Resources

Articles about environmental testing and test chambers

• How Chambers Work

  Articles about different aspects of how test chambers work, and why they may be limited.

  • What is an AGREE Chamber?
  • Why is airflow important?
  • De-humidification (or how to lower humidity)
  • What is an expansion valve?
  • High temperature limits of test chambers
  • How humidity control works
  • Methods of Humidity Generation
  • Humidity Measurement: Analog versus Digital
  • How do test chambers get so cold?
  • Special tests: Rain, Dust, & Altitude
  • What is a HAST test?

• Buying and Installing a Chamber

  Articles to understand making a test chamber purchase and planning for installation and use.

  • About air-cooled chambers
  • Purchase considerations for Benchtops
  • Supplying Humidity Water
  • Chamber preventative maintenance overview
  • Moving-in my new chamber
  • Obsolete Model Look-up Page
  • Demo of SCP-220 controller
  • SCP-220 touch-screen controller info & demo
  • About water-cooled chambers

• Application Guides

  Articles explaining how to use certain test methods or chamber types.

  • Battery Test Methods and Specifications
  • Battery Testing Chambers
  • Solar Photovoltaic Testing Chambers
  • Stimulation versus simulation
  • Defining 'thermal shock'
  • More on defining 'thermal shock'
  • Testing standards for Thermal Shock

• Newsletter

  Learn more about chambers thru our bi-montly newsletter

  • Sign-up for our bi-monthly newsletter

• Technology Reports

  Our bi-annual reports collect technical articles about testing, test chambers, and ESPEC news.

  • Back Issues of our Technology Report
  • Sign up for email notification of new Technology Reports
  • Link to website with ESPEC Technology Reports

• Telcordia Test Methods

  • Telcordia (Bellcore) Testing Standards
  • GR-49-CORE for outdoor network interface devices
  • GR-63-CORE for network switching systems (NEBS)
  • GR-326-CORE for fiber optic connectors
  • GR-468-CORE for optoelectronic systems
  • GR-487-CORE for enclosures
  • GR-1209-CORE for passive fiber optic components
  • GR-1221-CORE for passive fiber optic component reliability

Latest News

• A new newsletter on testing
  Tuesday, January 17 2012

  We are launching a bi-monthly newsletter for people interested in environmental testing (and test chambers,too). Subscribe now, its easy, and every issue we give away an iPod Touch.

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• Brand new website dedicated to reliability testing info
  Friday, October 14 2011

  Test-Navi.com website published by ESPEC.

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