![]() Obviously, there is one major flaw in this rating system: What about companies, like us here at HZO who are not concerned about keeping water out of a device in order to save it from water damage? Our coatings allow water inside devices, but the waterproof material we coat the devices with protects them from any possibility of water damage. HZO’s services have a different intention than the effect the IP scale can measure. The closest thing currently available, as far as a rating scale is concerned, is the Ingress Protection Rating scale (or IP Code). The IP Code assigns items a rating from 0-8 in terms of how effective the device is at keeping water from entering into it, a process called the ingress of water. Many companies claim water-repellency, but the term is heavily debated because a durable water repellent is rare and because of all the questions and unpredictable elements associated with it.ĭefining “waterproof” is simple, but the concept is more complicated. Currently, there is no established industry standard to classify a device as waterproof. Most have thin-film nanotechnology, which can coat the inside and outside of an electronic device. Water-repellent coatings are the next step up from water-resistant coatings. Devices labeled as water-repellent have properties that repel water from them, which makes them hydrophobic. Water-repellent devices have a better chance of surviving a watery encounter. ![]() Water-repellent: not easily penetrated by water, especially as a result of being treated for such a purpose with a surface coating Water-resistant: able to resist the penetration of water to some degree but not entirel ![]()
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