This rugged, reusable chamber is portable and can remotely heat pyrotechnics for autoignition tests.

The autoignition chamber (AIC) performs by remotely heating pyrotechnic devices that can fit the inner diameter of the tube furnace. Two methods, a cold start or a hot start, can be used with this device in autoignition testing of pyrotechnics. A cold start means extending a pyro - technic device into the cold autoignition chamber and then heating the device until autoignition occurs. A hot start means heating the autoignition chamber to a specified temperature, and then ex - tending the device into a hot autoignition chamber until autoignition occurs. Per - sonnel are remote from the chamber during the extension into the hot chamber.