Ⅰ.Introduction:

Test Principle

The ultraviolet rays of sunlight are the main factor who damage weathering resistance of most materials. We use UV lamps to simulate the short wave part of sunlight, it produce few visible lights and infrared lights. According to different testing requirements, we choose different wavelength UV lamps, this is because each type UV lamps produce different irradiance energy and wavelength. Generally speaking, UV lamps can be divided into UVA and UVB.

 Different types fluorescent UV lamps are used in different fields, for example: 

① UVA-340 Lamp: UVA-340 Lamp can highly simulate short-wave ultraviolet light of sunlight, the wavelength range is from 365 nm to 295 nm. 
② UVA 351 Lamp: Simulates UV sunlight which has passed through the windows. It is excellent for testing materials aging process indoor.  
③ UVB 313 Lamp: UVB-313 lamp emits stronger shortwave ultraviolet light compared with the ultraviolet rays on Earth, thus can accelerate material aging process. However, this lamp may cause some unrealistic material damage. It is mainly used in quality control, research and development, and the test of the materials with strong weather resistance.

XD-21-855 & 856 UV Light Accelerated Aging Test Chamber （hereinafter referred as XD-UV）adopts fluorescent UV lamp as the light source. Its inner temperature and humidity can be properly controlled to obtain the periodic condensation on the sample for fully evaluating the damaged factor caused by sunlight, moisture and temperature (materials aging phenomenon includes fading, disluster, intensity reduction, cracking, flaking, chalking, and oxidation).  Fluorescent UV light can emulate the effect of sunshine, while condensation and water spray system can emulate the effects of rain and dew. During the test, radiation energy and temperature are controllable. A typical test cycle generally carries out under strong irradiation of UV light or in the dark and wet condensation period with 100% relative humidity. These tests generally applied in the fields of paint and coatings, automotive industry, plastic, wood, glue, etc…

Test Principle
 

Ⅱ. Main Technical Parameters: 

Ⅲ. Standard：

◆ ISO 16474-1 《Paints and varnishes -- Methods of exposure to laboratory light sources -- Part 1: General guidance》

◆ ISO 16474-3 《Paints and varnishes — Methods of exposure to laboratory light sources — Part 3: Fluorescent UV lamps》

◆ ISO 11507《Paints and varnished--Exposure of coatings to artificial weathering- Exposure to fluorescent UV lamps and water》

◆ ISO 4892-1《 Plastics-Methods of exposure to laboratory light sources-Part 1: General Guidance》

◆ ISO 4892-3《 Methods of exposure to laboratory light sources-Part 3: Fluorescent UV lamps》

◆ ASTM D 4587《Standard Practice for Fluorescent UV-Condensation Exposures of Paint and Related Coatings》

◆ ASTM D 4329《Standard Practice S for Fluorescent UV Exposure of Plastic》

◆ ASTM G-151《Standard Practice for Exposing Nonmetallic Materials in Accelerated Test Devices that use laboratory light sources》

◆ ASTM G-154《Standard Practice for Operating Fluorescent Light Apparatus for UV Exposure of Non-Metallic Materials》

◆ BS 2782:Part5, 《Method 540B (Methods of Exposure to Lab Light Sources) 》

◆ SAE J2020《Accelerated Exposure of Automotive Exterior Malts Using a Fluorescent UV/Condensation Apparatus》

◆ JIS D 0205《Test Method of Weather-ability for Automotive Parts》

Ⅳ. Features：

Original UVA or UVB lamps from America, ensure the comparability of testing results.

All XD-UV machines use fluorescent UV lamps produced by Amercian as testing light source, comparing with other type lamps （including Xenon Lamps）, UV lamps are more stable. Its spectrum power distribution won’t change as the lamps weathering, even to 6,000 hours. Thus more repeatable testing results can be achieved easily, and decrease changing lamps times and reduce the running cost..
Furthermore, these lamps from Amercian are produced on the base of more than 40 years’ experience and fluorescent technology. It is designed specially and tested with most serious quality control.

With Original Intellectual Property Rights and Initiated in China,Our ballast can extend the lamp lift to 6,000 hours, save use-cost greatly for users.

Original UV Lamps from America                                Four sensors montior BUV irradiance

Irradiance can be controlled automatically（with the closed-loop system, the value of irradiance is more precise and steady.

