[husted]

It depends hugely on which industry you work in. I'm developing SW for mobile phones and it's not been too long ago I had to use a climate chamber to debug a memory chip that was sensitive to temperature. There was also an issue with USB that failed to enumerate at -20C.

I haven't used it yet but we have some really cool (ha!) equipment that will adjust the temperature from -20 to +60 (Celsius) in minutes.

[HeyLaughingBoy]

How large are those chambers? Where I work we have massive thermal chambers (about 20 feet x 40 feet or so) but there is no way they can achieve that rapid a temp swing.

I really hate going in those things when they're testing at high temp and high humidity, especially when I'm dressed for winter weather.