IP ratings on your devices what do they
mean let's find out Dave Taylor here and
I want to talk about IP ratings on
devices now you've seen the before on
your phone maybe your watch where it's
gonna be like IP 65 or IP 67 or
something but what do they actually mean
turns out that IP stands for depending
on who you talk to either ingress
protection or international protection
IP turns out that that is actually more
formally known as IEC standard let me
get it right 605 to 9 and it's a two
digit number that explains both with
solids and liquids what level of
protection a device has so let's take
this outside floodlight for example if
we look on the box it says that it's
rated where is it IP 65 so this outdoor
floodlights rated IP 65 well the first
number is its resistance to solids and
let me just say in both cases as zero
means that's completely open and exposed
if you have an open circuit board that's
an IP zero and then it goes up from
there so IP level 1 it's protected from
things greater than 50 millimeters which
is pretty big IP level 2 is twelve point
five millimeters three is two point five
four is where we're starting to get
something interesting where it's
protected from anything greater than one
millimeter in size so you know sand
probably is still gonna be a problem but
IP 5 is dust protected and IP 6 is dust
tight so remember this is an ip65 so IP
6 the first digit that's the highest it
can be and that's good that means that
it's completely rated against any sort
of dust issues the second digit is water
and again liquid level zero means it's
not protected at all you don't even want
to like get it humid IP level 1 is
dripping water and then it goes spraying
water is
three splashing water is four five is
water jet 6 is high-pressure water jets
7 is immersion in water up to one metre
and eight which is the highest waiting
is immersion greater than one meter in
depth so now let's go back and look at
this again ip65 so it has as much dust
protection as it can but it only
protects against water jets so if you
put this somewhere where it's going to
be rained on and waters gonna sit and
maybe accumulate around it it will fail
but if you hose it off
you're good to go that's what a water
jet is right now let's look at a
smartphone so let's for example say this
is the Galaxy Note 8 the brand new
Galaxy Note 8 that's an IP 68 now that's
the best rating you can have so the 6
means it's completely dust proof and the
8 means that it's a safe and can survive
immersion greater than 1 meter in depth
so that's pretty good so Galaxy Note 8
the LG G 6 those are all IP 68 now let's
work our way down a little bit my Apple
watch is an IP 67 or an ip67 and what
that means is that I can actually have
it it's totally dust proof but it's only
technically rated waterproof up to one
meter in depth or three feet so
perfectly good for the shower perfectly
good if I want to just go and jump in
the pool and swim around but not very
good for deep sea diving that would
actually cause the watch to fail now
what else do we have so let's look at
the nest outdoor camera so the nest
outdoor cam is an IP 65 so again just
like this it means that it's fully dust
proof but it's not waterproof if for
some reason it falls down and ends up
sitting in a puddle it'll fail now there
are even devices that have less
protection than that a really
interesting example is the DG I deed
sorry DJ I matrice 200 and that's a
drone and that's rated as a super
all-weather drone but it turns out it's
IP
is only 43 so what does that mean so ip4
means it's protected from objects or
solids greater than one millimeter in
size so when it's up in the air and
there's dust and all sorts of stuff I
not be fully protected from that
depending on how big the actually
individual bits of dust are and then I
said IP 43 3 is not much of a water
rating that means it's safe from
spraying water but it's not okay from
splashing or Jets of water so if you
have that up in the air and you have
your DJI drone and you're having fun and
it starts raining you probably need to
land it and get it back under cover as
fast as you can so that's how this works
the IP ratings the first number is
solids the second number is liquids and
bigger numbers are better than smaller
numbers and the best possible value that
you can have from this rating system is
ip68 like things like the Samsung Note 8
and the LG G 6 this is Dave Taylor go
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