To comply with today's stringent vehicle regulations, CPC develop every product to comply with complex specifications.  This requires the validation testing to various environmental and structural conditions.  Therefore, CPC have various test facilities in-house including:

• Environmental Chamber:  This chamber can conduct both temperature and humidity varibles.  Temperature limits are between -40degC and 140degC.  Humidity levels are capable up to 95% RH.  The chamber is fully programmable to run any permitation of the above variants for any set duration.  This allows for accurate replication of environmental conditions witnessed in the field.
• Motion simulator:  This rig provides 6-axis movement allowing complete freedom of movement.  This is used to simulate the dynamic environment of the vehicle.  A sample application has been to get vehicle data using an accelerometer and transferring this data through a PC interface to the simulator.  A complete fuel tank system including the relevant fuel valves were then subjected to the replicated vehicle movement.  This allows back-to-back tests to be done without requiring time consuming and expensive in-vehicle tests. 
  
• Dust Chamber:  Another important consideration in Australian conditions is the effect of dust on vehicle components, in particular the contamination of the fuel. 
  

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