Temperature extremes can significantly alter the mechanical and electrical properties of a component, such as brittleness of device, electrical conductivity and frequencies. Such extremes can lead to early life failure of electrical systems and unreliable operations.

For industries operating in the High Reliability sectors such as Defence, Aerospace, Oil & Gas many electrical components while inexpensive to purchase, may be expensive to replace as the systems they are applied on are remote and the downtime expensive. 

The Retronix Test Temperature system determines how ICs would cope with extreme temperatures. The system simulates:

• Temperature Range: -55^oc to +125^oc
• Temperature Accuracy: ± 0.1^oc to ± 0.6^oc
• Rate of change: According to IEC60068-3-5
• 5.3^oc/min Average Heating in Empty Chamber
• 4.2^oc/min Average Cooling in Empty Chamber

The report provided by Retronix contains physical component specifications, the length of true measurement and the overall result of the temperature test.