Question on waterproof standards; what are.............

[Becky]

the waterproofing following standards;-
IP65; IP66; IP67; IP68

We see these designations in catalogues, but what do they exactly mean??

Intelligent question asked by Becky at the request of Richard!!


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[Kilter]

Dunno!

Unintelligent answer from Robin done all on his own!

 

[salamicollie]

Its all here but first digit is protection from solids (dust) and second is liquids

http://www.aquatext.com/tables/ip_ratings.htm

 

[paulrossall]

Does this help?
http://www.hannainst.com/products/prodline/protect.cfm

 

[Becky]

You are cheeky, you are!!

Do you ever do as you are asked nicely??

I did.

 

[Becky]

Thank you guys. Just what he wanted to know.

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[Kilter]

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You are cheeky, you are!!

Do you ever do as you are asked nicely??

I did.

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2 sometimes
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[thefatlady]

An additional useless bit of information:

IP stands for Institute of Petroleum (now Institute of Energy) who developed the standards.

Not to be confused with IP-xx (note the hyphen) test procedures which cover all sorts of chemical and other petroleum related tests.

 

[Rowana]

IP is actually Ingress Protection developed by the European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization (CENELEC), and is used for all types of electrical equipment.