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Neon

TURN-KEY Neon Manufacturing, Neon Installation, and Neon Repair

Neon is a hand-made "light bulb", and all neon is not created equal!

Unlike most sign companies, Signs Manufacturing™ manufactures and repairs neon (and Cold-Cathode lamps).

We use the highest quality glass and nickel-flex electrodes with Dumet alloy inner leads, heavy-gauge solid-nickel corrosion-proof 7-strand exterior leads and ceramic collars, the best we can buy, because except for heat-cracking, most neon failures are electrode failures.Our artisans carefully charge each neon tube for optimum brilliance using the most sophisticated of neon pumping systems because the third most frequent cause of neon failure is improper pumping.

Even though all neon dims in cold weather, neon manufactured by Signs Manufacturing™ will dim less because we use gases specially formulated for cold weather, which are unaffected by hot weather.

Employing an old "trick-of-the-trade" we place our neon electrodes in the bottom of channel letters wherever possible.  The heat rising off the electrodes heats the neon and causes it not to dim so greatly in cold weather.  Another reason our signs are usually brighter when the weather is cold.

The most common cause of neon failure is heat cracking.  This is caused by improper installation (too much or too little neon footage for the size [secondary voltage] transformer used), or by the effects of high voltage on the shorter neon pieces.

It is critically important to the long-life of both the neon and the power transformers that each transformer has the proper resistance in neon (loading) for its secondary voltage.

Signs Manufacturing™ "burns in" each neon tube for twenty-four hours to stabilize the neon, then meters the neon to be connected to each transformer for both voltage and amperage draw to insure a proper load, because even identical neon letters will have different resistance.  Most competitors neither meter nor "burn in" their neon.

Well-made and properly installed neon should average a twenty-year lifetime (40,000 hours of use).

Neon is affected by voltage.  For instance, standard neon will burn nearly 100% brighter if you double the power feeding it.  The neon  will last about ¼ as long, however, making this alternative quite expensive in total cost.

Our challenge is to give you a brighter sign which attracts more customers, without increasing your sign, energy, or maintenance costs.

Channel letters are usually illuminated with neon.  Our artisans individually manufacture the neon for each letter after the letter base is manufactured to insure a proper fit that will evenly and brilliantly illuminate the entire face of the letter without "shorting" against the metal.  Sign companies that buy their neon pre-made from neon manufacturers cannot do this.

Multiple neon strokes are added as required to insure even illumination.

We automatically employ neon intensity control to give our customers the brightest sign possible without increasing energy costs.

The Enduring Brilliance of Neon

Outdoor commercial signage plays a crucial role in capturing attention, enhancing brand visibility, and conveying messages effectively. Among the various options available, neon lighting has long been favored for its vibrant, eye-catching appeal. It's used in building lighting, storefront channel letters, wall signage and more. While LED technology has made significant strides in recent years, attempting to replicate neon's impact, it falls short in recreating the mesmerizing charm that only neon can deliver. What are the unique benefits of neon used in outdoor commercial signage and why do LEDs struggle to match its allure?

1. Unmatched Visual Brilliance: Neon signs are renowned for their unparalleled brightness and luminosity. The noble gases, typically neon, within the glass tubes emit a distinct, vivid glow when electrified. This captivating radiance not only draws attention but also creates a memorable visual experience. LEDs, although capable of producing intense light, lack the same enchanting quality and often appear harsher and less organic.

2. Wide Range of Colors and Effects: Neon offers an extensive palette of colors, allowing businesses to create vibrant, eye-catching signage that aligns with their brand identity. The process of altering the color in neon signs is achieved by utilizing different gases, phosphor coatings, and colored glass. This versatility allows for captivating gradients, multi-color effects, and custom designs that stand out from the crowd. LEDs, on the other hand, struggle to replicate the same range of hues, often appearing limited in comparison.

