BUILDING. Thermostatic Baths

Often, it is interesting to see the degree of resistance of materials to liquids such as water, oil or other substances. This type of testing is usually done at different temperatures in thermostatic baths.

The options include:

 •       Immersion baths with water

 •       Immersion baths with glycoled  water or glycol. 

 •       Immersion baths with 2, 4 or 8 compartments

BT Series. Thermostatic Bath

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BUILDING. Freeze- thaw chamber

Building materials installed outdoors, must endure for years strong climate action: rain, ice, sun, wind, etc. In winter, they continue to experience large temperature changes in the day / night cycle, moisture absorption during the day and freezing at night, causing significant degradation of the material.

With freeze-thaw chambers, manufacturers of building materials can optimize their products in the laboratory, and as a result can be minimized or eliminated the damage.

Standards like: UNE-EN ISO 10545, UNE 67048, UNE 22174, etc. Are used in these elements.

CHD. Freeze-Thaw chamber with thermostatic bath

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BUILDING. Freeze-thaw chamber over TILES.

All products that We met at the day, must be tested against weather conditions, including elements that happen to us unnoticed as our roof shingles. These building elements have to be tested to simulated weather conditions which will face over its lifetime.

DYCOMETAL, has supplied climatic chambers for testing resistance to freeze-thaw  on tiles, as shown in the video shown below, recorded by the "MADE IN SPAIN" RTVE program.

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CHD Series- Freeze-Thaw chamber

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BIOTECHNOLOGY. Plants Growth Chambers

In the R&D market, the climatic chamber has an important application inside of the botanic sector, thanks to the Plants Growth Chambers and seeds germination chamber.

These chambers present the optimal conditions in humidity, temperature and solar radiation, to generate the optimal atmosphere for the growing of the plants. It’s possible to control other variables like gases (CO2, CO, etc).

The dimensions of the chamber can change from the smaller laboratory until the walk-in chambers, where is possible to do extensive cultives.

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PHARMACEUTICAL. Light Degradation test chamber

The Pharmaceutical market has developed a test to control the quality of the product against exposure to the light, photo-stability. This kind of test is done inside of chamber with photo-lighting system with different kind of radiations.

The function of this chamber is study the product deterioration , exposed during a specific time to a white-light and near UV light.

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Cyclical corrosión Test, Volvo STD1027, 1375

One of the hardest cyclical corrosión test in the automotive industry is VOLVO STD 2037, 1375, referring to the corrosión test over coatings in automotive pieces.

The sample will be submitted under a changing climate, which will have 3 different cycles, combined with another 3 salt spray methods. The test conditions will change, depending of the method, between 60-90% R.H. and temperatura conditions of 45ºC in different stages of the cycle, and along the steps to follow.

Uno de los ensayos de corrosión cíclica más exigentes en la industria del automóvil es la normativa de Volvo STD1027, 1375, referente al ensayo de corrosión sobre recubrimientos sobre piezas de automóvil.

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Temperature and Climatic chamber for Batteries

The boom in lithium-ion batteries as power source for electric cars, telephone systems, tablets, etc. has greatly increased the use of such batteries, being essential the proper operation under adverse temperatures and humidity conditions. The validation of such batteries is performed in climatic chambers.

It must to be considered in these tests the failure battery risk, so the climatic chamber and the laboratory take in consider some safety elements for fire or explosion

Some elements included in the chamber are:

·         Additional sensors over the samples

·         Interior elements sparkproof

·         Pressure relief for the test chamber

·         Reinforced door and chamber

·         H2 and  CO2 detectors

·         Fire detection and extintion system

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BURN-IN tests chambers

The actual demand in the electronic market has required of a control test system to reduce the “infant mortality” and reduce guarantee costs. These type of simulation is done by the Burn-in tests.

Burn-in chambers do the accelerated fatigue temperature tests, simulating real conditions which equipment will be submitted in its operation in different temperatura conditions

These test also allow study individual behavior of components, to determine the fail in electronic components mounted, do fiability test and, in general, establish a serious quality control for impressed circuits cards, electronic boards, integrated circuits, relés and electronic motors.

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Temperature Test chamber

Temperature tests are done in order to simulate the accelerated thermal fatigue with controlled cooling and heating.

It is necessary to use temperature chamber to do these tests. These chambers simulate the temperature conditions along the life of the elements to be tested. The volumes vary from the smallest benchtop chambers to the biggest modular chambers or walk-in chambers.

