Groundline Driveover 120mm Drive Over Uplighter Set of Twelve with Transformer and Drainage Sleeves

Rated to be driven over by a car, which means a cast bronze body and a 10mm toughened lens rather than the 4mm one on a walkover fitting.

In ground fittings are the tidiest thing you can put in a garden and the easiest to install badly. The failure is almost never the fitting. It is water sitting around the fitting because nobody put a drainage pit under it. Every set here ships with a drainage sleeve for each fitting and a note telling you to fill the bottom 150mm with 20mm clean gravel, and if you do that these will outlast the paving. If you do not, the IP68 rating will hold for about two winters and then it will not.

Specification

• Dimensions: 120mm diameter, 130mm deep, flush trim ring
• Materials: cast bronze body, 316 stainless trim, 10mm toughened glass lens
• Finish: natural bronze or brushed stainless trim
• Light source: 9W integral LED module
• Light output: 12 fittings at 700 lumens each
• Colour temperature: 2700K very warm white
• Beam angle: 15 degree, 30 degree and 60 degree lenses supplied
• Power: 12V SELV from a garden transformer, safe to cut and join outdoors
• Ingress protection: IP68, rated for permanent immersion
• Cable: 116m of 1.5mm low voltage cable, 2m tail on every fitting
• Warranty: 10 years on the brass body, 5 years on the LED and driver
• Load rating: 2000kg drive over
• Set contains 12 fittings
• Transformer: 600W toroidal with a photocell and timer
• Drainage sleeve supplied for every fitting
• Lens temperature: under 60 degrees, safe to walk on barefoot
• Weight: approximately 37.8 kilograms for the set

In the box

• 12 x 120mm drive over uplighter in ground uplighters
• 12 x drainage sleeves with a gravel specification
• 36 x 15, 30 and 60 degree lenses
• 1 x toroidal transformer with a photocell and a seven day timer
• 116m of 1.5mm two core low voltage cable
• 16 x IP68 waterproof connectors
• A setting out drawing for paving and for turf

Installation

This runs on 12V, which is the reason to choose a low voltage garden system in the first place. The cable can be laid in a shallow trench or clipped along a fence without armoured conduit, it can be cut and joined with waterproof connectors outdoors, and a spade through it is an inconvenience rather than an emergency. The transformer itself is the only part that touches mains, so that is the only part an electrician needs to look at. Bury cable at least 100mm deep, run it along a line you will remember, and leave a loop of slack at every fitting so you can move things next year when the planting has grown.

When to buy

Garden lighting is bought in spring and installed in a hurry. It is much easier to dig a cable run in February when the borders are bare and the ground is soft than in May when everything is in leaf and you are trying not to stand on it. Order in winter, get the cable in, and the first warm evening of the year is ready for you rather than a job list.