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Q-Lab Testers Are Now Available in 17 Languages
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Q-Lab is pleased to announce that all QUV, Q-SUN, and Q-FOG weathering and corrosion testers with the Gen 4 Touchscreen Displays can now be operated in 17 different languages. This represents a major expansion of Q-Lab's industry-leading on-screen la...
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Testing Your Product’s Durability Can Make you Feel Free as a Bird!
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Plastics, coatings, and other materials used outdoors are exposed to harmful UV light, high temperatures, and water in the form of dew and rain, which can cause a variety of physical and chemical degradation modes.One of the most common types of prod...
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QUV Accelerated Weathering Tester Featured in the Testing of Solar Reflective Shingles.
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A recent episode of This Old House, an American TV series that highlights do-it-yourself home improvement tasks, examined the properties of Solar Reflective Asphalt Shingles. Part of the qualification for these shingles included a QUV accelerated wea...
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Why Is It Important to Reposition Specimens?
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Weathering test standards often include guidance on repositioning of test specimens. This is the practice of moving specimens to different locations within a test chamber over the course of a test. Q-Lab considers specimen repositioning a best practi...
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How many Langleys or joules or Watts/m2 do the Q-SUN and QUV testers produce?
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This question sounds straightforward, but it is based on some erroneous assumptions. Generally the person asking this intends to take the light output of the testers (expressed in Langleys, joules, or Watts/m2) and divide it by the intensity of outdo...
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What Does the “Back Spray” in SAE J2527 Accomplish?
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Automotive exterior testing has been using back spray for years. It’s required in order to run SAE J2527, the performance-based replacement for SAE J1960. This is the only standard that we know about which requires this odd function. Although we do o...
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Accelerated weathering using Natural Sunlight Concentrator technology
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Accelerated weathering using Natural Sunlight Concentrator technology is a great way to combine the benefits of outdoor and laboratory testing. Testing with Q-Lab’s Q-TRAC Solar Concentrators delivers five times the ultraviolet (UV) light of natural ...
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QUV/uvc Part IV: What Exposure Conditions Can Be Recommended for UVC Testing?
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The first three parts in this series discussed what the QUV/uvc is and why it was developed, outlined two published UVC exposure protocols, and provided background information for developing UVC exposure protocols. In this final post in the series, w...
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QUV/uvc Part III: What are key guidelines for developing UVC exposure tests?
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In the last post on the QUV/uvc, we discussed two published standards with UVC exposure protocols, covering quite different applications. In this post, we’ll discuss designing QUV/uvc exposure methods for materials that encounter UVGI protocols in us...
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QUV/uvc Part II: What test cycles have been published for UVC exposures?
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In our first post on the QUV/uvc, we discussed why the QUV/uvc was designed and the differences between it and the QUV accelerated weathering chamber used for generations to conduct UV weathering studies. In this post, we’ll go over published UVC exp...
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