Actually, I have them in my backyard where I have outdoor lighting. There are 7 15-watt bulbs that emit the light equivalent of an 80 watt incandescent bulb. In total, they consume about as much as a 105 Watt incandescent light bulb, so I don’t worry about flicking the switch and lighting up the backyard in the summertime.
I’ve put them in my street lamp and outdoor porch lights too. They also last a long time.
With regard to my garden lighting, I had no choice as the housing and cover is plastic - incandescent lighting would have quickly overheated the whole thing melting the entire housing...
I am confused. You're burning 105 Watts of power to get the equivalent of 80 Watt lightbulb? The math's off somewhere, there FRiend...unless that's 7 80 Watt lightbulbs you are replacing.
Can LED lightbulbs work with dimmer switches? I know the flourescents don't, but nobody seems to care.