Greetings,
Once again, I would like to express my appreciation for this forum and
all those who keep it going.
We manufacture a piece of laboratory equipment that has a control unit
and a furnace for burning samples and analyzing the gases to determine
the compounds in the sample. The control unit and furnace units are in
separate enclosures.
In IEC 1010 part 2, for equipment for heating of materials, Sec 6.8.2
allows that equipment for which a drying period is specified, shall
not be subjected to humidity preconditioning.
It appears that we just specify a drying out period in the manual if
the equipment has been exposed to humid conditions. This makes sense
to me because the equipment will not be operated in such a high humid
condition.
My question is, can this same type of approach be taken with both the
furnace and control unit? If so, than can it be applied to other lab
equipment?
My real problem is trying to justify a $30k - $50k thermal/humidity
test chamber, when I do not see that this type of test will improve
the safety of our type of equipment.
Thank you for your assistance.
Ray Russell
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