{"id":22,"date":"2026-08-31T13:43:57","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T13:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.gatilab.com\/uranium\/what-ip66-and-ip67-mean\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T13:43:57","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T13:43:57","slug":"what-ip66-and-ip67-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.gatilab.com\/uranium\/what-ip66-and-ip67-mean\/","title":{"rendered":"What IP66 and IP67 mean on a spec sheet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The two digits in an IP rating answer two different questions: how well the enclosure keeps out solids, and how well it keeps out water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table is-style-spec\"><table><thead><tr><th>Rating<\/th><th>Solids<\/th><th>Water<\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td>IP65<\/td><td>Dust tight<\/td><td>Low-pressure jets<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>IP66<\/td><td>Dust tight<\/td><td>Powerful jets<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>IP67<\/td><td>Dust tight<\/td><td>Immersion to 1 m for 30 minutes<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">IP67 isn&#8217;t automatically better than IP66. An enclosure can survive immersion and still fail under a pressure washer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The two digits in an IP rating answer two different questions: how well the enclosure keeps out solids, and how well it keeps out water. Rating Solids Water&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guides"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.gatilab.com\/uranium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.gatilab.com\/uranium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.gatilab.com\/uranium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.gatilab.com\/uranium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.gatilab.com\/uranium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/demo.gatilab.com\/uranium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63,"href":"https:\/\/demo.gatilab.com\/uranium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions\/63"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.gatilab.com\/uranium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.gatilab.com\/uranium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.gatilab.com\/uranium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}