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Essay:
ORLN Large Scale Climate SimulatorThe Large Scale Climate Simulator provides controlled conditions of temperature and humidity above and below test sections as big as 12.5 ft by 12.5 ft. A test section is assembled in a platform outside the LSCS and moved by a crane. The assembly can weigh as much as 10 Tons and can be 6 ft high. A low-slope roof test section is shown being placed in the LSCS in the above photograph, and the residential attic test section is shown below. Once a test section is in place with all instrumentation installed and checked out, an automated data acquisition and control system maintains desired conditions above and below it and records the responses of thermocouples and resistance temperature devices, heat-flux transducers, relative humidity sensors, mass flowrate meters, load cells, current shunts or any transducer that produces a voltage output.
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