Ovale Indoor LED Wall Light in Black, Black/Brass, White, White/Brass Havit Lighting - HV8080T

The Ovale is a surface-mounted indoor wall light built around a single 7 W built-in LED behind a polycarbonate diffuser, on an aluminium body that wires straight to 240 V mains. It is a wash rather than a spot: the 120° spread lays light along a wall instead of putting a pool of it on one object, which is what makes it a hallway, stairwell and bedside fitting rather than a picture light.

Decide the colour temperature before it goes on the wall

This is the one thing worth knowing before ordering. The Ovale is a tri-colour fitting offering 3000K, 4000K and 5500K, and it leaves the factory preset to 3000K. Changing that is not done from a wall switch or an app — Havit’s install sheet puts a small slide switch inside the fitting, reached only by loosening the allen screws on the side of the body and sliding the fitting back off its mounting bracket.

That is a two-minute job on a bench and a much less pleasant one on a mounted light at head height. Settle the colour temperature when you settle the position, and tell whoever is installing it — the default is warm, and nobody looks for that switch unless they are asked to.

Output, and why the numbers do not simply climb

The Ovale produces 400 lm at 3000K, 420 lm at 4000K and 410 lm at 5500K. The peak is in the middle, not at the coolest setting, so the common assumption that a cooler tri-colour setting is a brighter one is not true here. The three sit within about 5% of each other in any case — below what an eye reads as a difference — so the choice is about the character of the light, not the quantity. Colour rendering is quoted above CRI 80.

It takes an ordinary wall dimmer, and that is not true of everything in this range

The Ovale is Triac dimmable, so a conventional leading-edge wall dimmer controls it and the dimming lives where people expect to find it. Havit names the HV9625 LED Dimmer, rated to 300 W, as the compatible accessory on this fitting’s own data sheet, and we stock it. Worth flagging if you are specifying several indoor wall lights at once: some ranges build the dimming into the light and ignore a wall dimmer entirely, so the method does not reliably carry across a schedule.

Where it can go, and where it cannot

The rating is IP20. That means indoor, dry locations only: not a bathroom zone, not a covered patio or alfresco, and not any position that can catch driving rain or hose spray. If weather can reach it, this is the wrong fitting and a weather-rated exterior wall light is what is needed — ask us and we will point you at one. Impact resistance is IK08, a useful margin in a stairwell or corridor where a fitting gets knocked.

Installing it

The Ovale is a Class 1 fitting and requires an earth. It runs on 240 V AC, so there is no driver, no transformer and no globe to buy or source later — the LED is built in and is not replaceable. Installation is a licensed electrician’s job under AS/NZS 3000: the bracket comes off the body by loosening the allen screws and is fixed to the wall first, and the install sheet asks for the earth to be connected before live and neutral. Modifying the fitting voids the warranty.

Havit gives the dimensions as a drawing on the data sheet rather than as a labelled table, so instead of guessing which figure is the projection from the wall, check that drawing against your position before ordering. Projection decides whether a wall light clears a door swing, a bedhead or a stair handrail, and it is the measurement that gets a fitting returned.

Choosing a finish

Four finishes at one price, with identical output and identical everything else: black (HV8080T-BLK), white (HV8080T-WHT), and the two-tone black-and-brass (HV8080T-BLKBR) and white-and-brass (HV8080T-WHTBR). The body is aluminium in all four — the brass is part of the colourway, not a separate solid-brass component — so the decision is purely how the fitting should read against the wall. All four carry a three-year replacement warranty.

Lights For You reaches for the Ovale when a corridor or stairwell needs light on the walls rather than a fitting to look at, and we are happy to work through whether a 120° wash suits the position you have in mind.