3. Artistic Flexibility and Craftsmanship: Neon signs are crafted by skilled artisans who bend, shape, and weld glass tubes into intricate designs, resulting in a truly handcrafted piece of art. The craftsmanship involved in creating neon signage adds a unique touch of elegance and authenticity that cannot be replicated by mass-produced LED displays. Each neon sign possesses a distinct personality, making it a captivating focal point for passersby.

4. Nostalgic Appeal and Timeless Aesthetic: Neon signs have a rich history and evoke a sense of nostalgia, harking back to the glamour and vibrancy of earlier eras. Their retro aesthetic carries an inherent charm that resonates with people across generations. Neon signs lend a timeless quality to commercial spaces, effortlessly infusing a sense of character and warmth that LEDs struggle to emulate.

5. High Visibility and Longevity: Neon signs are exceptionally visible, even in adverse weather conditions or during nighttime. Their luminosity cuts through fog, rain, and other visual barriers, ensuring that businesses remain noticeable and identifiable at all times. Additionally, neon signs have a long lifespan, often lasting for many years with proper maintenance. LEDs, while energy-efficient and durable, may require more frequent replacements and lose their brightness over time.

While LED technology continues to advance, attempting to rival the timeless appeal of neon, it falls short in capturing the essence and impact of neon lighting in outdoor commercial signage. Neon's unrivaled brilliance, wide color range, artistic craftsmanship, nostalgic allure, and exceptional visibility make it an irreplaceable choice for businesses seeking to make a memorable impression. Neon signage continues to hold its place as a classic and captivating advertising medium that transcends trends and leaves a lasting impression on viewers.

Neon Colors

• White (9 different shades)
• Warmtone
• Clear Red
• Red (4 additional coated colors)
• Amber
• Rose
• Ruby Red
• Orange (4 different colors)
• Tangerine
• Gold
• Yellow
• Pink
• Beige
• Magenta
• Violet
• Purple
• Green (7 different colors)
• Turquoise
• Clear Blue
• Blue (6 additional colors)
• Aquamarine

Cold-Cathode Colors  (Glass 18 mm and larger)

• White (10 different shades)
• Green
• Blue (2 different shades)

Neon and Cold-Cathode Lamp Brightness

Glass tubes 8 mm to 18 mm thick are used to make "neon" lamps, 18 mm to 30 mm thick to make so-called "cold-cathode" lamps, thicker to make "fluorescent" lamps.

Other than size and the type of electrode used, there is no difference between neon and fluorescent lamps of the same color output.  The size and/or color does change the energy requirements, however, which is why they use different power sources.

All things being equal, the thinner the tube, the more light it puts out!

Unless there are over-riding lumen requirements, or landlord restrictions, we will adjust your neon size to give you the brightest sign possible.  However, you CAN have an even brighter sign (see Brighter Signs.)

The Signs Manufacturing Your-Location Sales Team's Personalized Service

No matter what types of signs you are interested in, our sales team, consisting of 11 highly-trained individuals, is at your beck and call.

Let us meet with you in your office, or at your new signs location, or home, or anywhere.

You will probably have a firm quotation, not a non-binding "estimate" like most competitors provide, for what you want during our meeting; certainly no more than a day later.

We can design and build your next sign while maintaining Social Distancing guidelines

Our showroom is open and sanitized so you can safely review the different options available for your new signage.

Also, we have many options to help design your new look, from collaborating remotely (from your own home bridged to our design team) to designing with you in our Projection Room, which is large enough to maintain Social Distancing.

Are You a "Visual" Person?

It is difficult to picture what a sign is going to look like. What do you picture when we say "triple-layer multi-colored lighting with a textured backplate?"

Our showroom is designed to solve that problem. Most people are visual ... they need to see something firsthand to understand what it is and whether it has value to them. Seeing is believing!

Visit our Showroom to see for yourself.

Visit Our Unique Sign Lighting Laboratory and Showroom

Unique in the entire sign industry, Signs Manufacturing™ built an 85' by 50' (over 4,000 sq ft) indoor sign lighting laboratory for testing the longevity, visibility, and effectiveness of all the lighted signs we manufacture.

