Toldo Adjustable LED Inground Light CCT 3w 316 Stainless Steel Havit Lighting - HV1827T

An inground light spends its life in the one place a fitting is least happy — a hole in the ground that fills with water. The 3 W Toldo is the smallest of the three, dropping into a Ø98 mm hole, and it is the one to reach for where a full-size uplight would be too much: a single shrub, a rendered column, a step riser you want grazed rather than flooded, a house number lit from below.

Drainage is a warranty condition here, not advice

Havit's installation instructions put it in writing — adequate drainage must be allowed to prevent fittings from sitting in water for a long period of time, and if no drainage is allowed the warranty will be voided. The drawing beside it asks for a 100 mm space beneath the canister, 100 mm to 150 mm of crushed rock under that, and a slight decline on the finished ground so surface water runs away from the fitting rather than into it. The canister must also finish level with the ground; Havit voids the warranty if it does not. IP67 means the fitting survives temporary immersion. It is not a licence to leave it standing in a puddle.

What the 3 W gives you

The light source is a built-in LED — there is no globe and no socket, so nothing here is user-replaceable. Havit publishes its output as 270 lm at 3000K, 285 lm at 4000K and 300 lm at 5500K in a 30° beam. Note the direction of that: output climbs with colour temperature on this model, so 5500K is the brightest setting rather than the middle one, and the warm setting is the dimmest. Colour is chosen on a switch under a cap on the base of the fitting and leaves the factory set to 3000K. The head tilts through 20°, reached by removing the four nuts on the back, lifting the cover and glass and easing the head over — enough to lean a beam off vertical onto a trunk or a wall face, and the narrowest adjustment of the three Toldos.

Supply, and the parts that must stay on the cable

This is a 12 V DC fitting and it must be run from a suitable 12 V DC LED driver. Do not connect it directly to 240 V. Havit requires the voltage arriving at the fitting to be within ±5% or the warranty is void, so size the driver and the cable run for that and check the input voltage of every other fitting before you share a driver with it. Multiple fittings must be wired in parallel, and the fitting is polarity sensitive — connect it the wrong way round and it fails, and that failure is not covered. The anti-syphon valve and the male and female connector supplied on the 300 mm tail must both remain in place for the warranty to stand.

The 316 face, and what it asks of you

The cover is 316 stainless steel over an aluminium body finished black. Havit asks for regular cleaning on all 316 stainless fittings to stop tea staining forming, and states that tea staining is not covered by warranty; its HV9971 stainless steel maintenance kit is what it recommends for the job. Lights For You lists this Toldo with Havit's 3 Years Replacement warranty on items ordered after 01/01/2022, and every figure above is read from the HV1827T data sheet and the HV1827T / HV1828T / HV1829T installation instructions.