Highlite Aluminium Black 600mm

The Highlite 600 is a 600 mm surface-mounted bollard in poly powder-coated black aluminium, with a sealed tri-colour LED behind a frosted Perspex diffuser. It bolts to a hard surface rather than pushing into soil, and Havit sells it in two electrical forms.

Two part numbers, two protection classes

Havit splits the protection class by supply. HV1625T-BLK-240V runs on 240 V AC mains, is Protection Class 1 and requires an earth — the installer connects the earth first, then live and neutral. HV1625T-BLK-24V is Protection Class 3, needs no earth, and must be run from a suitable 24 V DC LED driver. ⛔ Havit is explicit that it must not be connected direct to 240 V. Buy the part number matching the circuit you have.

24 W or 18 W, and only one of those has a published output

The LED is a 24 W tri-colour built-in module, not user-replaceable — no globe, no lamp holder. ⚠ A second switch inside the head also sets it to 18 W. Havit's published figures are the 24 W ones — 1900 lm at 3000K, 1970 lm at 4000K and 2040 lm at 5500K, so 5500K is the brightest setting. ⛔ Havit's current documents publish no lumen figure for the 18 W setting, so treat every number here as the 24 W case only. Beam angle is 120°, CRI >80, SDCM <5, UGR <29, lamp expectancy >30,000hrs. It is not dimmable. Both switches sit under the head, reached by loosening the Allen screws in the side of the post; it ships set to 3000K.

Siting: IP65, IK08, and 5 km back from salt water

The body is IP65 and IK08, a useful impact class at shin height. ⚠ It is aluminium, and Havit states that aluminium and 304 stainless fittings must not be installed within 5 km of any salt water environments — so this is not a coastal fitting whatever its weather rating says. On the 24 V DC version Havit also requires the voltage at the fitting to stay within ±5% of the rated supply, or the warranty is void.

Mounting it — and four conditions that void the warranty

It is surface mounted on a Ø113 mm base plate, supplied attached and released by removing the four Allen screws in the side of the post. ⛔ Each of Havit's conditions is a warranty condition: the base plate must sit on concrete or a concrete pad and must not be installed below ground level; every hole in the base plate, including the cable entry, must be siliconed, with silicone also run around the fitting at ground level; the supplied screws are mild steel and must be replaced with a higher grade wherever water can reach them; and a non-circular cable must be fixed at the gland or the IP rating and the warranty are both lost. Keep all o-rings and seals seated and use all four fixing holes. Havit lists the HV1607 bollard spike for soft ground and the HV162X-CI anchor bolt set for hard surfaces; both are stocked here. This is fixed wiring: a licensed electrician to AS/NZS 3000 must install it with the circuit isolated, wired in parallel. Every figure here was taken by Lights For You from Havit's current data sheet and its dated February 2022 installation instructions for HV1625T and HV1626T, both stating a 3 Years Replacement warranty.