The superiority of XD-21-856 UV Light Accelerated Aging Test Chamber is that it can be controlled and adjusted automatically during testing process. As it is well known, the energy in testing process is the main factor in polymer materials aging. In order to ensure reproducibility and comparability of testing results, the UV energy is a very important technical indicator. We adopt the principles which similar with Sun- eye automatically monitor the testing process throughout the energy value, when the lamp energy is less than the expected value, the system can automatically monitor the difference and automatically replenish energy immediately.

Irradiance can be calibrated automatically （Only for XD-21-856）

As any other lamps, UV lamps energy of XD-UV also decreases as time increase. The control system would compensate it automatically through strengthening the voltage of lamps.  But as the using time become longer and longer, the energy of lamps decrease continuously. For some high set point of irradiance, XD-UV couldn’t keep this irradiance any longer, and now the system of XD-UV would reminder failure “the error of irradiance is too large” and shut off the machine. Now, the operator should calibrate the XD-UV by standard calibration radiometer. If machine still can’t get the set point after calibrating, the user should replace the two pcs lamps corresponding to the relative sensor and calibrate again.

XD-UV is calibrated by XD Calibration Radiometer which is produced by our company. User can use one radiometer to calibrate some BUV, radiometer can test fluorescent UV lamps. It is not only used to calibrate the UVA lamps , but also to do UVB lamps. For UVB lamps,

Calibration Radiometer is made up of radiometer and sensor (see picture as below)：

                                           Calibration Radiometer                                                  XD-UV Calibration Window

The sensor of XD-21-8118 calibration radiometer is very sensitive to ultraviolet rays, but don’t have any action to visible light, and just have a little response for infrared light even can be ignored. So other rays can’t bring any influence for this radiometer.

Water Spray and Condensation function

Water spray

For some applications, the water spray can simulate end-use environmental conditions better. Water spray can effectively simulate heat shock or mechanical erosion caused by dramatic temperature changes or rain. In some practical application conditions, such as a sudden brash in a sunshine day, can bring heat shock because the temperature of the material changes drastically.  This heat shock severely tests the properties of many materials. XD-UV water spray can simulate this heat shock and / or stress corrosion.

XD-UV spray system design with 12 nozzles, each side has 6 pieces in the test chamber. Spray system can run a few minutes and then shut down. This transitory water spray can cool the samples quickly, creating heat shock conditions.

Condensation

In many outdoor environments, materials are placed in wet condition for over 12 hours each day. Studies have shown that the main factor of this wet condition outdoor is caused by dew, not rain. XD-UV simulates the outdoor moisture erosion through the unique condensation capabilities. In the condensation cycle during the test, water on the bottom of the chamber is heated to obtain superheated steam filling the test chamber. Hot steam makes the chamber maintain 100% relative humidity, and maintain a relatively high temperature.  Sample was fixed on the wall of test chamber. Thus the sample surface is exposed to the ambient air of test chamber. The other side of the sample is exposed to the natural environment which has a cooling effect, bringing internal and external surfaces of the sample with temperature difference, and the temperature difference leads to the test surfaces always have drips caused by condensation process.

Control the temperature automatically with high precision Pt 100 temperature sensor of black panel.

In each cycle, the temperature can be controlled at a set value. At the same time, the black panel thermometer can monitor the temperature. Temperature increase can accelerate the aging process, and the temperature control for reproducibility of the test is also very important.

XD-UV main Window                                                                       XD-UV Set Test Program Window

XD-UV Import Data Window

Format of Import Data

Real-time collect and store data, all testing data can be converted EXCEL format automatically and be saved.

There is a USB interface at the XD-UV back, through this interface, operator can export all running parameterts at any period by a U disk. It’s convenient for operator to search and do statistics for XD-UV, and achieve the real unattended running.

Come with TCP/IP Ethernet interface, the user can tele-control XD-UV through TCP/IP internet.    

With this interface, operator only need to set reasonable IP address, then can monitor XD-UV working status at any place. Even operator is not in his laboratory, he still can run and maintain XD-UV. Moreover, this function is also convenient for us to help our customers to slove all problems and do some necessary after service. Settle completely user's troubles back at home.

Come with a booster pump, even the user’s external water pressure is not enough, XD-UV still can work normally with this booster pump.

Alarm and protection functions: Water shortage，over-temperature of black panel, large deviation of irradiance between setting value with showing value.

Ⅴ. Configuration list：

Ⅵ. Optional parts ordering information：

Ⅶ. Documents: