{"id":383,"date":"2018-01-11T17:03:54","date_gmt":"2018-01-11T15:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uus.diotech.ee\/?p=383"},"modified":"2021-12-30T00:28:04","modified_gmt":"2021-12-29T22:28:04","slug":"what-info-do-ip-and-ik-abbreviations-give-for-luminaires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.diotech.ee\/en\/what-info-do-ip-and-ik-abbreviations-give-for-luminaires\/","title":{"rendered":"What info do IP and IK abbreviations give for luminaires?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"diotech-news-img\" src=\"https:\/\/www.diotech.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/ip-ik-klassifikatsioon4.png\" width=\"578\" height=\"325\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>While looking for exterior, bathroom lighting or other lighting, yo have probably been pondering over a combination of symbols that begin with the letters &#8220;IP&#8221; and\/or &#8220;IK&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>IP Classification<\/strong>\u00a0(Ingress Protection) describes the device&#8217;s durability when exposed to water and solid media.\u00a0<strong>IK describes<\/strong>\u00a0the mechanical collision tolerance.<\/p>\n<p>The first level of protection level (in the form of IPxy) shows protection against solids \/ particles and the second number against water protection.\u00a0The standard gives the device user a more detailed view of the simple code of its resilience to environmental impact.\u00a0The water is pure water and the test duration varies between 3 and 30 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>In case of outdoor conditions, luminaires should have at least IP43, which can handle light rain.<\/p>\n<p>This is an international protection notation as described in EN 60529. These standards are available, but are with a charge and copyright-protected, so it is not possible to reflect all the information about them.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the IP number, the device\u2019s \u00a0mechanical impact tolerance is described by the\u00a0<strong>IK number<\/strong>, which is expressed in joules.\u00a0The specification table for this feature is derived from Standard EN 62262. The IK number is on a 11-step scale and allows you to determine the degree of protection of the device housing from external mechanical impacts.\u00a0The higher the IK code, the greater the mechanical strength\/durability.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.diotech.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/ENG20IK20IP.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.diotech.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IK20impact.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; While looking for exterior, bathroom lighting or other lighting, yo have probably been pondering over a combination of symbols that begin with the letters &#8220;IP&#8221; and\/or &#8220;IK&#8221;. IP Classification\u00a0(Ingress Protection) describes the device&#8217;s durability when exposed to water and solid media.\u00a0IK describes\u00a0the mechanical collision tolerance. The first level of protection level (in the form [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diotech.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diotech.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diotech.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diotech.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diotech.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.diotech.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":767,"href":"https:\/\/www.diotech.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions\/767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diotech.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diotech.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diotech.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}