HIBOITEC started in 2019 on the aluminum shelf, making the light everyone else made. The LED, its driver and the lead wire went into a die-cast housing, resin went in after them, and the fixture shipped as one sealed piece. It was built to a price, and for a season or two it worked. Then a driver failed, or water found the gasket, and there was nothing to open and nothing to swap. The light went in the bin and the set got bought again. We sold that light for five years.
In 2024 we stopped adding and started subtracting. The plastic housings went first, then the fixtures that were too small for the job. What stayed had to earn its place: die-cast aluminum under a 70â100 ÎŒm powder coat, tested to 500 hours of salt spray; gaskets that seat and reseat; a socket where there used to be solder. Then the fit to the yard â a path light tall enough to clear mulch and snow, a spotlight sized for a tree rather than a shrub, a well light with a face that keeps the glare off the house. Nothing new was launched alongside its old version to see which one sold. The old version left.