IP Ratings in Marine Solar Systems

IP Ratings Overview

IP ratings are defined in the IEC 60529 standard. An example is IP45, where IP stands for international protection. The first digit refers to dust protection level, while the second digit indicates water protection level.

Dust Protection Scale: The first digit ranges from 0 to 6, where 0 represents no dust protection and 6 means full dust protection.

Water Protection Scale: The second digit ranges from 0 to 9k, where 0 is no water protection and 9k represents protection from steam jet cleaning.

LUX Solar provides the highest level of water protection possible for each application. Individual products display their specific IP ratings.

LUX Solar IP Ratings

IP65 Complete protection against dust ingress and water jets against enclosure from any direction shall have no harmful effect.

IP67 Complete protection against dust ingress and no water damage will occur when immersed in water up to 1 metre in depth for 30 minutes.

IP68 Complete protection against dust ingress and no water damage shall occur when submersed continuously at depths of greater than 1 metre.

Contact Information

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