News Release Archives - Abbess Instruments - Vacuum Chambers - Pumps and Systems

2022 Small Satellite Conference

Visit Us at the upcoming 2022 Small Satellite Conference August 8-11 in Logan, Utah Abbess Instruments, a leading provider of Thermal Vacuum Test Systems is pleased to announce that it will be exhibiting at the Small Satellite Conference August 8-11 at Utah State University in Logan, Utah (www.smallsat.org). For more information about Abbess Instruments and its capabilities for developing and providing leading edge equipment used by satellite developers, corporate research labs, government/national labs and universities world-wide please contact Robert Campbell … Read More

Abbess Featured on Made in Mass. !

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Data-Logged High Vacuum Storage Systems

Holliston, MA … Abbess Instruments, a global provider of quality, vacuum systems with optional easy-to-use process control and data logging, now offers Data-Logged High Vacuum Storage Systems in single or multi-chambered units: Protect your high-value medical, electronics, coated products, and aerospace inventory with Abbess Instruments’ data-logged, heated/cooled, high-vacuum storage systems. Satisfy Quality Control requirements by automatically monitoring, data-logging, and displaying the storage environment. As an option, prior to storage, other Abbess systems can take your product, in-situ, all the way … Read More

High-Visibility Leak Test Vacuum Systems

Abbess Systems’ line of high-visibility vacuum systems now includes leak test chambers compliant with ASTM standards. Useful in the packaging industry, amongst others, each is a front or top-loading Acrylic Cylinder or Cube with or without an aluminum frame and/or base. Optional features include automatic control; data-logging; and altitude “Climb & Dive” profiling to 100,000’. Chambers for dry or wet (bubble) leak testing are available. While the most basic system can be controlled manually, a Vacuum Cycle Controller (VCC) can … Read More

PC Touch Screen Package with “Climb & Dive” Profiling

News Release: Holliston, MA … Abbess Instruments, a global provider of quality, vacuum systems with optional easy-to-use process control and data logging, now offers “Climb & Dive” profiling functionality as an upgrade to its PC Touch Screen Package: Abbess works in a cooperative fashion to customize automation to a customer’s process, and to ensure the system configuration meets production needs. Such upgrade options (to manually operated systems) include: A Vacuum Cycle Controller (VCC) that can be used to automate some … Read More

Thermal Vacuum Gas Mix Test Chamber

front view of custom thermal gas mix test chamber

The Abbess Thermal Vacuum Custom Gas Mix System allows articles under test placed inside the chamber to be exposed to high vacuum pressure as well as various temperatures via a heated and cooled Main Thermal Plate Assembly. A secondary Platen allows for a separate source or radiative heat for the Customer’s planned experiments. Mass flow controllers are configured to mix six types of gases and capable of regulating the gas mixture flow into the chamber. A Touch Screen/PC GUI Thermal … Read More

Abbess now offers a High Density, High Count, Thermocouple Port

Holliston, MA … Abbess Instruments, a global provider of quality, vacuum systems with optional easy-to-use process control and data logging, now offers a High Density, High Count, Thermocouple Port: This High Density, High Count, Thermocouple Port – for 1×10-10 Torr will be of greatest interest to our Altitude Test and Space Simulation customers, who are testing systems requiring an increasing density of sensor connections. It provides for up to 80 thermocouple pairs (comprised of 16 x 5-pair subassemblies) over a … Read More

Abbess Mars atmosphere simulation chamber appears in BBC documentary

Richard Hammond takes on the ultimate engineering project. How on earth do you make a planet, or a solar system, a galaxy or even… a universe?

Performance Specifications

All performance specifications stated, including but not limited to, pump-down rates and vacuum levels make the following assumptions:

The Vacuum Chamber is empty.
The Vacuum Chamber and other system components are clean and dry.
The System is being operated at Sea Level
The ambient temperature is 18°C +/- 2°C
All system components, including those not supplied by Abbess, are appropriate for the system and are functioning properly.
The specifications are not impacted by the properties of your product.

If you require performance specifications for conditions other than those listed above, it is vital that you make this known to Abbess Instruments in writing. Generally Abbess Instruments recommends choosing chamber and pumping system qualities capable of achieving a theoretical vacuum at least an order of magnitude better than the desired operational vacuum.

It is to be noted that a specification described as '10-5 Torr' is a range, and means the clean, empty, dry chamber system is capable of reaching some undetermined value between 1.0x10-5 and 9.9x10-5 Torr: The (clean, empty, dry) chamber is deemed compliant whether its As-Built base vacuum is 1.0x10-5 Torr or 9.9x10-5 Torr. It does not mean that the chamber is guaranteed to reach every level within that range.