A "ballast" for these Lighting Emitting Diode

Now, I wonder about the lumens maintenance would last

LED signs actually seem to be pretty good, they are a lot more consistent than fluorescent and don't flicker. This is an application where I support LEDs.

our McDonalds sign has part of it out already! its less then 2 months old and also some LED strips on the building side have failed , however the LED parking lot lights are fine

I hope you're not to surprised. Those LED drivers are very low quality. I do like LED signlights for letters, but for the box-shaped signs, the fluorescent tubes just look better in those IMO.

they looked ok , but not nearly as even as a white neon or fluorescent would do

but yeah i like boxed signs with the cutout letters the best
on a side note, I love big Macs! Don't care how unhealthy they are

White Neon?

Yes , they're basically cold cathode Fluorecent

Argon alone can produce UVs as well, so maybe some white neons don't use any mercury like a fluorescent does.

White is easiest to make with mercury as the excitation source. White neon here generally uses this, instead of argon. Blue light with a white phosphor coating.

would someone care to clarify this white neon?...i've never heard of it.

@ A_Lights, I've honestly never had a BigMac. I have to watch my figure. I can look at food and i'll gain a pound.

Figure?..women have figures,men have forms.

really i don't think there's any healthy fast food.

White Neons aren't really neon glowing white..or isn't even technically neon.... to be technical they are just basically tubing that has fluorescent phosphor with argon and mercury (same stuff inside fluorescent lights and coated mercs) and they are in a CCFL form (one contacts on each side pretty much)

The clear tubing that light up orange however are the true neon!!! But the other colors...most of them, the purple, the yellow, the blue, the green are basically fluorescent phosphor with argon and mercury inside......but I have heard pink did have neon in them......certain colors must use argon instead of neon while there's some that actually uses neon...

Why do we still call some of those neons instead of "Argon Signs" beats me.....but it was for many years well known to be "neons" because of the first orange ones they first used in the 1920s or 1930s....but the color ones came a bit later and is kinda a technological innovation in neon lighting....

"Figure?..women have figures,men have forms.

really i don't think there's any healthy fast food."

Okay, okay, I'm overweight then.

Stay in topic......and guys....I must announce I stopped eating McDonald's for past 6 months or so and been eating Subway and Chick-fil-a instead (which are actually healther....) and I have went on a lower calorie a day diet and I've already lost 25 pounds in 4 months!!! I now look good!

thanks for clarifying the "white neon" gull.

I had a lot of pink neon filled ( but with a pink phosphor coating to filter the red to pink) signage at work, but last week it was changed to a boring box ( Neon maintenance was becoming an issue, exposed tubing tends to die after a while from stress) and all i have left is the one 7500V transformer and 4 segments of pink.