Remote Control

Automotive and electrical components that need be thermal-cycled come in many shapes and sizes, as do test chambers. But one size definitely does not fit all. Just try to force your half-buck fixture into your 8ft3 chamber or explain to management why a walk-in chamber is being used to test four airbag modules. While the ideal situation is to have a dedicated environmental chamber designed specifically to test a component, this setup is not always economically or physically feasible. Flexibility is the reason many customers build an insulated enclosure, or hood, around their test article and use a Remote Conditioner (RC) to condition the Device Under Test (DUT). In this way a single environmental chamber can supply conditioned air to hoods built around various size components or processes. For increased flexibility, RC chambers also provide an internal test that allows an RC to be used as a dual-purpose test chamber - it can be used as a remote conditioner or stand alone temperature/humidity chamber.