Tivah Solid Copper TRI Colour Double

Wear gloves when you install it. That instruction is on Havit's own sheet for this range — when installing copper fittings, gloves must be worn to avoid oils transferring to the fitting — and on a twin-head unit there is twice as much raw copper to mark. Skin oil does not wipe off solid copper. It sets as a print that ages at a different rate from the metal around it, so a fitting handled bare-handed can carry visible fingerprints permanently. It is the cheapest possible precaution and the one most often skipped.

Two heads, one hole, one cable — and 10 W

Both heads tilt through 90° and swivel through 270° independently, so a single fitting can light a driveway one way and a garden bed the other. The load is the thing to get right: each head carries its own 5 W MR16, so the fitting draws 10 W. Havit's specification for this model records the lamp wattage as 2 x 5 W and the output as 2 x 270 lm at 3000K, 2 x 285 lm at 4000K and 2 x 300 lm at 5500K — 540, 570 or 600 lm across the fitting. Six of them on one run is 60 W, and a driver chosen on the single-head figure will be undersized. The two heads are wired in parallel, so a failed globe does not take the other out.

Solid copper, ageing in two directions at once

The body is solid copper and the datasheet describes it as copper that will age over time. It starts bright pink-orange and moves through bronze to a dark brown outdoors. On a twin-head fitting the two heads often end up marginally different in tone, because the one facing weather patinates faster than the sheltered one. That is normal for the metal and evens out over a few years. There is no lacquer to fail and no plating to wear through, which is the argument for solid copper in the first place.

Colour, supply and the conditions attached to cover

• Both globes are tri-colour, set individually at the globe: cover off anti-clockwise, glass out, switch on the side. Preset to 3000K, which is nearly always the right choice against copper.
• The beam belongs to the globes — the supplied MR16s are 120° floods, and narrower MR16s turn the fitting into a pair of spots.
• 12 V DC from a suitable 12 V DC LED driver. Do not connect the fitting directly to 240 V.
• Within 25 m of the driver, supply within ±5% of 12 V — Havit states both as warranty conditions.
• Not dimmable. 2 m of reinforced cable, joints soldered and sealed watertight. Do not force a head past its stop; the internal cable tangles and shorts, and that is excluded from cover.

IP65, CRI above 80, and a 3-year replacement warranty.

Lights For You keeps the whole Tivah bollard family in stock, so if you want twin heads in copper on the driveway and singles in the same finish along the path, we can make the run match.