wmboots;289642 wrote: I sell t-5 lighting to customers of my company for their warehouses and during the sale I let them know that t-5 lamps have an estimated 20,000 hour lamp life and from what I read about 10k and actinic lamps they have a 10,000 hour half life which to me would mean it would be about time to replace at 10,000 hours. How many months that is depends on the hours you have them burning per day.