The Laboratory is open to the public, for FREE, adding an LED Video Display Showroom because we realized how important one would be to consumers.

If you are considering purchasing an LED Video Display or Digital LED Message Center sign this exclusive opportunity will be particularly important.  You must determine what type of sign, and which LED spacing is best, so that your sign will be successful, considering how you will use it.

Therefore:

• at least nine (9) different Full-color LED Display signs, each with a varied resolution
• a Monochrome LED Message Center sign
• a 4-thousand-shade single-color LED Message Center sign
• an economical fixed-message Full-color LED Message Center
• a fully self-contained, self-powered portable LED Sign trailer, the LED Sled™

are always available for you to compare.

We invite you to also observe all other types of signage, viewing them up close as well as from a distance, under varying light conditions (and stay out of the weather while doing so!)

• Neon and LED building accent lighting.
• Neon color selection.
• Brighter Signs™ neon.
• Channel letter signs, both neon and LED lighted.
• Letterlites™ channel letter signs.
• Twinkling Letterlites™ channel letter signs.
• SpectraLites™ Color-changing channel letter signs.
• Reverse channel letter signs.
• Cloud signs.
• Channel letter signs with backplates.
• Raceways and wireways.
• Cabinet signs, fluorescent, HID, or LED lighted.
• SolarBrite™ LED lighting.
• LED color selection.
• Pinlights™ signs.
• Pylon signs.
• Pole signs.
• Masonry Monument signs.
• Computer-controlled full-color, programmable, building lighting.
• Storefront Lighting.
• Facade Lighting.
• Neon and LED building accent lighting.
• Wall-wash back-lighting for all types of signs.
• Routed sign faces for all types of signs.
• Digitally printed and cut vinyl decorated sign faces for all types of signs.
• Acrylic-faced signs.
• Lexan^®-faced signs.
• Flex-faced cabinet signs.
• Push-thru lettering.
• Pin-mounted letters.
• Acrylic and Lexan color selection.
• Vinyl color selection
• PMS color selection.
• Paint color selection (32,807 colors.)
• ...and more.

Will your Sodium Vapor or Metal Halide parking lot lights affect the colors of your sign at night?  How visible will your pylon sign's border neon be during the day?  Should you consider PinLights™, LetterLites™, SpectraLites™, or Trembler™ signs?  Brighter Signs™ neon or SolarBrite™ LED lighting for channel letter signs?  Fluorescent or HID lighting for your monument sign?  Do Daylight or Cool White fluorescents make your sign's colors look best?  What are the differences between a flex-faced, a Lexan™, and an acrylic-faced sign cabinet?

How will shadows affect my sign's readability during the day?  Should the wall behind my sign be light or dark colored?  Would a different type of sign look better on my brick wall?  Should I consider a routed sign face with push-through letters?

Live Showroom Demonstrations of Products that Improve Your Signs

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• Sunsational™ Engineering
• NASA's Ceramic Vacuum Microsphere Coating
• Solarguard™ Protective Coatings
• Signlux™ Paint Systems
• Solar Finishes™ Bright Reflective White
• Lumabrite™
• Vandal-Resistant Coatings
• Flexible Sign Face Installation Methods
• Lighting Options

No one else can offer you this unique opportunity. Be sure to take advantage.

Your business will be better because you do.

If you don't visit it could cost you thousands in sales every year.

Can you afford not to?

"I almost made a huge mistake by not listening to you and visiting your showroom prior to buying my sign.  I thought I knew what I wanted, after listening to so many salespeople...boy, was I wrong.  My vision of the sign did not jibe with what it would really turn out to be, even after viewing so many drawings.  It was obvious the moment I entered the showroom.  If I had stuck to my guns my sign would have been a disaster.  I would have wasted a lot of money."
Cecil Drake, Drake Communications

Why Buy Factory-Direct from a State-Licensed Company?

