Hi guys my name is Jorge again here from SIRS - Electronics
and today I would like to show you guys a very cool test
that I thought about doing for you guys.
So basically what we have here is 3 LED strips.
An IP 40, an IP 67 and an IP68.
What I'm going to do for you, is I'm going to drop them in water
and see what happens.
So this is the IP 68.
I'm just going to drop in there.
This is the IP 67,
it also goes in there.
And this is the IP 40,
and this one, actually, does not have any protection,
so it's non waterproof.
So as you can see, all three strips are in there.
And the IP 40 is not waterproof,
there's no protection. So what does IP mean?
IP ratings are Ingress Protection ratings
What it means is basically
that you can protect it against solid objects or liquids.
The first digit on your IP ratings is for your solids.
An IP 40 will be protected against solid objects.
An IP 67 and 68 will be dust tight.
The IP 40 is not waterproof
but the 67 is water resistant.
And the difference between the 67 and 68 is,
the water resistant one,
that one will be able to be set up on the outside
for external applications and it can take a little bit of rain.
The IP 68, you can actually submerge it up to 1 meter.
But only for a few minutes.
I would recommend not leaving it in there for more than 30 minutes or maybe an hour.
Another thing I would like to show you guys is,
the IP 40 has not turned off yet.
And the reason because of this is,
the water has a high DC resistance and the strip is a very low voltage strip.
That's why it's not turning off.
but it is deteriorating, the material,
the copper, the soldering, and everything in there.
And little by little, that strip is going to give out eventually.
So you don't want to damage your strips by using the wrong application
or using the wrong strips on your applications.
Now I would not recommend, even if the IP 68 is submergible,
I would not recommend leaving it inside a pool or a fish tank with living things.
But why is it submergible if you cannot use it with living things?
Well you can set up a nice decoration in your house. You can make a fish bowl
and just turn it on with some LED lighting for decoration purposes.
But do not leave living fish, otherwise they can get damaged.
So as you can see, all three of them are still on.
They're still there, they're all working fine.
But as you can see on the IP 40 at the very bottom, it's bubbling up.
That bubble comes from the resistors heating up
and the soldering,
so that bubbling is releasing some chemicals.
Like the lead from the soldering and all that stuff.
And those can be actually very harmful.
So imagine you're swimming in your swimming pool or your fish on your fish tank
and you have all sorts of chemicals
like lead and all that poisonous stuff, that's why it's dangerous.
Ok guys, well I hope you liked the video
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