Environment Associates Inc.
Environment Associates offers a variety of environmental testing solutions for qualification and reliability test needs. With over 55 years in operation, WE KNOW TESTING. Our testing division can precisely simulate and control environments to test products ranging from military connectors, and life-supporting medical equipment to commercial and military aircraft instrumentation and satellite components. Using state of the art equipment, our technicians have the experience and knowledge to induce the exact test conditions you need
- (818) 709-0568
- bob@eatest.com
- joshb@eatest.com
- 9604 Variel Avenue
Chatsworth, CA 91311
United States of America
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IP and NEMA Ingress Testing
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Environment Associates offers dust, water and solid ingress protection testing to multiple specifications including EN/IEC 60529 and NEMA 250 for electronics enclosures, SAE standards for automotive components, RTCA DO-160 for commercial aircraft and various MIL standards for associated military hardware.
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Pyroshock Testing
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The purpose of Pyroshock (pyrotechnic shock) testing is to simulate the high-frequency, high-magnitude shock pulse experienced by an explosive event (such as an impact on a military tank or an explosive deployment charge). Pyroshock testing can expose failures in electronic components that are sensitive to high-frequency pyroshock energy. Common failures include: relay and crystal oscillator chatter, detachment of larger components from the circuit board, hard failures of small circuit components, and the dislodging of contaminants, which cause short circuits. Severe damage to crucial components used in space or in the military can produce critical results, such as loss of life, due to malfunction.
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Temperature & Humidity Testing
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Environment Associates is outfitted with multiple chambers to suit all types of temperature and humidity testing needs, including: table-top, standard-reaching, fixed or portable walk-in chambers, and if needed, drive-in chambers. All Environment Associates test chambers are equipped with separate data-acquisition equipment for temperature and humidity monitoring. Our temperature and humidity chambers can be readily equipped with specialized data acquisition to digitally record chamber conditions and the test article at multiple data points. Many of our temperature and humidity chambers are equipped with high-performance, maximum-size compressors to produce superior ramp rates equal to or greater than 15°C per minute.
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Accelerated Aging Testing
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Accelerated aging is a testing method used to estimate the useful lifespan of a product when actual lifespan data is unavailable. This occurs with products that have not existed long enough to have gone through their useful lifespan: for example, a new type of car engine or a new polymer for replacement joints or medical products and packaging.
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Vibration Testing
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As specialists in dynamic testing, we provide equipment capable of exerting a 6,000 to 40,000 pound force with the capacity to perform closed-loop control from a single input to multiple channel inputs (from 2 to 32) with averaging or notched channel control. Vibration control systems can be programmed for real time monitoring, scheduled for length of time, or level scaled by dB or percentage, or scaled at various durations at different acceleration levels.
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Contaminating Fluid Testing
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Products manufactured using plastics, coated and painted surfaces, seals or other "A" surface materials can come in contact with spilled chemicals, sweat, cleaners, lubricants and fuels that can be a potential stress source for a product. These stress sources can cause discoloration, deterioration and de-lamination failures. We can create a list of fluids and/or follow TRCA, DO-160, MIL-STD-810 and ASTM guidelines for a list of products that should be used to test your part's compatibility.
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Thermal Vacuum Testing
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When you want to test your product for extreme space conditions, that include temperatures from 155°C to -175°C at space vacuum altitudes, Environment Associates is your solution. Using this test to determine the unique failures of space mechanisms that orbit the earth is key in improving system reliability. Thermal vacuum testing is similar to thermal cycling but adds deep space vacuums for detecting corona/arcing and intermittence and increases a product’s out-gassing. The key failure modes found during this test are: 1) electrical iIntermittence, 2) thermal control issues, 3) arcing, 4) corona, 5) material out-gassing, and more, to determine a product’s flight-worthiness for workmanship and processing issues.
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