Emtek Modern Classic Brass Leverset - Helios Lever, Passage

Yes, handing is specified at order time: the Helios lever comes as Left Hand (LH) or Right Hand (RH). Stand outside the door (the side you push from on a swing-in door) and the hinges tell you which. Get it backwards and the lever curve points the wrong way. Unlike commercial non-handed passage levers, this one is not field reversible, so pick the hand before you order.

It drops into standard 2-1/8 inch bore door prep, and the latch is adjustable, so a 2-3/8 inch backset is the standard and 2-3/4 inch is specified if that is what your door is bored for. One exception: if you pair it with a STRETTO rosette on a privacy thumbturn, that setup needs a 1-1/4 inch diameter bore and a two-hole prep instead. On the passage version with the standard rosettes, the 2-1/8 inch cross bore is all you need.

It ships as a complete set with the latch and the strike plate, so nothing else is required for a standard bored door. The latch faceplate comes round corner or square corner to match what is already cut into the door edge, and the backset is adjustable between 2-3/8 and 2-3/4 inches. Two levers, two rosettes, latch, strike, screws, and the door is done.

No. The Helios is a residential solid brass tubular leverset, built for interior doors in homes and units, not for corridor or commercial traffic. For a commercial passage opening, look at a Grade 1 cylindrical lever like the Falcon K101 or the Corbin Russwin CL3110, or a Grade 2 such as the Accentra 5301LN Augusta or the Hager 2510. Where the Helios earns its place is inside the unit, on bedroom hall and closet doors where the finish matters more than the cycle count.

The Helios passage leverset is a residential brass tubular lockset with passage function, so it carries no commercial ANSI grade. For the same passage/hall/closet function in a Grade 1 heavy duty cylindrical lock, the Falcon K101 covers a 1-3/8 inch to 1-3/4 inch through 2-1/4 inch door thickness range, is fire rated, and uses non-handed levers. The Corbin Russwin CL3110 is another Grade 1 passage/closet lock, vandal resistant and fire rated, for 1-3/4 inch to 2 inch doors. The Design Hardware X75 is a Grade 1 passage lever lockset for 1-3/4 inch doors. All three trade the Helios brass decorative rosette selection for a rated commercial lock body.

The Helios leverset is non-keyed with passage function, meaning the lever always retracts the latch and nothing locks. A bath or bedroom door needs privacy function: the Baldwin Estate 5103 privacy lever with the 5048 rose is a decorative brass-era equivalent, the Hager 2540 is a Grade 2 privacy cylindrical lock with the Withnell lever for 1-3/8 inch to 2 inch doors, the Arrow MK02-TA is a Grade 2 privacy cylindrical lock with a Tudor knob and fire rating, and the Kwikset 300BRNL Breton is a Grade 3 privacy lever set for 1-3/8 inch to 1-3/4 inch doors.

Passage function on the Helios means non-keyed operation with no cylinder. For a keyed opening, the Dexter C1000 entry/office is a Grade 1 clutching keyed cylindrical lever for 1-3/8 inch to 1-3/4 inch doors, the Hager 2525 is a Grade 2 commercial cylindrical entry lock with lever handle for 1-3/8 inch to 2 inch doors, the Cal-Royal AG00 is a Grade 2 entrance lever with a 6-pin Schlage C keyway keyed different and a 2-3/8 inch backset, and the Falcon B511CP6D is a Grade 2 medium duty entry/office cylindrical lever. On the decorative side, Deltana offers entry levers including the 6201 Manchester and 6411 Morant for 1-3/8 inch to 2 inch doors.

The Helios brass leverset is specified for 1-3/8 inch to 1-3/4 inch door thickness with a 2-1/8 inch cross bore. For openings past that, the Falcon K101 Grade 1 passage lock covers 1-3/8 inch to 2-1/4 inch, the Hager 2510 Grade 2 passage lever covers 1-3/8 inch to 2 inch, the Arrow GL01 Grade 2 passage lock with Sierra lever covers 1-3/4 inch to 2 inch, and the Corbin Russwin CL3110 Grade 1 passage/closet lock covers 1-3/4 inch to 2 inch.

The Helios passage leverset is ordered as Left Hand or Right Hand, so handing has to be confirmed against the door before ordering. Where the handing is not known or a single part needs to cover both, the Falcon B101 is a Grade 2 cylindrical passage lever with a non-handed design and the Falcon K101 is a Grade 1 passage lock with non-handed levers. The Kwikset 200DL Delta passage lever is reversible and ships with an adjustable 6AL latch and RCS strike.

CF stands for concealed fastener. Choose the CF Mechanism Upgrade and the inside rosettes mount with no exposed screws, which is what most people want on a visible interior door. Selecting CF also brings the 28 degree rotation latch, a shorter lever throw than a standard latch. The third choice on that axis is simply declining the upgrade, which leaves conventional exposed rosette screws. If the doors are in a front hall or anywhere guests see them, take the CF.

The Helios lever can be ordered on any brass rosette Emtek makes, and six shapes are offered here: Disk, Modern, Modern Rectangular, Neos, Square, and Urban Modern. That is the usual way to keep one lever design consistent across a house or a unit while matching square trim in one area and round in another. Eight finishes are available too, from Flat Black (US19) and Oil Rubbed Bronze (US10B) through Polished Chrome (US26), Polished Nickel Lifetime (US14), Satin Nickel (US15), Satin Brass (US4), French Antique (US7), and Unlacquered Brass (US3NL).

If the spend is the constraint, the Bravura Grade 2 passage leversets cover the same interior hall and closet job: Atlanta, Orlando, and Miramar with round trim, or Tampa with square trim. The Kwikset 200BRNL Breton is a Grade 3 passage lever. What you give up against the Helios is solid brass construction and the run of eight Emtek finishes and six rosette shapes. On a unit turn nobody notices; on an owner-occupied renovation they do.

