Xenotest® Beta+
Xenotest® Beta+

The Xenotest Beta+ offers fast, reliable answers to product weatherability questions. By incorporating a variety of optional features, the Beta+ can meet virtually all global weathering and lightfastness test requirements.
4,000 cm² exposure area offers an adequate sample surface area for the exposure of numerous individual samples, up to and including large 3D samples.
Reference Test Specifications include:
AATCC TM16-2003
Colorfastness to Light
AATCC TM169
Weather Resistance of Textiles: Xenon Lamp Exposure
AATCC TM16-1998
Colorfastness to Light
ASTM G151
Standard Practice for Exposing Nonmetallic Materials in Accelerated Test Devices that Use Laboratory Light Sources
ASTM G155
Standard Practice for Operating Xenon Arc Light Apparatus for Exposure of Non-Metallic Materials
ASTM D6695
Standard Practice for Xenon-Arc Exposures of Paint and Related Coatings
GME 60292
Designation of Colour Fastness and Resistance to Artificial Light
GMW 3414
Test Method for Artificial Weathering of Automotive Interior Trim Materials
ISO 105-B02
Textiles - Tests for colour fastness - Part B02: Colour fastness to artificial light: Xenon arc fading lamp test
ISO 105-B04
Textiles - Tests for colour fastness - Part B04: Colour fastness to weathering: Xenon arc test
ISO 105-B06
Textiles - Tests for colour fastness - Part B06: Colour fastness and ageing to artificial light at high temperatures: Xenon arc fading lamp test
ISO 11341
Paints and varnishes - Artificial weathering and exposure to artificial radiation - exposure to filtered xenon-arc radiation
ISO 3917
Road vehicles - Safety glazing materials - Test methods for resistance to radiation, high temperature, humidity, fire and simulated weathering
ISO 4892-1
Plastics - Methods of exposure to laboratory light sources - Part 1: General guidance
ISO 4892-2
Plastics - Methods of exposure to laboratory light sources - Part 2: Xenon-arc sources
ISO 12040
Graphic technology - Prints and printing inks - Assessment of light fastness using filtered xenon arc light
JASO M346
Light-exposure test method by xenon-arc lamp for automotive interior part
MIL-STD 810 F
Environmental engineering considerations and laboratory tests - Part 2: Laboratory test methods - 505.4: Solar radiation (Sunshine)
RAL-GZ 716/1
Plastic Windows - Quality Control
SAE J2019
Accelerated Exposure of Automotive Exterior Materials Using a Controlled Irradiance Air-Cooled Xenon-Arc Apparatus
SAE J2212
Accelerated Exposure of Automotive Interior Trim Components Using a Controlled Irradiance Air-Cooled Xenon-Arc Apparatus
VDA 621-429
Tests for automotive coatings - Weathering test for colour fastness
VDA 621-430
Tests for automotive coatings - Test for resistance to cracking of 2 layer metallic clear coats
VDA 75202
Automotive interior materials - Colourfastness and ageing test against light at high temperatures: Xenon arc
PV 1303
Non-metallic materials - Lightfastness test for interior parts
PV 3929
Non-Metallic Materials - Weather Ageing in Dry, Hot Climate
VW PV 3930
Non-Metallic Materials - Weathering in Moist, Hot Climate