 1.2 cubic feet. For cold chambers, the temperature capabilities can start down to -300 degree F, and for the extreme high temperature conditions, it can even go up to +1000 degree F. The interiors of these chambers are made of stainless steel with powder coated finishing.

Next we'll take a look at a few of the more common types of climatic test chambers available on the market.

Highly Accelerated Life Test

This test chamber is used to locate a product weakness and assess its life. It performs such functions with a combination of temperature, shock and vibration.

Highly Accelerated Stress Screening

This climatic test chamber is used for production units. It performs its function by fast temperature cycling.

Temperature chambers

These test chambers tests the effects on a product over a range of temperature conditions by simulating temperature. It combines climatic conditions, such as humidity, altitude, and vibration, etc in order to perform its functions.

Humidity Chambers

Humidity chambers are used to simulate humidity and consequently tests the effects on the product over different humidity conditions. This test chamber can perform its function either with or without temperature.

Bench up Test Chambers

These test chambers require very little floor space in comparison to other test chambers. They are specially designed to test small products.

Thermal Shock Chambers

In this climatic test chamber, the temperature rapidly changes from extreme cold to extreme hot climate. This way, it performs its function by shocking and stressing the product thermally.

Liquid-to-liquid Thermal Shock Chambers

In this test chamber, the product is transferred through the hot and cold liquid without any contamination and the test is performed by immersing a part or assembly in hot and cold liquid.

Air-to-air thermal Shock Chambers

This climatic test chamber works by transferring the product from a hot chamber to a cold chamber, and they are available in various configurations, including two zone, three zone, and double duty.

In fact, there is a long list of climatic test chambers, which may include altitude chambers, climatic stress screening chambers, walk-in chambers, drive in chambers, etc.