CLI 510 - Temperature, Altitude, Humidity Testing
Overview of content
History of climatics testing
Client organization’s environmental test requirements
Military environmental test standards
- MIL-Std-810C as example of “cookbook” documents
- MIL-Std-810X as example in which “tailoring” is encouraged
Commercial environmental test standards resemble “cookbooks”
Pretest documentation
- Test plan – differs from procedure – needed content – sample test plan
- Test procedure
- Why needed?
- Content – importance of each part
- How to write
- Outline of sample test procedure
Temperature testing
- Test requirements
- High temperatures
- Storage or non-operating
- Source of test requirements
- What test can reveal
- Operating
- Source of test requirements
- What test can reveal
- Appropriate operation during exposure to test environment; pitfalls
- Low temperatures – repeat of above subtopics
- Test equipment
- Chambers – their heating, cooling and control
- Instrumentation: sensors, readouts, recording
- Setting up for a typical test
- Preparing a typical test item to be tested
- Conducting the actual test
- Recording of data
- Data reduction
- Summary and optional quiz
Altitude testing – subtopics similar to temperature testing
Humidity testing - subtopics similar to temperature testing
Reporting on the test
- Who will use the information?
- Content
- Format – presenting data
Summarizing the course
Optional final quiz
Award of certificates
