Temperature Cycling Testing
Thermal cycling testing
Discover our cycling capabilities and climatic testing service
At Withnell Sensors, we offer thermal cycling testing, also referred to as temperature cycling. This service recreates environmental conditions within our specialist chambers. thermal cycling testing allows customers to utilise our service to test how products and materials will cope if they encounter extreme working environments.
The information gathered from the climatic testing and temperature cycling tests allows you to find areas of improvement for your products or assess their viability.
We offer both constant climatic testing and temperature cycling testing on your products and materials.
Our unique thermal cycling testing services
Temperature cycling at Withnell Sensors
Using in-house market-leading Kambic equipment, temperature and humidity conditions can be mimicked to an extremely precise degree. We pride ourselves on offering incredibly precise climatic testing with temperature cycling conducted by our highly knowledgeable Engineers and lab staff.
We can test over a temperature range of – 40 to + 180°C and 10 to 95% humidity. Overall temperature stability is approximately ±0.5°C with a temperature uniformity of less than 1.5°C, ensuring highly precise conditions for your thermal cycling testing.
The internal size of our chamber is 600 x 610 x 510mm with an 80kg maximum weight capacity. Racking inside the chamber allows us to test multiple items at once or the removal of shelving can permit testing for larger items.
Constant or temperature cycle tests
80kg max load
–40 to + 180°C test range
Temperature stability 0.5°C
Climatic Testing made simple
Discover Withnell Sensors' temperature cycling process
Climatic testing is useful for evaluating the performance of composites, electronic, plastic and metal products in conditions, through constant climates or temperature cycling with fluctuating temperatures and humid environments.
High temperature and humidity can often contribute to or completely cause product failures such as corrosion, wear, and mould.
The level of moisture penetration in test materials may lead to swelling and an array of issues may affect the functionality of the test material leading it to be compromised or unfit for the intended use.
These forms of climatic testing may also be referred to as a ‘damp heat test’ or ‘85/85 test’ (the most typically tested conditions).
During these climatic tests, samples undergo temperature cycling or 'stress cycling' for periods of 100, 500 or 1000 hours or more with differing temperature set points and humidity levels from 10 to 98%RH. For longer test durations, samples may be removed from the humidity test chamber for interim electrical testing and inspection at intervals requested by the customer.