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Why not buy from a Sign Dealer (also called a Sign Broker, Car Wrap company or a Sign Store?)

Would you give a car dealer $10,000 and tell him to buy you the best car he can for the money, sight unseen (or from a drawing?)  Don't you think you would get the car that made him the most?

Do you think you could meet your needs asking for the cheapest car he can buy?

Why would a sign dealer (Car Wrap company or sign store) be any different?  Remember, they are merely buying a sign from a manufacturer to resell to you, usually to resemble a drawing, making the most money they can.

You need to know ALL of the details on how your sign will be manufactured, and how it will be installed.  It needs to meet YOUR needs, not the seller's profit goals.  What is he telling the manufacturer you don't need?

Believing "...a sign is a sign" gets you a Yugo instead of a Cadillac.  Remember the Yugo?  They didn't last very long, either.

Also, most sign dealers, Car Wrap companies and sign stores cannot legally install or service an electric sign.  Ask to see their license.

Ask to see a manufacturer's license also.  A few are not licensed to do electrical work, either, they also have to hire other companies to install the signs they make.

Now, who provides the warranty?  The manufacturer, the installer, the salesman, anyone?  If the sign was installed illegally do you think they'll honor their warranty?  Did they REALLY obtain your City sign permit?  Is the sign even safe?

As a large, both UL and ETL listed manufacturer, our name is on all our signs.  Just like you, we can't afford to have a bad sign destroy our business.  We have to care, particularly with our 5 Year ^$0 Cost Warranty and Lifetime Guarantees.

If you wonder if a sign-seller can legally install and service electrical signs through-out Texas go to http://www.tdlr.texas.gov/LicenseSearch, enter "Electricians" in the "Inquire by License Type" box and the name of the sign business or person in the "Inquire by Name" box.  If they are not licensed they can not.

So someone can sell you signs and not be licensed to install or service them.  You may have to have this done.  But unless the electrical signs you buy are "listed" (U.L. usually) they won't be allowed to be installed in Texas, a State of Texas Consumer Protection Safety Law designed to insure that signs are safe to use, with a few local city ordinance exceptions.  It is not illegal to sell them to you, however.  Buy carefully.

"I had a **** (sign company) right across the street … that store's out of business now … I found out they hired some other company to build and install our sign and they did a really #@%&&$ job, the thing has never lit right.  **** Corporate won't do anything, they say the closed store was an independent franchise, and the sign builder/installer won't fix it, they say we weren't their customer.  I need you to come out, tell me what it will cost to get the thing working properly and get it fixed."
Chris Jennings, Jimmy Johns

State Licensed Sign Installation and Sign Service

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We are a full-service sign company.  We provide sign site surveys, sign permits, sign installation and sign maintenance services for electrical and non-electrical signs for our customers as well as other sign companies.  We provide this work in Dallas, Fort Worth (DFW), and ALL of North Texas and Northeast Texas.

State Sign and Electrical License Numbers:  TECL17503, TSCL18015, TSCL18016.

Our technicians are also Quality Certified Signs™ certified.   (Click the "Installation & Service" tab for details.)

