Asker DC1311GR is a garden bollard shaped like an inverted L: a slender, rectangular cast-aluminium profile topped by a cantilevered head from which light falls straight down. The form is functional rather than decorative — the overhang pushes the beam clear of the post itself and lights a band of ground beside it, while the shielded source stays invisible to anyone looking from the side.
24 V supply — the fixture needs a driver
This is the one thing to plan before buying: Asker DC1311GR runs on 24 V DC and does not include a power supply. The installation needs an external, voltage-stabilised 24 V DC driver rated for the number of fixtures on the circuit. In return the fixture is protection class III — a safety extra-low-voltage (SELV) circuit with no earth conductor, which matters in a garden where the cable runs underground between planting and lawn. Selecting the driver and executing the installation are jobs for a suitably qualified person.
The light
Two LED modules draw 8.5 W between them. The modules themselves produce 1064 lumens, but with the shielding and downward aim 533 lm leaves the fixture — and that is the figure describing the real effect on a path. Luminaire efficacy is 62.7 lm/W, colour temperature 3000 K (warm white), CRI 80, and colour consistency falls inside a SDCM3 ellipse, so a row of bollards along a drive will glow in one tint without drifting pink or green. The LED module is suitable for dimming and, if ever needed, replaceable — by a qualified installer.
It does not pollute the sky
The ULOR figure is 0%: not one lumen goes above the horizontal. The BUG rating is B0-U1-G0 and the manufacturer classifies the fixture as dark-sky friendly. In practice that means the light lands where it is meant to — on the ground — instead of brightening a neighbour's windows and the sky above the plot.
Specification
- Type: garden bollard (post light fixture), integrated LED
- Manufacturer index: DC1311GR
- Colour: graphite (RAL 7016)
- Luminaire power: 8.5 W (LED modules 7.2 W)
- Luminaire flux: 533 lm; lamp flux: 1064 lm
- Luminaire efficacy: 62.7 lm/W
- Luminous intensity: 231 cd
- Colour temperature: 3000 K (warm white)
- CRI: 80; colour consistency SDCM3
- LED modules: 2
- Supply: 24 V DC — external stabilised driver required (not included)
- Protection class: III
- Ingress protection: IP65
- Impact resistance: IK10
- Dimensions: 85 × 20 × 11 cm
- Net / gross weight: 4.01 kg / 4.36 kg
- Box dimensions: 88 × 23 × 13 cm
- Rated life: L90B10 > 52,330 h (about 47 years at 3 hours a day)
- Operating temperature range: -30°C to +50°C
- Photobiological risk: RG0
- ULOR: 0%; BUG rating: B0-U1-G0
- Energy efficiency class: D
Materials and sealing
The body is powder-coated cast aluminium. The lens is transparent structured polycarbonate, UV stabilised — polycarbonate does not shatter when a stone flies out from under a mower, and the UV stabilisation prevents yellowing after a few seasons. Sealing comes from a silicone gasket and an EPDM cable gland. IP65 means fully dust-tight and resistant to water jets; IK10 means resistant to a 20 J impact.
Installation
The base has four ø8 mm holes at 18 × 50 mm spacing. The terminals take conductors up to 2 × 4 mm² and allow the circuit to be looped through to the next fixture (also 2 × 4 mm²), while the gland accepts round cable of 5–12 mm diameter. The manufacturer offers a concreting anchor (1907ZX0009), ground anchor (1908GA0009), concrete-foundation adapter (1909GA0010) and mounting adapters 3081XX0009 and 3090GA0009 separately — none is included in the box and each must be ordered on its own.
Colour versions
The same bollard comes in seven finishes: aluminium (AL, RAL 9006), black (BL, 9005), cement grey (CG, 7033), copper brown (CB, 8004), corten (CS, approx. 8011), graphite (GR, 7016 — this version) and grey beige (GB, 7006). The Asker family also includes a shorter 55 cm bollard and wall lights, so a whole entrance area can be lit in one design language.
About the manufacturer
Norlys AS of Oslo specialises in outdoor lighting designed for the Scandinavian climate — with the emphasis on resistance to damp, frost and salt. The manufacturer notes that condensation appearing from time to time inside outdoor fixtures is a natural phenomenon and not a fault.
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