Konoa Aluminium Black Bollard Light with Spike

The 3 W Konoa is the one to buy when you want to see the path, not the light. Garden lighting is over-specified more often than under-specified, and the usual result is a row of bright points that leave everything between them darker by contrast. At 285 lm at 3000K, 275 lm at 4000K and 300 lm at 5500K, this is a fitting that marks an edge, washes a low planting bed and lets your eyes stay adjusted to the dark. It is also the least expensive way into the range, which means you can afford the number of fittings that actually makes a garden read well.

A 600 mm bollard on a spike

The column stands 600 mm and the body is aluminium with a poly powder-coated black finish. The spike base is the whole point: it drives into soil rather than needing a concrete footing, so you can place it, live with it for a week, and move it when the planting grows in. Black is the right colour for a fitting this size — it disappears against mulch and foliage in daylight and does the work at night.

⚠ It is 24 V DC. Much of the range around it is 12 V.

This is the thing to get right before anything else. Konoa runs on 24 V DC and needs a suitable 24 V DC LED driver. A great many Havit garden fittings — the Tivah bollards and spike lights it sits beside in this catalogue — are 12 V DC. The two are not interchangeable and they must not share a driver: put a 24 V fitting on a 12 V supply and it will not run properly, and the reverse is worse. If you are extending an existing low-voltage garden run, check what the driver actually is before you order. And do not connect the fitting directly to 240 V under any circumstances — that is a job for the driver, not for the light.

Built-in LED, and what that means later

• The LED is built in and sealed. There is no globe to buy, none to fail in three years, and none to fit incorrectly — but equally, there is nothing to swap if you later want a different character of light. Choose the output at purchase, because the fitting is what it is.
• Tri-colour: 3000K, 4000K and 5500K from the one unit. On a small garden fitting 3000K is almost always right; the cooler settings suit paving and rendered walls more than planting.
• IP65, which covers rain and hose spray — this is a fitting for a garden bed, not for a spot where water stands.
• 3-year replacement warranty.

Lights For You would rather you bought six of these than three of something brighter — spacing does more for a garden than wattage, and we are happy to work the layout through with you.

Coastal siting — Havit’s condition

Havit’s installation instructions for this fitting state that aluminium fittings should not be installed within 5 km of any salt water environment. That is a condition on where the fitting may go, and it sits beside the IP rating rather than inside it: a fitting can be rated for direct rain and still fall outside this rule, because the issue is salt carried in the air rather than water landing on the surface. If your site is inside that zone, talk to us before you specify it — Lights For You can point you at a fitting whose material Havit does not name here.

Earthing and protection class

This fitting runs on 24 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.