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A solar simulator combines mercury lamps and halogen lamps, to improve upon conventional solar simulators using halogen and infrared lamps which cannot recreate an environment close to that under real sunlight, and upon solar simulators using expensive and fragile metal halide lamps and arc xenon la

A solar simulator combines mercury lamps and halogen lamps, to improve upon conventional solar simulators using halogen and infrared lamps which cannot recreate an environment close to that under real sunlight, and upon solar simulators using expensive and fragile metal halide lamps and arc xenon lamps. An environment recreation laboratory for solar simulation includes a lamp bank mounted at an upper portion thereof and including a plurality of halogen lamps, halogen filter lamps being halogen lamps provided with an infrared filter, respectively, and mercury lamps. A temperature control unit includes a cooling unit that discharges air to cool the lamp bank, and an air conditioner that distributes the air discharged by the cooling unit. An electrical panel controls operations of the lamp bank and the temperature control unit, such that an environment within the environment recreation laboratory may very closely simulate the environment under real sunlight.

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What is claimed is: 1. A solar simulator using a combination of mercury lamps and halogen lamps in an environment recreation laboratory for solar simulation, the solar simulator comprising: a lamp bank mounted at an upper portion of an environment recreation laboratory and including a plurality of

What is claimed is: 1. A solar simulator using a combination of mercury lamps and halogen lamps in an environment recreation laboratory for solar simulation, the solar simulator comprising: a lamp bank mounted at an upper portion of an environment recreation laboratory and including a plurality of halogen lamps, a plurality of mercury lamps and a plurality of halogen filter lamps being halogen lamps provided with infrared filters, respectively; a temperature control unit including a cooling unit that discharges air for removing high temperature heat generated by the lamp bank, and an air conditioner that distributes the air discharged by the cooling unit to the lamp bank; and an electrical panel for controlling operations of the lamp bank and the temperature control unit; wherein in the lamp bank, the plurality of halogen filter lamps are arranged at a central portion thereof, the plurality of halogen lamps are arranged outwardly of the plurality of halogen filter lamps, and the plurality of mercury lamps are arranged outwardly of the plurality of halogen lamps. 2. The solar simulator of claim 1, wherein the lamp bank is formed as a horizontal shape without a zenithal angle. 3. The solar simulator of claim 1, wherein the electrical panel further comprises a mercury lamp stabilizer for maintaining a constant voltage of the mercury lamps. 4. The solar simulator of claim 1, wherein the electrical panel includes a controller for controlling an operation of the temperature control unit in accordance with an internal signal and for controlling ON/OFF operation of the lamps constituting the lamp bank in accordance with a time signal, wherein the controller stores a temperature change reference value and an irradiance change reference value. 5. The solar simulator of claim 4, wherein a level of the time signal is divided such that the lamps are selectively turned on in accordance therewith, corresponding to the irradiance change reference value. 6. The solar simulator of claim 5, wherein in accordance with a time signal of each level, at least one halogen filter lamp, one halogen lamp and one mercury lamp are turned on. 7. The solar simulator of claim 5, wherein if the amount of irradiance is set to increase as the level of the time signal increases, the lamps turned on in accordance with a time signal of an upper level include those lamps turned on in accordance with a time signal of a lower level. 8. The solar simulator of claim 6, wherein if the amount of irradiance is set to increase as the level of the time signal increases, the lamps turned on in accordance with a time signal of an upper level include those lamps turned on in accordance with a time signal of a lower level. 9. The solar simulator of claim 4, wherein the internal signal controls the air conditioner and the cooling unit such that a temperature within the environment recreation laboratory corresponds to the temperature change reference value. 10. The solar simulator of claim 1, further comprising a perforated plate disposed on the same plane as the lamp bank but at a region where the lamp bank is not disposed, wherein the size of each perforation of the perforated plate is smaller than an interval between the lamps within the lamp bank. 11. A solar simulator using a combination of mercury lamps and halogen lamps, comprising: a lamp bank including a plurality of halogen lamps, a plurality of mercury lamps and a plurality of halogen filter lamps being halogen lamps provided with infrared filters, respectively, wherein the plurality of halogen filter lamps are arranged at a center portion of the lamp bank, the plurality of halogen lamps are arranged outwardly of the halogen filter lamps, and the plurality of mercury lamps are arranged outwardly of the halogen filter lamps. 12. The solar simulator of claim 11, wherein the plurality of lamps constituting the lamp bank are arranged parallel to each other. 13. The solar simulator of claim 11, wherein the lamps constituting the lamp bank are selectively turned on for emitting illumination, corresponding to an actual daily change of the amount of irradiance. 14. The solar simulator of claim 11, wherein a level of lamp lighting is divided according to an actual daily change of the amount of irradiance, and at least one halogen filter lamp, one halogen lamp and one mercury lamp are turned on at each level of lamp lighting. 15. The solar simulator of claim 11, wherein when the level of the lamp lighting is divided according to an actual daily change of the amount of irradiance, lamps turned on at a lower level in which the amount of irradiance is lower are also turned on at an upper level in which the amount of irradiance is greater.