Aries Up & Down LED Wall Light CCT 12w

The Aries is Havit’s up-and-down wall light in 316 stainless steel, sold here in polished stainless, black, white or antique brass and wired straight to 240 V mains. Two built-in LEDs throw a 60° beam up the wall and another down it, so a facade, an entry or a garage pier is lit by the wall itself rather than by a fitting you end up looking at.

Two 6 W emitters, and one figure for the whole fitting

Havit rates the Aries at 2 × 6 W, so the fitting draws 12 W in total. Its ordering table prints the output the same way — 2 × 448 lm, 2 × 576 lm and 2 × 534 lm — and that 2× prefix is Havit’s own marker for a twin-lamp fitting. Doubled out, it delivers 896 lm at 3000K, 1152 lm at 4000K and 1068 lm at 5500K. Those are the figures we publish, because they are the fitting’s total output: half of it goes up and half goes down.

4000K is the brightest setting, and that is not the obvious answer

Output does not climb steadily as the light gets cooler. 4000K is the brightest at 1152 lm; the coolest setting, 5500K, drops back to 1068 lm, and 3000K is the dimmest at 896 lm. On plenty of fittings the coolest setting is also the brightest, so it is worth checking per fitting rather than assuming.

You set the colour once, from inside the base

It is tri-colour — 3000K, 4000K or 5500K — on a slide switch inside the base of the fitting, shipped preset to 3000K. Reaching it means loosening the allen screws in the side and lifting the body off its base plate, so the choice gets made on the ladder rather than at the switchboard. The beam is a fixed 60°, not adjustable, and the fitting is not dimmable.

Mains only, and it needs an earth

There is one supply here: 240 V AC. It takes no driver and no transformer, and none is supplied. It is Class 1, so an earth is required — Havit’s instruction is to connect the earth first and then live and neutral. Where several sit on one run, they are wired in parallel.

Stainless steel needs cleaning, and the warranty says so

Havit is explicit that all 316 and 304 stainless steel fittings must be cleaned regularly to avoid tea staining, and that the warranty does not cover tea staining. It is maintenance, not a fault, and it is the one exclusion on this fitting’s own instructions. Sealing matters too: all o-rings and seals must be correctly in place to maintain the warranty, the screws must be tight so water cannot penetrate, and silicone goes around the edge of the fitting on install. Modifying the fitting voids the warranty. Havit backs it for 3 years, replacement, on items ordered after 01/01/2022.

What the drawing tells you, and what it does not

The body is Ø60 mm and it mounts on a base plate taking two Ø4 mm fixings around a Ø15 mm cable entry. Those are the only figures the drawing labels — the diameter symbol is the labelling — and the rest are printed without labelling which is height, which is width and which is the wall projection, so we publish no overall dimensions and no projection. It is IP65 behind clear glass, carries an IK08 impact rating and a rated life of >30,000 hrs. Lights For You stocks all four finishes and will check it against your wall and your circuit before you order.