6636 - Environmental Chambers and Related Equipment

Includes: Chambers; Wind Tunnels; Enclosures specifically designed to simulate an environmental condition; Weatherometers; Fadeometers; Specially designed equipment and components exclusively related to environmental chambers.

Excludes: General purpose prefabricated buildings, chambers, panels, and components (FSC 5410); Controlled Environmental Conditioning Kits and Sets (FSC 4240); Baths (FSC 4510); Ovens (FSC 7310); Kilns (FSC 3630); Radiosonde Baseline Check Sets (FSC 6660); Divers Recompression Chambers (FSC 4220); Altitude Training Decompression Chambers (FSC 6930); and Chambers used as training devices (FSC 6930); Checkout and Test Equipment (FSC 6625); Chemical Analysis Instruments (FSC 6630); Electrical and Electronic Properties Measuring and Testing Instruments (FSC 6625); and Meteorological Instruments (FSC 6660).

Notes: Note This class includes only those environmental chambers used exclusively to perform controlled tests, under simulated conditions, to determine physical damage and/or changes in operating characteristics for equipments and components such as Humidity; Immersion; Moisture; Altitude; Explosion; Thermal Shock; Sand and Dust; Flammability; Seal. Environmental chambers included in this class provide data regarding service life and behavior of various items equivalent to actual service conditions existing in the field.