Combined Testing with Chambers
Temperature, Humidity, & Vibration Testing Software
The EDM (Engineering Data Management) software platform developed by Crystal Instruments includes Temperature, Humidity, and Vibration (THV) Testing software, which 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 EDM THV testing software synchronizes a chamber controller and any dedicated Crystal Instruments’ vibration test controller, which ranges from 2 to 512 channels. The two controllers can operate separately or in sync as one combined system controller to perform combined temperature, humidity, and vibration testing.
The EDM THV testing 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 operations, 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 (wirelessly 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 EDC (chamber controller software)
EDC monitors the test status when EDM or EDC is running control
Optional module of the chamber controller for 16 additional temperature or humidity channels
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
Enhanced Analysis Tools
Place cursors to measure delta X and delta Y
Peak, Valley, and custom markers
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
Automatically generated at test completion
Convenient Data Management
Easily back up all chamber configuration files
Import and view data files, configuration files, or all configurations without connected hardware
Test and Data managed by databases
Data files can be exported to various formats
Transfer tests between controller software
Access control by different accounts
Languages supported: English, Japanese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese
Flexible and Customizable display windows and tabs
Sending emails
Remote operation/communication using MQTT
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)
Viewing Test status on EDM Cloud
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
Integrate external devices into the THV test software via EDM Extensions, enabling centralized control of all devices needed for combined testing.
Random Vibration Control
Sine On Random
Resonance Search Track & Dwell (RSTD)
Shock Response Spectrum (SRS) Synthesis
Transient Time History (TTH)
Combined System Controller Software
Vibration Test Types
EDM Extensions is a set of features that integrate external devices with EDM VCS software or provides additional tools. An EDM Extension establishes the connection between EDM and an external device over a computer IO to allow EDM VCS software to operate the external device, display data from the external device, monitor the status of the external device, or automate a vibration test according to the data or the state of the external device.
The following list of external device types are supported by EDM Extensions.
CAN BUS: supports multiple channels
Video capture: supports video camera for real-time visual monitoring and recording
Temperature/Humidity chambers
Charge cabinet
Water chiller
Data acquisition systems
Temperature/Humidity/Pressure chambers
High voltage source
Low voltage source
