Tivah Antique Brass Up & Down Wall Light

This is the up/down Tivah in solid brass with an antique finish: one fitting, two heads, one washing the wall upward and one down, on a matching brass backing plate with a high-output reflector behind each lamp. The up/down form is the reason to choose it — a single wiring point produces the symmetrical hourglass of light that most people picture when they imagine a wall light on a pillar, and it does it without two fittings and two cable runs.

The choice to make

Three part numbers, and the difference is electrical rather than cosmetic:

• HV1095T — 240 V GU10 with switchable globes stepping through 3 W, 5 W and 7 W per head, so output is set at install rather than at the checkout.
• HV1097GU10T — 240 V GU10 at a fixed 5 W per head: 2 × 270 lm at 3000K, 2 × 285 lm at 4000K, 2 × 300 lm at 5500K.
• HV1097MR16T — 12 V DC MR16 at 5 W per head with the same output, requiring a separate 12 V DC LED driver.

Read those figures as per head. The datasheet writes them as 2 × because each of the two lamps produces that output, and comparing a 2 × 300 lm fitting against a single-head 300 lm fitting on the raw number would flatter the wrong one.

Where it works

• Driveway and gate pillars, throwing light up the pillar and down onto the surface.
• Either side of a garage door, spaced so the scallops meet.
• Exposed facades — at IP65 it needs no eave over it.
• Coastal and heritage exteriors, where solid brass is specified over aluminium.

Specifying it

The fitting is IP65, so weather exposure is within its rating, and the body is solid brass rather than a coated alloy — it develops a patina outdoors instead of chalking, which is why it is the version chosen near salt air. Regular washing down is still required; Havit excludes tea staining from the warranty.

Both GU10 versions run on 240 V AC and wire straight to mains. The MR16 version is a low-voltage fitting: it takes a suitable 12 V DC LED driver, and because it carries two lamps the load on that driver is double a single-head fitting's — size it for the total and wire multiple fittings in parallel. It cannot sit more than 25 m from its driver, and the supply must stay within 5% of nominal, or the warranty is void. None of the three is dimmable with the globes supplied. Globes are replaceable, with the socket ceiling differing by version — 35 W on a 240 V GU10, 20 W on a 12 V MR16, and that is per lamp rather than per fitting. Every Tivah we stock carries a 3-year replacement warranty, and Lights For You can size a driver for an MR16 run if you tell us how many fittings share it.