I cannot understand this short life of the old tubes either. One would have
to have them on and of tens of times a day to make them fail as was stated.
it almost sounds like the fittings have some odd kind of design fault ie not
turning off the heaters in a timely fashion or something, often the give
away are prematurely black ends in the tube.
I cannot think though that such a fault would affect LEDs as there is no
starter mechanism involved exterior to the actual tube itself.
Brian

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On Wed, 6 Jun 2018 20:58:26 +0100, Brian Reay wrote:

When checking the Screwfix catalogue for something else, I noticed they
did 5ft LED tubes for £14.99, claimed to be equivalent to 100W and
decided to try one.

They come with a 'special' started (a fuse it seems) and you can then
just fit without any rewiring. (I may remove the ballast later.)

Having installed it, it looks good- as bright as the two existing tubes.

Plan is to replace the rest (2 more in garage and 2 in workshop) when I
next visit Screwfix.

Wouldn't it be wise to wait a bit and see if these suffer the same
uncharacteristically short life as your conventional tubes (as I
believe that was why you were looking for an alternative)?

Cheers, T i m