materials testing service
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Accelerated Indoor Light Testing
GET A QUOTESolar Light Company, LLC provides Accelerated Indoor Light Testing services for indoor exposure of items such as medical packaging and disposables, plastics (including vinyls, PE, ABS, acrylics, polycarbonates, PET, HIPS, and other synthetic materials,) paints, coatings, textiles, inks, dyes, papers (including cardboards and wallpapers,) and any other materials which are subject to degradation inside. Our state of the art laboratory uses fluorescent sources of several types, depending on the customer’s unique requirements. In many cases, we can expose samples to a year’s worth of interior lighting conditions in only a few days, objectively determining how a material reacts to those long term lighting conditions.
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Accelerated Outdoor UV / Sun Fade Testing
GET A QUOTESolar Light Company, LLC provides Accelerated Outdoor UV Testing services for outdoor exposure of plastics (including vinyls, PE, ABS, acrylics, polycarbonates, PET, HIPS, and other synthetic materials,) paints, coatings, textiles, inks, dyes, papers (including cardboards and wallpapers,) and any other materials which are subject to degradation outside. Our state of the art laboratory uses either xenon arc sources or fluorescent sources of several types, depending on the customer’s unique requirements. In most cases, we can expose samples to a year’s worth of sunlight within a week, objectively determining the sample material’s reaction.
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Custom Testing
GET A QUOTEUsing our state of the art Materials Testing Laboratory’s advanced spectroradiometers, monochromators, NIST traceable standard lamps, and NIST Traceable standard sensors, Solar Light Company, LLC provides Custom Testing Services for a wide variety of applications.
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Spectral Irradiance Measurements
GET A QUOTESolar Light Company, LLC can provide accurate spectral irradiance measurements analysis of sensors and light sources using advanced spectroradiometers, monochromators, NIST traceable standard lamps, and NIST Traceable standard sensors.
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Spectral Response Testing
GET A QUOTESolar Light Company, LLC can provide spectral response testing and analysis of detectors, light sources, and the interaction of materials with light, from UV to near-IR. Using advanced spectroradiometers, monochromators, NIST traceable standard lamps, and NIST Traceable standard detectors, Solar Light provides absolute spectroradiometric analyses including spectral response of sensors, spectral output of light sources, and spectral light transmission characteristics of materials.
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Ultraviolet Protection Factor (UPF) Test Includes First 2 Samples
GET A QUOTESolar Light performs accurate UPF testing for clothing and fabrics to all major worldwide standards: AATCC 183, BS EN 13758-1, GBT18830-2009, and NZS 4399 – please advise which you need, and we will perform the testing accordingly. We can include a UPF Certification Report as an option, which details the statistical properties of the measurements of your samples, as well as equipment used in the testing. You may optionally launder the article(s) prior to testing, please include that as a note on the Material Test Form, along with any other conditioning, location specifics and whether to include wet testing. Typical turnaround is cited as five (5) business days after we receive the prepared samples to test.
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UV and VIS Spectral Transmission Tests Using Analyzer
GET A QUOTESolar Light Company, LLC can provide accurate spectral transmission analysis of materials in multiple spectra for any testing requirement including UV and VIS. Using advanced spectroradiometers, monochromators, NIST traceable standard lamps, and NIST Traceable sensors, we can provide absolute spectroradiometric analyses with optional detailed reports, showing sample performance under strict parameters using ASTM E903 “Solar Absorptance, Reflectance, and Transmittance of Materials Using Integrating Spheres” as a guideline.
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Visible Light Reflectance Test
GET A QUOTESolar Light Company, LLC provides Visible Spectral Reflectance Testing Services, covering the 400-700nm range with 10nm intervals. As a means of assessing the changes of a material under the action of accelerated light exposure, we employ our Hunter spectrophotometer to measure the Spectral Reflectance, or color changes.
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UVC, UVB, UVA, UVA+B, VIS, and IR Spectral Transmission Tests Using Monochromator
GET A QUOTESolar Light Company, LLC can provide accurate spectral transmission analysis of materials in multiple spectra for any testing requirement including UV, VIS, and IR. Using advanced spectroradiometers, monochromators, NIST traceable standard lamps, and NIST Traceable sensors, we can provide absolute spectroradiometric analyses with optional detailed reports, showing sample performance under strict parameters.
- Spectral Transmission of a Material. Typical scans include:
- UV 250-400nm in 5nm intervals
- UV+VIS 250-800nm in 5nm intervals
- IR 800-1800nm in 5nm intervals
- Sunlight applications 280-1100nm in 10nm intervals
- UV+VIS+IR 250-1600nm available in 1nm intervals
- Includes data and chart
- Contact us for any special requirements
