One of my favorite daughters is getting married in a May. She wants me to make a Neon like sign for her, about 2’ square. I haven’t looked real hard yet but know there are LED lights that replicate the look of Neon. There seem to be a lot of choices but I don’t know what the gotchas are. Does anyone have any advice on something cut to length, Selectable color would be nice. I’m guessing 5-8mm wide, needs to bend.
Not sure what it will say just yet. Could be as simple as
You could also probably get something close if you had a way to bend acrylic tubing. All you would need to do would be to fog it up, the slide the LED strips inside.
G2G lighting Aurora flex is what I suggest at work for neon replacements. CNC routed backing works best but it can be installed with clips (drastic curves suffer some). It is a bit pricy but the best I have evaluated.
This LED strip looks great! It is so much easier to work than neon, and more durable than EL wire. The big bonus is that there is no high voltage to contend with.
How is that made? LED light strip in the shape of the letters with power running behind it? Which strip did you use? I’ve not come across any that have that fogged kind of look nor could be bent at such acute angles. Would love to know what yall went with.
Here are some close up photos of G2G Lighting Aurora Flex I have in the office. Its cut in the same manner as LED strips and comes with little caps for the ends. All of the letters are wired together and tucked behind the backing. This one was used a foam core substrate cut on a CNC.
I believe you can order them in full rgb, otherwise if you want solid colors for different parts of the sign I’m pretty sure they sell single color strips so you can cut and paste as needed. Sign will be in digital media all afternoon/evening until it goes out to it’s destination.
