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While General Technics has designed and tested to
RTCA DO-160 over the past 30 years, we have decided to design and test instead
to a much more rigorous and publicly available standard.
That standard is MIL-STD-810.
The latest release is Revision G, published
The
General Technics CYA-100 will survive, operate, or be destroyed under these
conditions:
Temperature: -65°C to +150°C
Storage, -40°C
to +85°C
Operating
Altitude: No effect from +60 Pounds
per Square Inch (PSI) to 0.001 Torr vacuum, inclusive of explosive
decompression
Temperature Variation: No
effect from -40°C
to +85°C
operating, regardless of ramp rate or number of cycles
Humidity: No effect
Shock & Crash Safety: No
effect to 40 g, mounting structure dependant
Vibration: No effect from 0-2000
Hertz to 20 g, inclusive of resonance frequency, mounting structure dependant
Explosion proof: Intrinsic by
design
Water Proof: Will operate while
submerged
Fluids Susceptibility: Not
susceptible to all listed fluids, will operate while submerged in all listed
fluids
Sand & Dust: Electrically not
susceptible, mechanically susceptible to vane abrasion and bearing seizure
Fungus Susceptibility: Not
susceptible, no fungus nutrients by design
Salt & Fog: No effect
Magnetic Effect: No effect
Power Input: 7-35 VDC input
with no effect on operation
Voltage spike: No effect
Audio Frequency Conducted Susceptibility: No
effect
Induced Signal Susceptibility: No
effect
RF Emission and Susceptibility: No
effect
Lightning Susceptibility: Unknown,
airframe dependant
Icing: Vane probe is not heated,
and may not function in icing conditions
ESD: Not susceptible to normal
unprotected handling, inputs ESD protected by current limiting and Vss/Vdd
diodes
Flammability: PMMA vane and urethane display compound will burn (<10 grams mass)