Ci4400 Weather-Ometer This locker-like unit from Atlas provides an enclosed environment for testing how materials and products, such as plastic parts, degrade when exposed to varying levels of light, extreme temperatures and humidity. Using xenon lamps and advanced filter systems, it can simulate solar radiation. The unit has a total exposure area of 1,130 square inches. It can produce temperatures up to 248 degrees Fahrenheit.
What’s new? The option of a sealed lamp rather than Atlas’s standard daylight-simulating lamp/light filter assembly. It also is available as a retrofit to the now-obsolete Ci4000 Weather-Ometer.
Benefits Ease of use, convenience and flexibility. Atlas’s WXView II web-based application allows the user to control the Ci4400 Weather-Ometer from anywhere, and to review and analyze instrument data — including files from archived tests — in a clear and concise graphical format. Protected by a 1,200-hour warranty, the new sealed lamp design incorporates all assembly elements — xenon-arc lamp, inner glass filter, outer glass filter and associated hardware – into a single, factory-sealed unit.
Atlas Material Testing Technology, Mount Prospect, Ill., 773-327-4520,
Karen Hanna | Senior Staff Reporter
Senior Staff Reporter Karen Hanna covers injection molding, molds and tooling, processors, workforce and other topics, and writes features including In Other Words and Problem Solved for Plastics Machinery & Manufacturing, Plastics Recycling and The Journal of Blow Molding. She has more than 15 years of experience in daily and magazine journalism.
