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Originally Posted by jusmee
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That's not how IP codes work. A rating of 7 is not necessarily better than 6.
IP66 means "No ingress of dust; complete protection against contact (dust tight)" and "Water projected in powerful jets (12.5 mm nozzle) against the enclosure from any direction shall have no harmful effects."
IP67 means "No ingress of dust; complete protection against contact (dust tight)" and "Ingress of water
in harmful quantity shall not be possible when the enclosure is immersed in water
under defined conditions of pressure and time (up to 1 m of submersion)." (Emphasis mine.)
According to the Kobo website,
the H20 is designed to withstand immersion "for up to 30 minutes in up to 1 meter of water with port cover closed". It says nothing about high pressure situations like immersion in moving water or placing your device under a running tap (and, no, dropping an H20 in a bathtub or spilling a drink on it does not qualify as "moving water" in this context). And according to the IP ratings, it is only designed to prevent ingress of a "harmful quantity" of water, and unless the OP's device has started to malfunction from the few drops that managed to get underneath the USB cover, it seems to me that his H20 is working as intended.
So my advice to the OP is to stop placing your H20 under a running tap, because that's not what it's designed for. Have you contacted Kobo? What did they say?