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RECOMMENDED PRACTICE
Reaffirmed 2018-05
Superseding J3014 MAR2013
Highly Accelerated Failure Test (HAFT) for Automotive Lamps with LED Assembly
RATIONALE
Highly accelerated failure test (HAFT), or sometimes referred as accelerated life test (ALT) or highly accelerated life test
(HALT) has been an industry's practice for long period time, both in automotive lighting as well as in general lighting
applications. The purpose of HALT is to identify defined failures that may relate to the "weakest link", quality or design
faults, or claimed life of the products. With fast growth of LED sources being used in the lighting applications, the lumen
maintenance alone may not be the measure of reliability. Other types of failures, within the LED lamp assembly, must be
identified as a quality or reliability concern. HAFT is intended to identify LED lamp assembly failure modes; the test results
do not and should not be used to predict operational life of the product. For practical reasons, the HAFT should be
completed within a one-day period.
With all possible impact from environment and usage in automotive applications, it is identified based on the known best
practice in the industry that three major stressors can be used to induce earlier failures. These stressors are temperature,
vibration, and input voltage to LED source assembly. This test is used to realize the operating and destructive limits of a
product, when subjected to thermal, electrical and vibration loads.
Humidity is not considered as an independent stressor because it is a function of temperature and the formation of
condensation naturally occurs as temperatures are lowered. Controlling humidity requires air exchange and conditioning.
Controlling humidity during temperature changes is slow and mechanically challenging. During rapid thermal transitions it
is not possible to control humidity. The HAFT test will produce rapid uncontrolled humidity swings as temperature changes
and will be a stressor on the DUT, but it will not be specified as a variable in the test.
The analysis of the test results may also help recognize variations and uncover factors that may affect the intended
performance. The sequences or combinations of applied stressors to the DUT are recommended based on the current
practices.
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