Landscape Lighting Column
Installation Specifications

Landscape Lighting Gate Columns: Drive Gate
(2-1/4" -thick gates under 12' overall width and not mounted to steel frames)

The Columns are shipped as 3-sided assemblies. The net width of your Drive Gate is configured to the width between the installed posts, less the dimensions of the columns.  Whether you are using 6x6 steel or wood posts, the columns are designed to slip into place around your existing posts, held snug to the post dimension by filler blocks mounted to the inside of the column. 

Before securing the fourth side, secure the Column to the inner post using the provided mounting bolts and the pre-bored locations found on the solid sides of the Columns.  Using these bores as guides, bore through the steel post wall when using steel posts, and secure the Column by using the bolts and lock-nuts provided. This is close to the top of the steel post and accessible. (Note: it helps to use a 1/4" or 5/16" dia. Tungston drill bit to bore through the steel post walls.) With the Column secured, the fourth side, usually facing the property, is secured to the column assembly.    Prebored screw holes mark the location.  Screws and wood plugs are provided with the Columns. (It is best to fit your wood plugs using exterior wood glue). If you want to insure this joint remains tight, use a bead of TiteBond 3 glue along these edges before screwing to place.  Keeping in mind, however, that this requires you to lift the Column away from the steel post in the unlikely event it should ever need to be removed. 

For Lighted Columns:  Before securing the fourth side to the column, insure your low-voltage wiring is in place and fed out at the bottom of the Column, where it will be junctioned to the power source by your contractor.

The Pedestrian or Wood Drive Gates hinge to the Column in exactly the same way they hinge to a normal post.  Drive gat6es are provided with 4-1/2" butt hinges, with the gates pre-marked, but the column hinge-holes left to be set on the site by the installer.  This procedure is covered in detail under gthe Installation Guide. 

With the gates himnged in place, the last step is to set the Post Cap over the column and secure it in place with the pre-bored holes on the cap apron.  The cap should be oriented so these holes are set to the solid faces of the Columns.

(Gates over 12' overall width and mounted to steel frames)

Drive Gates mounting to steel frames will require the 6x6 steel posts be configured with steel T-Bar straps that are welded to the steel posts.  These small flat-iron extensions are normally about 2-1/2" wide by 1/8-1/4" thick, and approximately 3-1/2" long.  Two per post.  The location of these are called out in the drawings provided by CPW of the steel frame dimensions.  Their excact dimensions are verified from the field once the steel posts and the steel frames have been installed by the automation contractor.  With this dimension, we make a small mortise in the Columns that allow them to slip over the steel posts and fit to the T-bar extensions.  The T-Bar extensions are long enough to extend proud of the Column approximately 1/2", allowing for the knuckle barrel hinge on the steel frame to weld to the ends of the T-bars.  This also insures that the entire bearing load of the wood gate and steel frame are drawn from the steel post and not the Wood Columns.

Landscape Lighting Garden Columns

The Garden Column was designed primarily as an architecural lighting source within the landscape. These require 4x4 or 6x6 wood or steel posts set into the grade and extending approximately 2-3 feet above ground.  The Column arrives as a compete four-sided assembly, slipping over the top of the wood post.  The wiring is fed out under the bottom of the Column and junctioned to a low-volateg power source. 

The Column is secured to the post using the pre-bored screw holes and wood screws.  The Column Cap slips over the Column and is secured using the pre-bored holes and screws.  Access to the fixture or plexigleas sheets that back the upper grid pattern is allowed by remiving the Cap.   

The Hinkley fixture sets to a shelf, illuminating upward.  The transformer has been upgraded to a smaller unit. 

Specifications for the Hinkley Fixture:

IUL 516-H Bronze
50 Watt
Aluminum Oxide.  bronze
Lid Diameter: 4-1/8"
Total ht: 4-3/4"

Bulb:
TRU-AIM TITAN EXN
50 MR16/T/FL40

Transformer:  EN-1260-RB-AR
12 Volt (20-60 Watt)
6-1/4" x 1-5/8" x 1-1/4"
Electronic Transformer
to 60 watt.

Here, we look at the top of a typical column, showing the mounting strap.  The column cap is mounted to the bosy of the column by a threaded bolt through the top of the column cao, threading into the mounting strap.

Here we look at a Wall-Top lighted column upside down, showing the bottom mounting straps.  The light fixture and supporting shelf are easily removed, gaining access to the inside bottom of the column where masonry bolts are set to the strap and into the  stone or masonry walls or pillars.