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Testing to MIL-STD-810, Method 505? Look no further than NTS Tempe.
July 3, 2018Solar radiation can be very damaging to materials and equipment stored and used outdoors. Solar Radiation Testing to MIL-STD-810 Method 505 MIL-STD-810, Method 505 is designed to evaluate materials as they are exposed to the radiation and heating effects of...
What should I bring to the lab for my EMI test?
June 27, 2018This is one of the most common questions we get here at NTS EMC labs. It’s important to know what you need in advance to ensure that your test session is productive. You should try to arrive for a test...
Telecommunications Equipment Testing and Certifications
April 18, 2018Telecommunications equipment deployed in Central Office locations within the telephone network must be tested and certified for safety. A failure of one product in one rack must be contained to ensure it does not adversely affect the entire Central Office....
NTS offers CAD/FEA Modeling for Direct and Indirect Effects Lightning, Reducing Test Costs and Time
May 24, 2016The NTS Lightning Technologies laboratory in Pittsfield, MA is now offering finite element analysis, allowing the performance of complex simulations that accurately model the interaction of lightning with a variety of aircraft and avionics components for our customers. This service...
How can I relate the results of MIL-STD-810 salt fog testing to the life time of my product?
April 20, 2016This is a very common question that we get asked quite often and unfortunately there is no correlation between what the product sees in the salt fog chamber to what it will experience out in the field. In order to...
Is there a preferred sequence for EMI, EMC Tests?
April 5, 2016One of the questions we get asked often is about order of EMI/EMC testing. Neither MIL-STD-461 nor RTCA/DO-160 specify the order of test performance. Leaving aside the issue of Safety of Flight tests for aircraft (which typically must be performed...
NTS Quick Guide to Reverberation Testing
March 24, 2016A reverberation chamber (mode tuned/mode stirred chamber) is a shielded enclosure or resonant cavity for RF testing which is statistically isotropic, random polarity, having RF uniformity within specified limits. Typically it has a paddle (or tuner) which stirs up the...
MIL-STD-461G Released
February 3, 2016The G revision of the MIL-STD-461 standard was released in December 2015 and is available here. NTS’s Jeffrey Viel’s wrote an article for InCompliance Magazine reviewing the proposed changes which was published back in August 2015. These changes have carried...
The Benefits of Pre-Compliance EMC Testing
November 20, 2015One of the biggest product development challenges today is ensuring electromagnetic interference is optimally controlled. With proper electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) testing and design, you can ensure the correct operation of various devices in the same electromagnetic environment. EMC is achieved...
Using Programmable Logic Controllers for Test Automation and Process Control
July 28, 2015Programmable Logic Controllers, or PLC’s, are basically a small computer with usable inputs and outputs. A PLC can be used to replace a set of relays, both time delay and regular, using counters and timers with input filtering and control....