Hikvision 30W Analog Garden Speaker Green DS-QAE0730G1-V/G

A garden speaker is bought to be unobtrusive, and that is the whole design brief. The DS-QAE0730G1-V/G is a 30 W analogue speaker finished in green, made to sit in planting, along a path edge or against a hedge on a compound, a hotel terrace, a club or a landscaped courtyard — audible where people are walking, and not the first thing anyone looks at.

The colour is not a trivial detail on this kind of job. A speaker that reads as equipment ruins the look a landscape architect was paid for; one that disappears into the greenery does the same acoustic work and nobody notices it.

Where it earns its place on a job

Outdoor background audio behaves differently from indoor. There are no walls to reflect sound back, so level falls away faster than people expect, and the answer is more units at low level spread along the route people walk rather than a few loud ones at the ends. Done properly the sound seems to come from nowhere in particular, which is exactly the intended effect on a terrace or a garden path.

Then there is the part that gets forgotten until someone complains: outdoor sound does not stop at the property line. A garden system on a compound backs onto somebody’s bedroom window, and the hour it is loudest is usually the hour that matters to the neighbour. Agreeing where the boundary is, and keeping the level and the aiming inside it, is worth more than any specification decision on the page.

Before you order — three things to confirm

• The cable route, and that it is buried properly. Garden cable runs go under paths and through planting. Conduit and a draw string cost very little at the time and save digging up a finished garden later; direct-buried cable that fails is a landscaping job, not an electrical one.
• Where the amplifier lives and how far away it is. The equipment stays indoors or in a plant room; only the speakers go out. Measure the actual route rather than the straight line across the lawn.
• The boundary and the hours of use. Decide with the client what is acceptable at the edge of the property and at what time, before the system is commissioned rather than after the first complaint.

Technical specifications

• Manufacturer: Hikvision
• Model: DS-QAE0730G1-V/G
• Type: analogue garden speaker
• Rated power: 30 W
• Finish: green
• Everything else — sound pressure level, frequency response, impedance, line voltage and tapping options, ingress rating, ground spike or bracket detail, dimensions and weight: full manufacturer datasheet available on request, call 16454.

Compatibility

Analogue, so it runs from an amplifier over speaker cable rather than on the data network. Tell us the amplifier and what is already on the line and we will confirm the pairing against the datasheet before quoting. If the site will be re-zoned later, or the garden is one zone among many across a large property, the multi-zone amplifier is the part of the system that decides how flexible the result is.

What’s in the box

The speaker and the manufacturer’s documentation. Cable, conduit, ground fixings and any weatherproof joint are quoted with the job rather than assumed included — contents for the current revision are confirmed on your order.

Common questions on this model

How many do we need along a path?
More than most people expect, at lower level than most people expect. Send us the layout with the path route and the areas that need covering, and we will space them properly rather than guess from the area.

Can it be left out all year?
It is built as an outdoor speaker; the exact ingress rating for this revision is on the datasheet and we will send it. Position still matters — out of standing water and out of the irrigation spray pattern.

Can we run the garden separately from inside?
That is a zoning question and the answer sits at the amplifier, not the speaker. Tell us which areas must be controlled independently and we will size the amplifier for it.

Genuine Hikvision, official one-year manufacturer warranty, delivery across Egypt. For the datasheet, a layout or project pricing, call 16454.