Purge system and method for accelerating environmental stress tests

Abstract

A method of actively transporting atmosphere, including gases and other fluids, to and from an inner compartment of a sealed system. The purged atmosphere is replaced with another atmosphere having target characteristics. A vacuum purge system pulls atmosphere from the sealed system, while a pressure-based system pushes atmosphere into the sealed system. Humidity corrosion tests are accelerated over prior methods because purged atmosphere is actively transported out of the sealed system and characteristic atmosphere is actively transported into the sealed system.

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