Konoa Aluminium Black Bollard Light with Spike

The 9 W Konoa is the top of the range and the one that needs the most thought about placement. It produces 945 lm at 3000K, 1010 lm at 4000K and 1035 lm at 5500K from a 600 mm column — comfortably the brightest of the three, and the only one where where you put it matters as much as how many you buy. That is not a criticism of the fitting. It is the difference between a driveway edge that reads clearly from a car and a row of bright objects at the eye level of anyone sitting on the terrace.

Where the extra output belongs

Wide things. A driveway edge, a broad planted bed, the turning circle, a boundary you want defined from the house. Because a 600 mm bollard throws down and outwards, the extra wattage widens the pool of light rather than pushing it further along a path — so the 9 W earns its money where the thing you are lighting is wide, and wastes it where the thing is merely long. On a narrow path the 7 W usually gives a better result for less money and less glare.

⚠ 24 V DC — check this before you order

Konoa runs on 24 V DC and must be used with a suitable 24 V DC LED driver. A large part of the Havit garden range standing next to it — the Tivah bollards and spike lights — runs on 12 V DC, and the two cannot share a driver or a run. At 9 W each these also draw meaningfully more than the smaller models, so the driver needs sizing for the number of fittings as well as the right voltage. Do not connect the fitting directly to 240 V.

The rest of the specification

• Aluminium, poly powder-coated black, on a soil spike — no footing, and repositionable while you settle the layout.
• Built-in LED, sealed and not replaceable. No globe to buy and none to fail separately from the fitting, backed by a 3-year replacement warranty.
• Tri-colour — 3000K, 4000K and 5500K. This is the one model in the range where output does rise with colour temperature across all three settings, from 945 lm to 1035 lm. The difference is under 10% and not worth choosing on.
• IP65 — rain and hose spray in a planted bed.

Lights For You will happily tell you the 7 W is enough if it is — the 9 W is the right answer for wide spaces and the wrong one for a narrow path, and we would rather you got that decision right than spent more.

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.