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The 1000 hour life span is for the 5 watters only, the 1 watters are closer to 100,000 hours. I'm sure you could increase the lifetime of the 5w's by cooling them somehow or underdriving them, but I don't know how much. The other questionable thing is the stability of the phosphors used in the...

cmlp, your LED calculations are way off. If you're using the brightest most efficient LEDs available, they are only about 2 lumens for each 5mm white and <1 lumen for blue. So 20blues +20whites = about 60 lumens total. A 55w PC produces 4000+ lumens for white and 1000+ lumens for blue...