LED Inground and Underground Lights for Outdoor Landscape Projects
1x5W COB LED underground light with stainless steel cover
Comlite manufactures LED inground lights for driveways, pathways, plazas, decking and facade lighting. The range covers 1W marker lights through 24W high-power fittings, in COB and SMD, with fixed or adjustable beam angles, round and square covers, and single colour, RGB or RGBW control.
An inground light lives in the worst position an outdoor fitting can occupy: set into the ground, standing in water after every rain, and driven over. Two decisions decide whether it survives — the IP rating of the seal, and whether the fitting can drain. Get those right and the rest is a matter of output and beam angle.
Quick Selection Guide
By output: 1-3W marker and accent lights for pathways and decking edges; 6-12W for driveway borders and general area lighting; 18-24W high power fittings for tree uplighting and tall facades.
By light source:COB gives a single intense beam with no dot pattern, suited to accent and uplighting; SMD spreads output wider and suits area and step lighting.
By beam:fixed beam for repeatable rows and grid layouts; adjustable beam when the fitting has to be aimed after installation.
By rating:IP67 for covered or well-drained positions; IP68 where the fitting will sit in standing water.
Comlite manufactures LED inground lights — also called LED ground lights, underground lights or recessed uplights — for pathways, plazas, decks, facades and landscape schemes. Our range covers high power and low power models, COB and SMD light sources, adjustable beam angles and stainless steel covers rated for drive-over applications.
Inground lights are specified more often than almost any other landscape fitting, and they fail more often too. The reason is simple: a light set into the ground sits in standing water, carries foot or vehicle load, and cannot be serviced without breaking the surface. This page covers the four specification decisions that determine whether an inground installation lasts three seasons or fifteen years.
IP67 vs IP68 for Inground Lights
The right rating depends on how much water the fitting will actually sit in.
1x5W COB LED underground light with stainless steel cover
IP67 — 防临时浸入至 1 米. Appropriate for most landscape inground lights in well-drained ground.
IP68 — 防连续浸入超过 1 米. Specify this where water pools: poor drainage, irrigation-heavy schemes, pond edges, or any location that floods seasonally.
Our standard inground range is IP67. For pond edges, water features and poorly drained sites, 使用 our IP68 underwater rangeinstead — the same engineering, rated for permanent submersion.
High Power vs Low Power: Choosing Output
This is where most specifications go wrong, and usually in the same direction.
Under-specifyingleaves a scheme that looks impressive on paper and invisible at night — a 1W marker light will not uplight a mature tree. Over-specifyingcreates glare, washes out the architecture and multiplies both cost and heat load.
1-3w— marker and wayfinding lights along paths and steps
3-6w— general pathway and deck lighting, low-level planting
6-12w— uplighting for small trees, walls and signage
12W+— large trees, building facades, statement columns
See our high power LED inground lights and low power SMD inground lights.
COB vs SMD Light Source
COB (chip-on-board)packs many LED dies into a single emitting surface, producing one intense, even beam with no visible dots. It is the better choice for uplighting where beam quality and uniformity matter, and it generally delivers higher output per fitting.
High power COB LED inground light for facade and pathway lighting
贴片 (surface-mounted device)uses discrete LED packages. Output per fitting is lower, but SMD gives more flexibility in beam distribution and colour mixing, and runs cooler — which matters in enclosed inground housings where heat has nowhere to go.
Both are available across our range. Browse COB LED inground lights.
Fixed vs Adjustable Beam
A fixed-beam inground light is simpler, better sealed and usually cheaper. It is the right default when the fitting position and the target are both known at design stage.
An adjustable-beam fitting lets the installer aim the light after installation, which is genuinely useful for uplighting trees that grow, sculptures whose final position changes, or schemes commissioned on site. The trade-off is one more moving part in the sealing path. Our adjustable beam inground lights are designed to hold their aim without compromising the gasket.
