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when I did coverage on my other channel of noct to's fancy new industrial

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cooling fans with ip52 and IP67 ratings

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I got a lot of questions from people about those ratings or more specifically

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I got the same question a lot of times lonus I see those ratings all the time

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and I know that they have to do with Environmental Protection but what the heck do all the individual letters and

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numbers actually mean let's start with the letters IP stands for ingress

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protection which basically means something that blocks entry or access to

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something else but of course depending on the application while sometimes it's

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important to keep water and Tiny dust particles out of something in other

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cases larger objects are the main concern and that's where the numbers

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come in usually the IP rating of a device or enclosure has two numbers one

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to indicate the size of the physical objects it's protected against with a

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second one to indicate the level of water protection that it provides so for

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solid objects the lower ratings are designed as more of an indication of how

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safe personnel working around a piece of equipment will be a first digit of one

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or two indicates that a worker won't accidentally be able to put an elbow or

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a finger somewhere that they could be harmed moving up to a three or four

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means protection against tools falling or even screws or random wires causing

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problems in the equipment and a first digit of five or six means that even

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dust cannot enter the enclosure in any way that would interfere with the

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operation of the device pretty fancy but while dust can cause a slow painful

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death for electronics It's relatively easy to clean or otherwise deal with so

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for us Gadget Geeks the trend towards water resistant Electronics is pretty

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exciting but just like dust the scale ranges from 1 to two meaning it's being

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protected from water dripping from above or at a slight angle with four and five

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promising to keep out water splashed or sprayed from any direction seven and

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eight indicating that your gear is protected from Full submersion at

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various depths and durations depending on the manufacturers rating and special

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ratings with KS on the end that indicate High Press water spray resistance and

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even in close range high pressure high temperature waterproofness but for most

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consumer grade gear you probably won't see those last two and that's most of

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the variations on older products you might see a third digit for impact

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resistance but that has been separated into a separate ik rating now and

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sometimes you'll see an X subbed in for the solid object with only a second

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digit which just means the first test wasn't performed or was deemed

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Irrelevant for some reason use your common sense it doesn't mean that the

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enclosure will allow an elbow to enter but can keep out High pressure water

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although if I could invent such a thing sorry I got distracted there

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anyway let's just wrap this up by pointing out that while Ingress

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Protection is an industry standard rating system it's not the only way of

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testing a product and just because there's no IP rating doesn't mean that

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the manufacture hasn't validated the product gopro's waterproof housing for

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their cameras for example a fairly well-regarded waterproof enclosure has

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no IP rating it just means they might have used a different methodology

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speaking of methodologies I'm not sure if I understand the rationale

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behind fractal Design's latest marketing campaign with us instead of getting me

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to talk about how great their PC fans computer cases power supplies and sexy

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Marketing Executives are they insist on punishing me on camera so when they

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heard about today's topic they kind of went wow great topic lonus let's find

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out what your IP rating is turns out uh not that great what a mess anyway uh

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manner thanks for watching guys like or dislike according to how you felt about

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already you guys use pepper I asked for

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salt or oh