Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “IPXX Waterproof and Dust-proof Ratings as Fast As Possible”.
When i did coverage on my other channel of noctua’s fancy new industrial cooling fans with ip52 and ip67 ratings, i got a lot of questions from people about those ratings or, more specifically, i got the same question a lot of times. Linus, i see those ratings all the time and i know that they have to do with environmental protection, but what the heck do all the individual letters and numbers actually mean. Let’S start with the letters ip stands for ingress protection, which basically means something that blocks entry or access to something else, but of course, depending on the application, while sometimes it’s important to keep water and tiny dust particles out of something in other cases, larger objects are The main concern – and that’s where the numbers come in, usually the ip rating of a device or enclosure, has two numbers one to indicate the size of the physical objects. It’S protected against with a second one to indicate the level of water protection that it provides. So for solid objects, the lower ratings are designed as more of an indication of how safe personnel working around a piece of equipment will be a first digit of one or two indicates that a worker won’t accidentally be able to put an elbow or a finger somewhere. That they could be harmed moving up to a 3 or 4 means protection against tools, falling or even screws or random wires, causing problems in the equipment and a first digit of 5 or 6 means that even dust cannot enter the enclosure in any way. That would interfere with the operation of the device pretty fancy, but while dust can cause a slow, painful death for electronics, it’s relatively easy to clean or otherwise deal with.
So for us gadget, geeks. The trend towards water resistant electronics is pretty exciting, but just like dust. The scale ranges from one to two meaning it’s being protected from water dripping from above or at a slight angle, with four and five promising to keep out water splashed or sprayed from any direction.
Seven and eight indicating that your gear is protected from full submersion at various depths and durations, depending on the manufacturer’s rating and special ratings with ks on the end that indicate high pressure, water spray resistance and even close range high pressure, high temperature waterproofness. But for most consumer grade gear you probably won’t see those last two and that’s most of the variations on older products. You might see a third digit for impact resistance, but that has been separated into a separate ik rating now and sometimes you’ll see an x subbed in for the solid object with only a second digit, which just means the first test wasn’t performed or was deemed irrelevant.
For some reason use your common sense. It doesn’t mean that the enclosure will allow an elbow to enter but can keep out high pressure water, although if i could invent such a thing, sorry, i got distracted there anyway. Let’S just wrap this up by pointing out that, while ingress protection is an industry standard rating system, it’s not the only way of testing a product and just because there’s no ip rating doesn’t mean that the manufacturer hasn’t validated the product gopro’s waterproof housing for their cameras. For example, a fairly well-regarded waterproof enclosure has no ip rating; it just means they might have used a different methodology.
Speaking of methodologies, i’m not sure if i understand the rationale behind fractal design’s latest marketing campaign with us. Instead of getting me to talk about how great their pc fans, computer cases, power supplies and sexy marketing executives, are, they insist on punishing me on camera? So when they heard about today’s topic, they kind of went wow great topic. Linus, let’s find out what your ip rating is turns out: uh, not that great what a mess anyway uh. They want your feedback on this new advertising concept, so check out the link in the video description to fill out a very short survey and let them know if they should keep sponsoring tech quickie in this manner, thanks for watching guys like or dislike according to how You felt about the video leave a comment with suggestions for future episodes and don’t forget to subscribe.
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