Temperature & Altitude
Built for extremes of temperature like no other
It's one thing to build a computer that will resist the ocassional drop of water. It's another to build it to survive extremes of temperature and altitude. But the Opentec range excels in both extremely low and extrememly high temperatures, through implementing a fundamentally more stringent set of design paramaters that have been field proven on many, many ocassions.
The Australian Army Alpine Association team that climbed to the top of Everest, and Andrew Lock, who aims to be the first Aussie to climb all 14 of the world's peaks that are over 8,000 metres in height chose Opentec because of the temperature extremes their gear needed to survive.
High Temp, MIL-STD-810E, Method 501.3:
Procedures I (Storage) & II (Operational)
Procedure I subjects the unit to 12 hours dwell time at 23°C (73°F) and 12 hours dwell time at 60°C (140°F) in each cycle, 24 hours per cycle, total of seven cycles.
Procedure II subjects the unit to three cycles of 12 hours at 23°C (73°F) and 12 hours at 50°C (122°F).
OUTCOME: Opentec products pass both test regimes.
Low Temp, MIL-STD-810E, Method 502.3:
Procedures I (Storage) & II (Operational)
The low operating temperature was set at -10°C (14°F) and non-operating temperature at -20°C (-4°F).
Procedure I calls for the unit to be stored in -20°C (-4°F) temperatures for 4 hours.
Procedure II requires the unit to be operating at -10°C (14°F) for 4 hours.
RESulT: Openfire products continue to boot and operate following each test without any signs of malfunctioning, as per the test regimes.
