Seeking suggestions on better shop lighting options

[TimToad]

These are the overhead lights my predecessor installed and I absolutely hate them. I'm guessing they are mercury vapor because they hum like crazy and cast a very unnatural light in a shop with no windows. You can imagine how tough it is proofing colors in this environment.

The shop is divided into two sections and these are in the "printing/design/office area. The shop and truck bay area has a few of these and a couple of 8' rows of fluorescent tubes and 14' overhead door.

Has anybody had these and replaced the bulbs with something better?

 

[Jacob]

you can buy a led swap kit that takes a littel bit of wiring. We just switched out a ton of them with 4 bulb t5 high bays. about 250 bucks per fixture. Much nicer light and way cheaper to operate.

 

[SightLine]

We also converted to T5HO. Out in the install bay ours were all the older 8' two bulb T12 and I converted them all to two bulb T5HO. The improvement is dramatic, much brighter out there and using about a third less electricity. I talked about what we did in the thread below.

http://www.signs101.com/forums/showthread.php?114137-Shop-Lighting