Wha Is The Impact Rating ( IK Code) Of Solar Street Light

IK Code Definition​

IK Code is the degrees of protection provided by enclosures for electrical equipment against external mechanical impacts. The test is applicable to the external mechanical impact of the enclosures have special requirements for the level of protection. Before the emergence of the IK code, the third numeric code would also often be added to the protection level to indicate its level of impact protection, such as IP65 (9), with brackets to distinguish it from the code of IP protection level, but was later eliminated internationally and marked with the IK code alone, and is still in use today.

As for the IK level test of the street light, because it is exported to Europe and America, and it is a project tendered by the local government, so the IK test report of the street light is required.

In the European standard for Lighting fixture, marked with the requirements of the IK test. The different IK ratings relate to the ability of an enclosure to resist impact energy levels measured in joules (J). IEC62262 specifies how the enclosure must be mounted for testing. the atmospheric conditions required, the quantity and distribution of the test impacts and the impact hammer to be used for each level of IK rating. The IK test applicate on lighting luminaires test according to IEC60598 (GB7000) and IEC60068-2-75 (GB2423.55).