Led ip rated lamp bulb

[Farmelectrics]

We've got in work small Chinese hat type lamp posts around all walk ways at work they are 35 watt halogens and we are changing them to LEDs so when the boss man said we need an ip rated lamp bulb as he called it due to the moisture in the fitting I looked at him with some doudt as the halogens aren't ip rated one is the guy wrong as I think he is or is there such a thing your thoughts please

 

[Richard Burns]

Not much point in having the lamp IP rated if the fitting isn't, it is only water access to live connections you are trying to avoid. I would not use the LED lamps with the exposed SMD chips, but the ones with the glass fronts on (as most of them have now) should be fine, even if not IP rated.

I would have said that to get an IP rating on a lamp you would have to have one with no electrical connections since the lamp would be assessed as is with out a fitting. However you could not get water onto live connections because there is no power supply!

 

[Farmelectrics]

So Richard as I thought there's no such thing