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1. How long has SCSI been in the Low Humidity Environmental Chamber Business?
SCSI has been in the Low Humidity Environmental test Chamber Business since 1967 with our first installation at the test facility at General Motors in Detroit, Michigan.

2. Does SCSI provide a complete turnkey Environmental Chamber System?
Yes, Scientific Climate System provides SCSI employed and professionally managed turnkey projects on all installations of SCSI Environmental Chambers. Commencing with the project timeline and plant facilities layout, the installation process is thoroughly outlined to identify project benchmarks, milestones, critical paths and the time allocated to complete each phase of the project. SCSI prepares detailed schedules to inform our clients when engineering and design, procurement, fabrication, shipment, installation, start-up and training will occur. . This way, the customer is guaranteed a single source responsibility.

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3. Are you geographically restricted where you can install Environmental Chambers?
No. In fact, we have delivered and installed Environmental Chambers that are in operation all throughout the United States and many locations throughout the world. SCSI installations include a range from small start-up companies and mid-sized companies to many Fortune 500 Companies.

4. What are some of the benefits of an SCSI Environmental Chamber Systems?
With an SCSI Dry Room or Environmental Chambers, you receive a single source turnkey responsibility, guaranteed low humidity performance, an accomplished and experienced staff with a full range of engineering specialties including mechanical, structural, chemical, and electrical. Also, SCSI offers the latest in computerized Dry Room controls that are Y2K sensitive, along with a full-service support by our trained team of in-house engineering and construction professionals.

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5. What are your Dry Room Size or Environmental Chamber Size capabilities?
SCSI Custom Dry Rooms and Environmental Chambers range in sizes from 100 sq. ft. pilot facilities to 25,000+ sq. ft. production plants. Most of our Environmental Chambers are customized to any variety of design configurations and dimensions in order that we may accommodate our customers who have restricted building requirements.

6. What is your standard warranty?
SCSI's standard warranty on Environmental Chambers include ten years on the modular wall panels, five years on the specified refrigeration components, two years on the dehumidification system, a one-year parts and labor warranty, along with having a factory-trained technician do a complete tune-up of the Environmental Chamber three separate times over a two-year period. Additional warranties are also available.

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7. Can you incorporate a Clean Room environment into a Environmental test Chamber?
Yes. We have installed many Environmental test Chambers that also have a Clean Room environment that include Clean Room classifications of 100,000, 10,000, and even 1,000 ppm.

8. What is the lowest capability of humidity level or dew point your Environmental test Chamber System can maintain?
SCSI can provide our customers with Environmental Chambers that are able to maintain control levels at less than 1% Relative Humidity (standard is -40 ° dew point return temperature). A -70 ° dew point is very common in differing ambient environments.

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9. Who will do the installation?
SCSI will send our own experienced, factory trained personnel to do the complete installation. We insist that all of SCSI's technical personnel are thoroughly experienced and have a practical knowledge of complex, mechanical systems. Extensive, hands-on training with every conceivable system and component is standard procedure for each SCSI technician. In addition, our Field Engineering Manager, Mr. Harold Russell, will be on the job site to supervise quality control of the installation, including start-up assistance of each Environmental Chamber. All of this helps insure that every single Dry Room we construct is done right the first time, every time. Quality is Job Number 1.

10. Who will handle the service after the installation?
In addition to training your selected personnel on how to operate and do standard, normal maintenance on the SCSI Dry Room or Environmental Chamber, we will provide a factory-trained technician to do a tune-up of the Dry Room or Environmental Chamber three separate times over a two-year period, after initial acceptance of the Dry Room or Environmental Chamber by the customer. Additional maintenance service contracts are also available.

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11. How safe are your Lithium Dry Rooms and Environmental Chambers?
At SCSI we have a focus on safety. All motors are explosion proof and all room panels and insulation are fire retardant.