Vertex Aluminium Black Bollard Light with Spike

This is the wider Vertex, and the only thing that changes is the column. At Ø70 mm against the HV1511T's Ø60 mm, it carries the same 3 W built-in LED, the same 110 lm at 3000K, 120 lm at 4000K and 115 lm at 5500K, the same 120° beam and the same 600 mm height. We would rather say that plainly than manufacture a difference: the choice between the two Vertex sizes is about how the fitting sits in the landscape, not about how much light you get.

When the extra 10 mm is the right call

Slim columns read as elegant against fine planting and gravel, and as flimsy against sandstone, rendered walls, wide aggregate driveways and mature shrubs. The Ø70 mm body has the visual weight to hold a position beside heavier hard landscaping, and it is the better choice where the fitting sits in open lawn with nothing near it to give a sense of scale. It is also marginally more forgiving of a knock — the aluminium section is thicker — though both are rated IK08 and neither is a bollard you should site where cars manoeuvre.

⚠ 24 V DC, and the colour is chosen at installation

The Vertex takes 24 V DC from a suitable 24 V DC LED driver. This matters more than it sounds: a lot of the Havit garden range around it runs at 12 V DC, and the two cannot share a driver or a cable run. Do not connect the fitting directly to 240 V — the driver does that job. The tri-colour selection is made in the same operation: the neutral cables are labelled, and your electrician connects 3000K or 5500K, or joins both for 4000K. That joint is then soldered and sealed, so the colour is a decision you make once.

What the sheet insists on, and what it gives you

• 25 m maximum from the LED driver, with the supply within ±5%. Havit voids the warranty outside that allowance, which makes it a planning constraint rather than a footnote.
• IP65 for rain and hose spray, a 1000 mm tail, and parallel wiring so one fitting failing does not take the run with it.
• Built-in LED, sealed, with a lamp expectancy over 30,000 hours and no globe to source. Not dimmable.
• 210 mm spike — soil, not paving — and a 3 Years Replacement warranty.

If you are ordering a mixed run, note that the two Vertex sizes look deliberate together in a garden that changes character along its length; Lights For You will help you split the count if that is the effect you are after.