Optional Items and Features Archives - Abbess Instruments - Vacuum Chambers - Pumps and Systems

Vacuum Lighting

Abbess offers a variety of in-chamber lighting options to meet our needs. From simple LED spotlighting to more advanced solar simulations, we can help you! Accommodating lighting inside a vacuum chamber is not as simple as sticking a light to the ceiling of the chamber. Due to the nature of vacuum, traditional lighting options will overheat and disrupt your desired testing environment. Our engineers have developed numerous solutions to this problem. To get an accurate quote for a system that … Read More

Side Loading Cube Chamber with Vertical Slide Door

Custom thermal vacuum chamber with sliding door

In order to fit the very specific space and access requirements of our customers, Abbess has developed an easy vertical slide door for its side loading chambers. Our integrated sales and engineering team developed this system ain order to satisfy the specific dimensions driven by our customers AUV and the need to limit the footprint of the system with in the production facility. Abbess’s agile manufacturing approach made the chamber system a working reality on a timeline considered in terms … Read More

Vacuum Mixing Options

Mixing can greatly improve the degassing operation of almost all materials; it is a must for thicker materials like pastes and gels. Prevent the integration of air into your product by using a vacuum mixer. Electric Mixer 5 gallon design and Vacuum Casting mixer These Chambers are constructed of heavy alloy. Our customers find this to be a practical size for use in vacuum degassing and vacuum processing of all sorts of items including, but not limited to: foods, herbs, … Read More

Abbess Vacuum Gauge Selection Page

InstruTech, Inc. announces the release of a new and improved version of the VGC301 vacuum gauge controller. The VGC301 controller is now offered with an OLED display. The new OLED design offers a very bright and sharp display and is a significant improvement verses the older LCD design. One additional change with the new OLED design is that the power supply has been removed from the VGC301. This means that the VGC301 can be operated by the user supplied 12 … Read More

Coaxial or Tri-axial Vacuum Feed-Thru

Model VFT-01 Vacuum Industry Standard ISO KF type quick flange All kinds of connections, modifications and connectors (BNC, Tri-axial, D-sub min, and others Use to connect to samples in tubes, vacuum chambers or cryostats

Basic Vacuum Sequencer and Cycle Timer with Vacuum Regulator

Vacuum Sequencer and Cycle Timer with Vacuum Regulator Optional Motor Start/stop Contactor This Controller is designed to be a part of our rugged bench top vacuum chambers in production or testing. Some of our customers find this to be a practical solution for using a vacuum chamber in a controlled process to dry products, and degas of parts, liquids, plastics, resins, and epoxies. This regulator and cycle controller allows the whole vacuum operation, from start to finish, to be controlled, … Read More

55 Gallon Drum Vacuum Chamber

Large Volume Vacuum Degassing is made easy with our 55-Gallon Drum Vacuum Chambers These Chambers are constructed of heavy welded steel alloy. Our customers find this to be a practical size for use in vacuum degassing, mixing and processing of large bulk containers up to 55-gal drum size. Vacuum mixing chambers can be used for a wide variety of material including, but not limited to: foods, herbs, papers, liquids, jells, powders, plastics resins, epoxies and many other parts and materials. … Read More

Heat Sealing in Vacuum

This system will produce a very high quality vacuum bag heatseal in a high vacuum. With this design the thermal control loop is closed: ACTUAL temperature = SET temperature. Even minute thermal loads on the heatsealing band are detected and corrected quickly and precisely. Abbess uses Ropex RS440 temperature controllers, to control the temperature of heating elements (heatsealing bands, beaded bands, cutting wires, heatsealing blades, solder elements etc.), as required in a variety of heatsealing processes. This Vacuum Chamber design is a … Read More

Top Loading Chamber with Lateral Sliding Door

Large Top loading Cube with lateral gliding door

This Custom Top Loading Chamber with Lateral Gliding Door Action was produced in answer to a customer’s very specific requirements, and on an accelerated timeline. Specific dimensions driven by the AUV (Article Under Vacuum) and configured to fit within the constrained footprint of the end user’s production facility. This chamber took form quickly, as it was the idea of our integrated sales and engineering team. Abbess’s agile manufacturing approach made the chamber system a working reality on a timeline considered in … Read More

Stock Cube Vacuum Chambers

Depending on availability, next day service available. If accessories or modifications are needed, please discuss options with us when placing your order or submitting an RFQ. These chambers may also be purchased directly through our online store – Abbess Online. For the past 30 years, we have had customer after customer come back and adapt their chambers for their current needs. The ability for these chambers to be modified and reused after decades in the field is possible due to … Read More

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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.