HV3111T-WHT-12V - White Small Square Recessed LED Step Light

This is the smallest of Havit's recessed square step lights — a 1 W built-in LED behind a white powder-coated aluminium faceplate, designed to disappear into a wall and mark the edge of a tread rather than light the room. At roughly 30–35 lumens it is a wayfinding light, not a task light, and that is the buying decision: if you want to see the stair, this is right; if you want to see the whole stairwell, you want something several times brighter.

The choice to make: is 1 W enough?

A 1 W step light works when it is one of several, spaced down a run, and when the surrounding surfaces are pale enough to bounce light onto the tread. Used alone on a dark timber stair it will read as a glowing marker with almost no spill. Plan the positions as a set — every second or third riser, or one at each landing — rather than treating a single fitting as the answer.

Where it works

• Internal stairwells in a plasterboard wall, where the supplied clips let it fix without a canister.
• Hallways and corridors in an apartment, mounted low as an overnight guide light instead of leaving a ceiling light on.
• Sheltered undercover entries — IP54 covers splashing, so it suits a porch with a roof over it, not an exposed wall.
• Retail and hospitality fit-outs where a discreet 105 mm-class faceplate is preferred over visible exit-path fittings.

Specifying it

This is a 12 V DC fitting and requires a 12 V DC LED driver. It must never be connected directly to 240 V — that destroys the fitting instantly and takes the warranty with it. Keep each light within 25 m of its driver; beyond that Havit does not honour the warranty, because voltage drop over a long low-voltage run shows up as dimming and colour shift. Size the driver for the total wattage of every fitting on the circuit, with headroom.

Tri-colour selectable at install across 3000K, 4000K and 5500K, and the LED is built in — no globe is needed and none can be fitted. It is not a dimmable fitting. Installation by a licensed electrician.

Backed by a 3-year replacement warranty.

Supplied by Lights For You — tell us how many risers you are lighting and we will work out the driver wattage for the whole run before you order.