NEON ADVICE from headaches of doing mine 3 times.
Bike vibrations will destroy neon tubes period. These should aid in it lasting longer. If you pop wheelies understand your plastics will flex your neons will not. Period. Neons take longer to ignite and come on in cold weather temps. Shortens life if it's too cold.
Anyway. I would suggest LED's as alternative from experience of using both. But hope these help.
1. Get some clear tubing from the plumbing department. Cut a piece as long as your neon tube. You will notice on a neon tube that there are non neon end caps at both ends of the tube about an inch long. Take your clear tube and move inward an inch from the very end. Start slicing a slit all the way toward the other end of the tube stopping one inch from the other end. That way you can open the center of the clear tube except at the ends (make a vaggeena).
2. Insert the wires thru the slit opening and out one end. Insert neon tube thru slit and into tubing. This will allow the non slit ends to hold onto the neon tube. This will keep road debrie and heat off the neon tube itself. This will aid in preventing cracks. It's clear so it also helps disperse the light.
3. If you have colored tips on your neon tubes paint them black to help the tips vanish more.
4. Keep your wire runs from your inverters to the neons at the factory wire length or shorter. Longer leads means less current = short life.
5. Use expoxy to attach clear tubing w/neon inside to plastics etc. Only epoxy the center area of the tubing not the ENDS. This will allow the flexing plastic to give more freely and not torq the neon as much. LONGER LIFE WITHOUT CRACKS.
6. The main upper fairing engine holes will hold a 9" neon tube fine.
The lower engine fairing holes will hold a 6" neon tube.
The lip under the horizontal part of the tail section behind, the passenger rearsets, and under the driver seat going front to rear of bike, (near the battery box) this area will hold a 9" tube on either side of the bike, if you have an undertail this works great. You can see neon lights but not tubes.
Above the front wheel is a black Shield to keep crap out of the nose section. Cut a two "tracks" smaller than the neons length and almost as wide out front to rear. Attach neons to the inside side of the shield. When you look up all you will see is the lit up part of the neon tube flush inside the shield. 9" or 6" tubes work fine.
Under bike inside lip of the main left and right side panels at bottom. will hold 6" tubes. (where the metal bracket goes across to the other side panel.
Vertical mount 3" tubes inside the "wing" under the belly of the bike. Holds two.
Behind the "screens" on the tail section side body holds 3" tube on each side. I had two more somewhere and cant remember.
Use a seperate wire/relay and connect all neon transformers to one switch.
Goal is to see neons and not tubes. At least mine was.
Hope that helps ya out some. The pic was before I put screens in which hid them even better. I used mini thin tubes from streetglow. Bought them at wallmart for $8.00 a pack of two. You can mix 3" and 6" or 9" tubes on a transformer. Wire lenth is critical.
Board members will then become mean cause neons aint for airyone!
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