HV1691T-BLK-240V - Otaner Aluminium Black Tri Colour LED Bollard Light

The Otaner is an 800 mm surface-mounted bollard with a tri-colour built in LED, in poly powder coated black aluminium behind a clear and opal glass diffuser. It runs on 240 V AC mains, and the colour temperature is selected inside the head at installation rather than from a remote or an app.

⚠ Read the two ratings before you decide where it goes

This bollard is IP54 and IK04, both lower than people assume of an outdoor fitting. IP54 is a splash rating, not a jet rating: dust protected and protected against water splashing from any direction, but not rated for a hose aimed at it or for ground that holds water after rain. IK04 sits near the bottom of the IK01–IK10 impact scale. A bollard lives at shin height in a garden bed, exactly where a mower deck, a wheelbarrow wheel and a line trimmer all pass. Site it where it will be walked past rather than knocked, out of the line of a sprinkler head, and off ground that puddles.

The light, and how its colour is set

The LED is built in, so there is no globe to buy and no socket to match. It draws 10 W and is tri-colour: 3000K at 610 lm, 4000K at 620 lm and 5500K at 615 lm. The output barely moves across that range, so the choice is about the character of the light — and 4000K is the brightest of the three, not the coolest. The spread is 120° and colour rendering is CRI >80. It leaves the factory set to 3000K; to change it, Havit's instruction is to remove the top by twisting anti-clockwise, move the switch located on the PCB, then twist the cover back with the seals still in place. ⚠ And this fitting is not dimmable, so plan the circuit accordingly.

Supply, wiring and the junction box

Input is 240 V AC and it is Protection Class 1, so an earth is required. Havit requires installation by a qualified electrician in accordance with AS/NZS 3000, and fittings are wired in parallel. There is no driver and no transformer anywhere in this product. Two conditions on the fitting's IP-rated junction box carry warranty consequences: if your cable is not circular you must fix the cable entry to maintain the IP rating, and all o-rings and seals must be in place.

Mounting, and the parts of the install that void the warranty

It is ground — surface mounted, and the base plate must be installed on concrete or a concrete pad. It must not be installed under ground level. Havit requires that all holes including the cable entry are siliconed and that silicone is also applied around the fitting at ground level, stating that failure to do this will void the warranty. One more is easy to miss: the screws supplied are mild steel and must be replaced with a higher grade where they may be affected by water, which in a garden bed is likely. On siting, Havit's wording is that aluminium and 304SS fittings must not be installed within 5 km of any salt water environments, and this bollard is aluminium.

Where these figures come from

Lights For You takes these figures for HV1691T-BLK-240V from the HV1691T data sheet (AUG24), the shared HV1691T/HV1692W installation instructions (SEP24), and Havit's own page for this part number, which states a 3 Years Replacement Warranty for items ordered after 01/01/22.