Upgrades and retrofits for HALT/HASS chambers

Which chambers we upgrade

Hanse upgrades and retrofits HALT/HASS chambers from these makers:

• Hanse
• Qualmark
• Screening Systems
• Thermotron

On a Hanse chamber, an upgrade is part of supporting every chamber Hanse has built: see support for every Hanse chamber.

A modern interface for an older chamber

A controls upgrade gives an older chamber the same browser-based control as a new Hanse chamber. ChamberCore, Hanse’s control software, runs on the chamber; operators open a web browser on the floor, at a desk or across the lab, with nothing to install on their computers. The chamber is easy to reach wherever it sits in your facility.

ChamberCore talks to the chamber’s controller rather than replacing it. If the chamber already has a Watlow F4T, F4D or F4S, a Future Design MCT-B or a Tidal Engineering Synergy controller, ChamberCore works with it as it is; otherwise the upgrade fits a Watlow F4T. It runs HALT/HASS, thermal cycling, humidity and burn-in tests, on a Hanse chamber or on another maker’s.

What the upgrade adds:

• ChamberControl, profiles and live control: build and edit test profiles in the browser with live graphing, or import the profiles already on your controller; drive setpoints live, with air and product (cascade) control; deviation and limit alarms with an acknowledgment workflow and full history; heat, cool, vibration, humidity, purge and fans follow the running test step by step.
• Logging that is always on: chamber data records continuously from start-up, so a forgotten “start logging” click can never cost you a test.
• ChamberDAQ: product thermocouples and voltage channels on the same timeline as the chamber’s setpoint and process value, with burst capture around transitions and annotations on the trace.
• ChamberFFT: live GRMS, power spectral density, shock response spectrum and fatigue damage spectrum from accelerometers on the table.
• ChamberReport: test reports built from templates, with charts, photos, pass/fail criteria checked against the logged data, and electronic signatures. Data exports to CSV, Excel and PDF.
• ChamberHub: every chamber in the lab on one screen, with one alarm queue, fleet-wide exports, maintenance timers and remote control.

These screenshots are from the ChamberCore demo, which runs a simulated chamber. ChamberCore has a light and a dark theme.

Every action goes into an audit trail that cannot be altered, with the operator’s name on it, and the platform is built for FDA 21 CFR Part 11: electronic signatures, checksum-chained data and password policies. Alerts go out by email and in the browser when an alarm trips, a controller stops responding, a profile finishes or maintenance comes due.

The specification sheet, the manual and a live demo are on chambercore.app.

Retrofit or replace?

A HALT/HASS chamber is a fifteen-to-twenty-year asset. When what is obsolete or limiting is the controller, the vibrators or the LN2 valve, an upgrade replaces those parts and keeps the chamber, table and LN2 piping you already have. When the chamber itself no longer fits, because the table is too small for your products or you need a temperature range or vibration level it was not built for, a new chamber is the better answer, and the buyer’s guide walks through sizing one. Send us the make, model and serial number, and we can help you determine which applies.

Vacuum-jacketed LN2 valves, new and retrofitted

Hanse fits the same vacuum-jacketed proportional LN2 valves to new chambers and in retrofits.