IPXX Waterproof and Dust-proof Ratings as Fast As Possible
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·Techquickie
·2015-05-07
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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