The experimental device for solar chimney collector was set up by the way of simplification of the practical solar chimney collector.The experimental device includes the collector trunk,the simulant of solar radiation,the measuring systems of air flow rate and temperature and the data acquisition system.All parts were introduced briefly and some experiments have been done.Temperature differences between the inlet and outlet of the collector and collector efficiency under the conditions of variable solar radiation,air flow rate and ambinent temperature were obtained.The preliminary experiments verify the feasibility of the setup.