Pelare LED Pillar Light 12w CCT Black Havit Lighting HV1699T-BLK-SQ

Pelare LED Pillar Light 12w CCT Black

A pillar light sits on a pier, post or wall and marks a boundary, an entrance or a driveway. It is as much a piece of the architecture as a light source, because it is seen as an object in daylight and as a point of light after dark.

That double role is worth keeping in mind when choosing one. A fitting that suits the house by day and one that lights the entrance properly by night are not automatically the same fitting, and the compromise usually falls on the lighting rather than the look.

Height and spacing set how it reads along a boundary. Consistent fittings at consistent intervals read as deliberate; the same fittings at varying heights read as accidental, however good each one is on its own.

Light output and colour

This is a tri-colour fitting: the colour temperature is selected at installation rather than fixed at manufacture. It runs at 3000K (700lm), 4000K (750lm), 5500K (730lm).

That is genuinely useful rather than a specification-sheet feature. Colour temperature is the setting people most often get wrong and most regret, and it cannot be judged from a showroom - it depends on the surfaces in the room and on the light around it. A switchable fitting lets the decision be made in place, and changed if it is wrong.

⚠ Set every fitting on a run to the same value. Mixed colour temperatures in one space are obvious and look like a fault, which is the one way a tri-colour fitting can make a result worse rather than better.

Colour rendering is CRI>80 CRI, which describes how faithfully colours appear under the light. It matters most where the light falls on planting, timber, brick or stone, all of which look flat under a poor-rendering source.

The beam spread is 120°.

Where it can be installed

At IP65 this fitting is rated for full outdoor exposure - rain, hosing and weather.

⚠ A weather rating is not a corrosion rating, and the two are confused constantly. The IP number describes water and dust ingress; what survives a coastal site is the material and the finish, and that is the thing to check within a few kilometres of the sea.

It carries an IK10 impact rating, which is what matters where a fitting can be stepped on, driven over or knocked.

It is made from aluminium.

Powering and installing it

Plan the cable route before anything is fixed. It is the part of an installation that cannot be changed afterwards without undoing the rest of it, and it is the reason otherwise finished jobs get left half done.

Rated life is >30,000hrs.

Before you order

Two checks save most of the problems that show up after an installation is finished. The first is where the fitting will actually be seen from: a light chosen for how it looks in a product photograph is being judged from a viewpoint nobody will ever stand in, and the same fitting can be discreet from the house and glaring from the street.

The second is what else is going in around it. A single fitting is rarely the whole scheme, and matching colour temperature and finish across everything in a space matters more to the result than the specification of any one item in it. Mixed colour temperatures in particular read as a fault rather than as a choice.

If you are unsure whether this suits what you are lighting, our team at Lights For You will talk it through against the actual space rather than the specification sheet.

Frequently asked questions

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