Tivah Antique Brass TRI Colour Double

Two aimable heads on one metre-long stem, in a finish that starts where the others end up. The antique treatment is a darkened coating over solid brass, so this fitting arrives looking weathered rather than arriving bright and taking a couple of years to get there. That is its appeal, and it comes with a caveat Havit states about the range rather than hiding: a solid brass fitting with an additional coating may tarnish through that coating when it is installed outdoors. On a twin-head fitting there is simply more coated surface for that to happen on, so buy it because you want the colour now, not because you expect it to be fixed forever.

Why two heads, and what it costs the driver

Each head tilts through 90° and swivels through 270° on its own, so one fitting can wash a driveway in one direction and a bed in the other from a single hole in the ground and a single cable. The cost is load. Each head carries its own 5 W MR16, so the fitting draws 10 W — a run of six is a 60 W load, and a driver sized on the single-head figure will be short. Havit's specification records the lamp wattage for this model as 2 x 5 W and the output as 2 x 270 lm at 3000K, 2 x 285 lm at 4000K and 2 x 300 lm at 5500K, which is 540, 570 or 600 lm across the fitting. The heads are wired in parallel, so one globe failing leaves the other lit.

The stem is the reason it is a bollard

The spike is 1000 mm long and 23 mm across. Buried or sleeved to the depth you choose, it stands the heads near knee height — path and driveway territory, not uplighting. Set that height before the cable run is closed up, because the lead exits the base of the column.

Colour, supply and the warranty conditions

• Both globes are tri-colour and each is set at the globe itself — cover off anti-clockwise, glass out, switch on the side. Preset to 3000K, and on a dark antique finish the warm setting almost always reads better than 5500K.
• The beam belongs to the globes. The supplied MR16s are 120° floods; narrower MR16s turn the fitting into a pair of spots.
• 12 V DC from a suitable 12 V DC LED driver. Do not connect the fitting directly to 240 V.
• 25 m maximum from the driver, supply within ±5% of 12 V — both stated as warranty conditions.
• Not dimmable. 2 m of reinforced cable, joints soldered and sealed watertight. Never force a head past its stop; the internal cable twists and shorts, and that is excluded.

IP65, CRI above 80, and a 3-year replacement warranty.

Send your run length and fitting count to Lights For You before you order the driver — with twin-head fittings the 10 W figure and the 25 m limit are what decide it, and both are easy to miss.

Earthing and protection class

This fitting runs on 12 V DC and is Protection Class 3 — no earth is required at the fitting. The isolation comes from the LED driver rather than from an earth conductor, and the fitting must never be connected directly to 240 V.