Glossary

IP65 for outdoor displays

IP65 means dust-tight and protected against water jets from any direction. It is the baseline for a display that lives outdoors — and it is only half of what keeps one alive.

An IP rating has two digits. The first is solids, the second is liquids. In IP65, the 6 is the highest solids rating: dust-tight, no ingress at all. The 5 means protected against water projected from a nozzle from any direction — rain, wind-driven spray and hosing down.

Buyers tend to focus on the water digit and skip the dust one. That is backwards for signage. Water either gets in or it does not; dust accumulates slowly, insulates the electronics, and turns a cooling design into a heating one over a couple of years.

What IP65 does not solve is the inside of the enclosure. A sealed box in the sun becomes an oven, and a sealed box on a cold morning condenses. That is why our outdoor bulletin board pairs the sealing with a temperature sensor, an internal cooling fan and a heater, plus a control board that schedules power and adjusts brightness — and an earth-leakage breaker rated 250 V / 20 A, because an outdoor enclosure is also an electrical installation.

 Reference

In numbers

First digit — 6Dust-tightNo ingress of dust at all.
Second digit — 5Water jets from any directionRain, spray and hosing.
Our outdoor panel55 ″ at 4000 cd/m²Designed exclusively for outdoor bulletin boards.
Climate controlTemperature sensor, cooling fan, heaterSealing alone does not manage heat or condensation.
Electrical safetyEarth-leakage breaker250 V / 20 A.

Common questions

Higher is not automatically better. IP67 means temporary immersion, which a wall-mounted board never experiences, and tighter sealing makes thermal management harder.
No. Condensation forms inside the enclosure from air that was already there. That is the heater's job.
We do not recommend it. 'Sheltered' still means humidity swings and wind-blown dust.

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