Environmental Test Chambers for Salt Spray Testing
Corrosion is a natural process that impacts product longevity. It’s triggered by factors such as moisture, temperature fluctuations, acidity, and salt—conditions that exist in various environments. While corrosion can't be fully prevented, it can be controlled with effective product design and comprehensive testing.
Industries rely on salt spray or also known as salt fog chambers to assess a product's resistance to corrosion. These chambers help engineers create more durable products by simulating corrosive conditions, enabling them to forecast the lifespan and performance of their designs.
Associated Environmental Systems (AES) manufactures salt spray test chambers for businesses ranging from electronics to the automotive industry. The MX Series offers a unique set of features, including superior observation capabilities. Completely self-contained, the MX Series salt spray chambers enable test items to be subjected to a corrosive environment without introducing other contaminants into the test area—the DUT visible from almost any angle.
What is the Price of a Salt Spray Chamber?
The price of a salt spray chamber varies depending on a number of factors, including size and performance. Small chambers are less expensive than larger ones. The same is true for chambers designed for steady-state, or stability testing compared to cycling.
A good rule of thumb is that a quality, standard humidity chamber costs between $17,000 and $30,000. This base price often increases with customizations and optional features (such as dry air purges or recirculating desiccant air dryers). Work with a manufacturer to build a humidity chamber that fits your needs.
MX Series Corrosion Chambers
The MX Series is completely self-contained; the MX Series salt spray chambers enable test items to be subjected to a corrosive environment without introducing other contaminants into the test area, making the DUT visible from almost any angle. This corrosion-mimicking process is observable, again, through 360-degree high-quality Lucite®️ plexiglass.
To ensure temperature uniformity in the test workspace, chambers in the MX Series use two separate RTD sensors.
Tower Temperature: 45.5°C (114°F).
Chamber Temperature: 35°C (95°F).
Available Volumes: 3.38, 8, 15.63 cu ft.
Remote Monitoring with AESONE CONNECT®
AES MX Series chambers come standard with AESONE CONNECT®, a combination of hardware and software solution that enables you to monitor tests remotely. You can view real-time and historical data, create, edit, save, and move between test profiles from anywhere you can access a web browser.
Watching from a full-screen monitor, AESONE CONNECT® empowers you to design and rearrange tests with visually intuitive plot lines, clear data intervals, and colorful graphs. Furthermore, sharing a chamber is not a security problem. The administrator controls multiple login authentication methods and user-access permission levels and can establish expiration dates for each user.
AESONE XCHANGE is hardware internal to the chamber that increases your functionality:
- Connects the test chamber controller to your network for increased accessibility
- On-board multi-year data logging
AESONE CONSOLE gives you the power to
- Remote monitor and operate test chambers
- Create web-based test profiles
- View current data and historical data visually
- Secure multi-level user access
Salt Spray Test Chamber Resources & FAQs
Associated Environmental Systems not only manufactures top-of-the-line salt spray test chambers customized to your needs but also provides resources to support your testing and keep you updated on the latest industry developments.
What are Salt Spray Chambers?
A salt spray chamber creates a highly corrosive environment to test the long-term effects of salt on objects and materials. Read More
What are Salt Spray Chambers used for?
Salt spray test chambers enable users to assess how resistant their products, components, or materials are to corrosion by isolating devices under test in a salt mist or fog over a specified amount of time. Read more
Salt Spray Chamber Start-up and Operating Procedures
Starting up and operating your salt spray test chamber is easy with the help of this article. Read more
Troubleshooting: Common Salt Spray Chamber Questions
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