You need a privacy set on those, not passage. The Helios passage lever has no locking function, so a bedroom or bath door gets a matching Emtek privacy lever with a thumbturn instead. Keep the same rosette and finish across both functions and the whole floor reads as one set. In the comparable range, a Baldwin Estate 5103 privacy lever with the 5048 rose is the equivalent decorative-brand approach, and Baldwin also offers that lever in passage and in left and right hand half dummy for closet and French door leaves.

A dummy lever is fixed trim with no latch at all, used on inactive doors and closet pairs. The Helios passage leverset is a working tubular lockset sold as a complete set with latch and strike plate, with a lever that retracts the latch. Dummy peers include the Baldwin Estate 5103 half dummy lever with the 5048 rose in left hand and right hand versions, the BEST 9K Series 1DT single dummy trim in Grade 1 heavy duty non-keyed, the BEST 7KC Series single dummy trim in Grade 2 medium duty, and the Callan Bentley Grade 2 dummy lever. Order a dummy only when nothing needs to latch.

The Helios passage leverset is a brass, contemporary-style lockset ordered by rosette and finish. Where the door only needs a working passage latch, the Falcon B101 is a Grade 2 medium duty cylindrical passage lever with a non-handed design, the Hager 2510 is a Grade 2 passage cylindrical lever with the Withnell lever for 1-3/8 inch to 2 inch doors, and the Kwikset 200BRNL Breton is a Grade 3 passage lever set for 1-3/8 inch to 1-3/4 inch doors. Each performs the same latch-only passage function without the brass substrate and rosette selection the Helios is built around.

The Helios is a contemporary-style residential brass leverset in passage function, offered in finishes including Flat Black US19, Oil Rubbed Bronze US10B, Polished Nickel US14, Satin Brass US4, Satin Nickel US15 and Unlacquered Brass US3NL. In the same decorative residential lane, the Baldwin Estate 5103 passage lever with the 5048 rose is the closest peer. Bravura also builds passage leversets in this vein: the Miramar with round trim in US4 Satin Brass at Grade 2, the Atlanta and Orlando with round trim, and the Tampa with square trim, all Grade 2. Callan's Asheville is a Grade 3 passage leverset in satin nickel.

The Helios is a non-electronic, non-keyed brass leverset with passage function, so it has no code entry. Keyless code-operated levers are a separate product: the Lockey 2835 is a mechanical pushbutton keyless lever lock with passage function and ADA compliance for 1-3/16 inch to 2 inch doors, the Lockey 2835DC adds double combination on the same thickness range, the Lockey 1150 is a heavy duty mechanical keypad lever set with double combination and passage function for 1-1/8 inch to 2 inch doors, and the Delaney LP250 is a Grade 2 electronic keypad leverlock.

The Helios is a residential brass leverset with passage function, chosen by rosette and finish. Facilities standardizing on graded hardware generally pair a passage lever with matching keyed functions in one series. Accentra's Augusta line offers the 5301LN Grade 2 passage/closet lever in the 5300 Series and the 4601LN Grade 2 passage lever in the 4600 Series, with the 455LN Grade 1 single dummy in the 5400 Series for inactive leaves. Dexter's C1000 Grade 1 series spans classroom, classroom security, entry/office and asylum functions for 1-3/8 inch to 1-3/4 inch doors, and Falcon's T101 is a Grade 1 heavy duty passage lever with pressure release technology in the T Series.

Several lever products sit near passage function without doing the same job. The Corbin Russwin 585F715 is a Grade 1 lock lever for the ED8000 pushpad exit device, which is exit device trim rather than a standalone lockset. The Imperial USA ED-EL500HD is heavy duty escutcheon lever trim in entry function, again trim for a device. The Codelocks CL410 and CL415 tubular latchbolt is a latch component only. The Accentra 107S is a Schlage cylinder adapter kit for Yale hardware, a keying accessory. The Helios, by contrast, is a complete tubular lockset supplied with latch and strike plate.

The Helios passage leverset is offered in both 2-3/8 inch and 2-3/4 inch backset, with the standard latch supplied for 2-3/8 inch and 2-3/4 inch specified when required. Among commercial peers, the Cal-Royal AG03 classroom lever in the AG Series is built to a 2-3/4 inch backset, while the Cal-Royal AG00 entrance lever is a 2-3/8 inch backset. Confirm the existing bore center-to-edge dimension on the door before choosing.

The Helios is a residential brass tubular passage leverset. On openings that take abuse, heavy duty commercial locks are the substitution: the Falcon K101 is a Grade 1 heavy duty passage lock, the Falcon T101 is a Grade 1 heavy duty passage lever with pressure release technology, the Corbin Russwin CL3110 is a Grade 1 vandal resistant passage/closet lock, and the BEST 9K Series 1DT is Grade 1 heavy duty for the dummy positions. For utility rooms that also need to lock, the Arrow MK33-BD-CS is a heavy duty asylum function lock with a Schlage C keyway conventional cylinder.

Yes. A split finish is available as an ordering option on the Helios leverset, so the hall side can be one of the eight finishes and the room side another. It is how you keep a hallway in Flat Black while the bedroom side stays Satin Nickel or Unlacquered Brass. Specify the split when you place the order rather than trying to combine two sets on site.

Unlacquered Brass (US3NL) is one of the eight finish choices, and the lever body is solid brass, so it will darken and patina with handling rather than holding a fixed color. If you want brass that stays put, order Satin Brass (US4) or Polished Nickel Lifetime (US14) instead. The Helios itself is a contemporary lever profile, so the unlacquered option is the usual way people warm it up on an older house.