These chambers have different application, and are used in any kind of sector where the sample will resist severe temperature changes: automotive, aeronautical, electronic, plastics, etc..

·       Studies involving deterioration of the structure of the sample or a change in physical properties due to temperature changes.

·       Accelerated Freeze/thawing tests.

·       surface adhesion assays

Some standards: DIN EN 60068, DIN 40046, IEC 68-2-14Nb, MIL-STD 312A, MIL-STD 810D, MIL-STD 883B, etc.

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CLIMATIC WALK-IN chambers

Climatic test reproduce the climatic conditions in temperature and humidity. It’s necessary, do these tests in the validation plan of a new product or over its production, to evaluate equipment behavior, in its climatic use conditions, and prevent malfunctions in the market. Climatic chambers simulate humidity and temperature conditions that will affect to the product along its lifetime

Sometimes the sample to be tested has big dimensions or big weight or we have to introduce a lot of number of samples. Then, the best solution to do the test are Walk-in chambers.

Walk-in chambers are manufactured by insulated pre- manufactured panels. These panels are connected together making structures from 700 liters to more than 300.000 liters. The standard walk-in chambers has the limitation of the temperatura range, they only have ranges from -70ºC to +85ºC; and a relative humidity from 20 to 98% R.H.

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DRIVE-IN chambers

Climatic test reproduce the climatic conditions in temperature and humidity, to which the equipment or materials will be subjected during operation, transport or storage.

When we have to test samples with big dimensions and big weight, like complete vehicle; it’s not posible to test these samples in a estándar chamber. It is necessary to use modular climatic chambers like DRIVE-IN chambers.

DRIVE-IN chambers are a modification of the Walk-in chambers, where the customer can test cars, bus, trucks or also trains.

These chambers can simulate any kind of environmental conditions: temperatura, humidity, solar radiation, salt spray, dust, rain,…

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Air forced heating oven (AFA Series)

Inside of environmental tests, heating ovens are used to condition the samples to a specific positive temperatura, drying or the accelerated aging of the samples.

Tempertaure range of the oven are from room temperatur plus 10ºC, to +300ºC or 400ºC, and the volumes go from the little  to more than 3000 liters.

Some standards which use this type of systems are: DIN 12 880, DIN 40046, DIN 58 945, IEC 68-2-2, MIL-STD 810D, MIL-STD 883, MIL-STD 883C, etc.,

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Stress Screening Chamber, CCK ESS Series

The environmental tests are more exigent in temperature change rates. One of the most common test are the accelerated stress tests or Stress Screening (ESS); during these tests the sample to be tested must to endure high temperature change rates cooling and heating.

These temperature change rates can be varied between 5 and 12ºC/min. it submit the samples to high stress degree, so it can verify if exist some kind of defect in the samples guaranteeing the quality of the samples, and avoiding returns of samples during the guarantee period.

Some standards:

·  Thermal cycles: IEC 60068-2-14, test Nb, IEC 60721-4, DIN 40046, part 14- test Nb,etc

·  Heating: IEC 60068-2-2, test B, IEC 60721-4, DIN 40046, part 4, test B, DIN 72300-4, etc.

·  Cooling: IEC 60068-2-1, test A, IEC 60721-4, DIN 40046, part 3, test A, DIN 72300-4, etc

·  Alternative climate: IEC 60068-2-30, test Db, Var.1, IEC 60068-2-30, test Db, Var.2, IEC 60068-2-38, IEC 60068-2-4, test D, IEC 60721-4, etc.

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Dust test chamber, CP- Series

Dust test is done over different components to evaluate the IP degree protection in the dust test chambers.

The samples that are susceptible to this kind of test use to be: systems of street lighting, traffic lights, lighting and signal elements in automotion, electric and electronic elements of acoustic or lighting safety, electric panels, tight electric boxes, catadioptics, etc

Test Requirements - Legal Regulations Bibliography:

-       ASTM C 150-56 type I 

-       ASTM C 150-84

-       UNE 20-324-93/EN 60529:1993

-       SAE J575 june 92

-       BLS 30 EE-101

-       EN-60598-1:1997

-       DIN 40046 (pages 46, 47 y 48)

-       MIL-STD 202 (method 110A)

-       MIL-STD 810C (method 510.1)

-       BS 2011 (part 2.1 test L)

-    RENAULT 36-05-010

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