Searching for IP67 Spec

I believe the current standards are......

AS 60529-2004 Degrees of protection provided by enclosures (IP Code)

And

IEC 60529 Ed. 2.1 (Bilingual 2001) Degrees of protection provided by enclosures (IP Code)

The test procedures should still be in there.

IP6x: dust tight.

IPx7: immersion tight.

Wossa problem?

In general :

first numer indicates the dimension of objects that can intrude the enclosure (6 = dustproof) smaller number = bigger objects

second number : permeability for water (7 = waterproof for 30 minutes) smaller number = less permeability

see http://www.engineeringtalk.com/guides/ip67.html for more info

IP stands for ingress protection .First numeral for Dust and second for water .This is basically applicable for any enclosure.If ur device is to be submerged in water the enclosure should not allow harmful qty .of water ingression.Catch is here what is the harmful qty.?U can refer to IEC or BS

Did anyone actually bother to read what the original poster was asking? The spec on IP67 and the test requirements for setting up and conducting the test are located in the standards I mentioned.

Off the top of my head (from the slightly older standard AS 1939-1990), the test duration is 30 minutes in an immersion tank of water with the product under test located 0.15m below the surface and 1m from the bottom. Any ingress of water should not allow tracking across insulating parts, accumulate near the cable end, or be sufficient to interfere with the correct operation or safety of the equipment. Their may be slight differences in the new standards, but they wont be major (generally they only change some of the wording, to alter the meaning). I dont know what the nearest standards body is to you where you could obtain a copy, although you can purchase .PDF copies of the standards thru standards Australia.

I used to do this for a living at an electrical safety testing laboratory in NZ. Interestingly enough the test for IPX6 (strong jets of water from a fire hose) is actually harsher in many cases (100l/min for atleast 3 minutes) due to the high pressure.