when I did coverage on my other channel of noct to'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 lonus 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 three or four
means protection against tools falling or even screws or random wires causing
problems in the equipment and a first digit of five or six 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 1 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 manufacturers rating and special
ratings with KS on the end that indicate High Press water spray resistance and
even in 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 manufacture 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
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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 lonus let's find
out what your IP rating is turns out uh not that great what a mess anyway uh
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