SATCO Lighting S8027 S14 LED String Light Replacement Bulb, 2200K, 120V, Replacement 4-Pack

Yes. The S8027 carries a wet location rating and is listed for both indoor and outdoor use, so it holds up on an exposed patio, courtyard, or pool deck string where rain hits the bulb directly. The body is aluminum and glass rather than plastic.

No. The S8027 is non-dimmable. Put it on a dimmer circuit and you will get flicker, buzz, or premature failure rather than a smooth fade. If the strand is fed through a wall dimmer or an inline dimming controller, either bypass the dimmer or choose a lamp that states dimmable. The 2200K color is already a low, warm amber, so for most patio installs the dimmer was doing what the color temperature does here anyway.

2200K is a deep amber, warmer than a standard 2700K soft white, and it is the color chosen deliberately to mimic the look of an old carbon filament cafe bulb. Output is 100 lumens, matched to an 11W incandescent S14. If your existing strand is original incandescent cafe bulbs, the S8027 will read very close. If you are mixing it into a strand that already has 2700K or 3000K LEDs on it, the difference in color will be obvious down the run, so change the whole strand rather than a few sockets.

Each S8027 draws 0.008 amps at 120V, roughly 1 watt. That is a very small load, so the practical ceiling is not the branch circuit but the manufacturer's stated maximum run for your particular strand and its plug-through connectors. For a facility running long patio or courtyard strands, the current draw per lamp is what lets dozens sit on a single feed where the same count of 11W incandescent S14s would not.

Any orientation works. The S8027 is rated for universal burning position, so it performs the same base-up under a soffit, base-down on a catenary strand, or horizontal on a wall-mounted run. The beam spread is 320 degrees, so light throws almost all the way around the lamp instead of casting a single direction.

Yes, it is rated for enclosed fixtures as well as open ones. That matters if your strand uses glass or acrylic socket guards, or if you are putting S14 lamps into small sealed lanterns where heat builds around the lamp. Many filament-style LEDs are open-fixture only, so this is the spec to check before you commit a whole facility to one lamp.

Rated life on the S8027 is 15,000 hours. On a hospitality patio burning roughly 12 hours a night, that is several years before relamping, against the few thousand hours an incandescent S14 gives. For a property running long exterior strands, the labor of getting a lift out to swap lamps is usually the real cost, and that is what the rated life buys back.

It is an LED filament lamp in a clear glass envelope, so the strands are visible the way they are in a vintage cafe bulb rather than hidden behind a diffuser. Paired with the 2200K amber color, it reads as a decorative exposed-filament lamp, which is the point on a restaurant patio or event space where the bulb itself is part of the look.

Neither. The S8027 is a single fixed output at 2200K, with no CCT selection switch and no three-way circuit. Screw it in and it runs at one color and one brightness. If you are standardizing a property on selectable-temperature lamps, this is not that lamp, and it should not go into a three-way socket expecting stepped levels.

No. The S8027 is not DLC approved, so it will not clear a rebate program that requires a DLC listing. For decorative string lighting that is usually moot, since DLC coverage centers on commercial general illumination, but if your project's energy incentive paperwork specifically calls for DLC-listed product, this lamp will not satisfy it.

CRI is 80 on the S8027. At 2200K that is the normal range for a decorative amber filament lamp, and it is enough for a patio, walkway, or event string where the lamp is setting mood rather than lighting a task. If you need food or merchandise to render accurately underneath, light that area with a separate higher-CRI fixture and let the string do the atmosphere.

Yes, the S8027 is marked lawful for sale in California, so it clears the state's lamp regulations for distributors shipping there and for contractors specifying it on California jobs. It is also FCC compliant, which matters on LED lamps because switching electronics can throw radio interference.