Combined Testing with Chambers

Temperature, Humidity, and Vibration Testing Software & Hardware

Designed and manufactured by Crystal Instruments, the Spider-101i controller is a key element of the Sentek Dynamics THV Series AGREE (Department of Defense Advisor Group on Reliability of Electronic Equipment) chambers. These chambers provide combined temperature, humidity, and vibration testing in addition to environmental and reliability testing for a wide variety of aerospace, automotive, medical, commercial, and independent test lab applications. Temperature, humidity, and vibration levels are controlled with high accuracy and are synchronized to simulate the actual physical environment products experience in the field.

The combined system controller consists of the Spider-101i temperature/humidity controller and any dedicated Crystal Instruments’ vibration test controller, which ranges from 2 to 512 channels. The two controllers can operate separately or synchronously as one combined system controller. Crystal Instruments EDM (Engineering Data Management) controller software accurately synchronizes two controllers to perform combined temperature, humidity, and vibration testing.

The combined EDM controller software provides one central location to set up parameters and a schedule between all three environments, with or without a connected controller. The powerful import and export features allow users to easily transfer test configurations between computers.

Users can execute and report vibration tests such as Random, Sine, Shock, SoR, RoR, etc. combined with various cycle settings of temperature and humidity. Test operation, saved file access, and report generation are all integrated into one user interface.

When EDM is operating a combined system controller, a PC or tablet connected to the same network (wireless or wired) with the controller can monitor the test status through the EDC chamber controller software interface.

When vibration testing is not required, the EDM or EDC software can perform temperature and/or humidity testing without participating in vibration testing.

Combined System Controller Features

Synchronized Temperature, Humidity, Vibration testing
Supports all vibration testing features plus temperature and humidity control
Can operate separately as a chamber controller and a vibration test controller
THV control only operates on EDM (THV controller software)
Temperature/Humidity control operates on either EDM or EDC (chamber controller software)
EDC monitors the test status when EDM or EDC is running control
Connectivity: Ethernet, USB x 4

Controller Software (EDM) Features

Wired and wireless connection to the controller
Configure a test at your desk and run it at the chamber
Controller mode and monitor mode (to the same controller, one software works in controller mode, the others work in the monitor mode)
Temperature and Humidity waveform display in Live Display and History View
- Live Display – display the latest data of a specific duration
- History View – display data of the entire test duration and zoom into any part while test is running
Historical data review – display data of the entire test duration and zoom into any part
Fault history and diagnosis with solutions provided
Report automatically generated at the end of each test
- Customizable contents
- Zoom into screenshots of temperature holding in test
- Supports US Letter and A4 formats
- Supports Word and PDF file types
Easily back up all chamber configuration files
Import and view data files, configuration files, or all configurations without connected hardware
Access control by different accounts
Transfer tests between controller software
Data managed by SQL server database
Test Management
Data file can be exported to various formats
Languages supported: English, Japanese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese
Flexible and Customizable display windows and tabs
Sending emails
Remote operation/communication using Socket Messages
Monitor and react to data from CAN bus
Runlog
Any measurement quantity that the vibration controller supports (e.g. acceleration, velocity, displacement, force, strain gage, etc)
Temperature/Humidity/Vibration combined input channel table
Temperature/Humidity/Vibration combined schedule
Temperature/Humidity/Vibration combined report and report template
Temperature/Humidity/Vibration combined display