We serve and have installed signs in the Texas cities of Addison, Aledo, Allen, Alvarado, Anna, Argyle, Arlington, Athens, Aubrey, Avalon, Azle, Balch Springs, Bedford, Benbrook, Blue Mound, Bonham, Briar, Bridgeport, Buckingham, Burleson, Caddo Mills, Canton, Carrollton, Cedar Hill, Celina, Cleburne, Cockrell Hill, Colleyville, The Colony, Combine, Coppell, Corsicana, Crandall, Crowley, Dallas, Dalworthington Gardens, Decatur, Denison, Denton, Desoto, D/FW Airport, Dido, Duncanville, Eagle Mountain Lake, Edgecliff, Ennis, Euless, Everman, Farmers Branch, Farmersville, Ferris, Flower Mound, Forest Hill, Forney, Fort Worth, Frisco, Gainesville, Garland, Glenn Heights, Granbury, Grand Prairie, Grapevine, Greenville, Gun Barrel City, Haltom City, Haslet, Highland Park, Hillsboro, Hudson Oaks, Hurst, Hutchins, Irving, Italy, Itasca, Jacksboro, Joshua, Justin, Kaufman, Keene, Keller, Kennedale, Kleberg, Krum, Lake Dallas, Lake Worth, Lakeside, Lancaster, Las Colinas, Lawson, Lewisville, Little Elm, Longview, Mansfield, Marshall, Maypearl, McKinney, Melissa, Mesquite, Midlothian, Milford, Mineral Wells, Mount Pleasant, Mount Vernon, Murphy, Nevada, Newark, North Richland Hills, Ovilla, Palmer, Pantego, Paris, Parker County, Pelican Bay, Pittsburg, Plano, Ponder, Princeton, Prosper, Quinlan, Quitman, Red Oak, Rendon, Richardson, Richland Hills, Rice, River Oaks, Roanoke, Rockwall, Rowlett, Royse City, Sachse, Saginaw, Sansom Park, Sanger, Seagoville, Sherman, Silver Creek, Southlake, Springtown, Stephenville, Sulphur Springs, Sunnyvale, Terrell, Texarkana, Trophy Club, Tyler, University Park, Van Alstyne, Valley View, Watauga, Waxahachie, Weatherford, Wedgewood, Westlake, Weston, Westover Hills, Wheatland, White Settlement, Whitney, Wichita Falls, Willow Park, Wills Point, Wilmer, and Wylie.

ZIP Codes 75001 thru 76958.

Area Codes 214, 254, 430, 469, 682, 817, 903, 940, and 972.

Serving Collin, Cook, Dallas, Denton, Ellis, Fannin, Franklin, Grayson, Henderson, Hill, Hood, Hopkins, Hunt, Johnson, Kaufman, Lamar, Navarro, Parker, Rockwall, Somervell, Tarrant, Titus, Van Zandt, Wood, and Wise Counties in Texas.

We also have signs in 43 different states, and 6 other nations.

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Using Our Website to Learn | The Knowledge Tree^™

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Your sign forms that very important "first impression" your potential customer has of your business.  Your sign must always look nearly as good as it looked the day it was installed so that you don't give potential customers a worsening impression of your business as your sign ages.

An example of our dedication to helping our customers succeed is this website. It IS the definitive source on signage information, ranked by Alexa^® in the top 0.05% of ALL websites in the world, the top 0.01% in the USA!

We call our website The Knowledge Tree™.  Online since 1997, this website is full of information regarding signs. Our database to create it requires over 8,000 pages; more information than some "encyclopedias."

The website tells you how we manufacture our signage, and why.

Knowledge Tree™ links are on the left side of every page. For instance, click our "Types of Signs" button, then pick any of our products, and explore that page's tabs and discover how we make each sign to last; including the use of CNC manufacturing, rust-proof metal, structural-steel frames, high-end automotive paint, high-impact plastics, and most importantly, sophisticated protective coatings.

Go to our "About" page and select tabs to learn about the history of Signs Manufacturing, and many other subjects.

Unsure, or unconvinced about the importance of signage to the survival and success of a business?  Click our "About" page's "Importance of Signage" tab.

Please use and enjoy this 550+ page website with over 3,000 images, the largest information resource about signs on the internet, created so you can learn about all types of signs and how you can control their affect on your image and business.  Consider "bookmarking" our site as a "favorite" for easier reference later.

We believe that if you're a knowledgeable purchaser there's a real good chance you'll become our customer.

Free Advertising

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Season 8 of the reality TV documentary series about Signs Manufacturing™ featuring the signage we create, and the customers we serve in the DFW Metroplex area of North Texas, is currently being filmed.

Co-star with William, James, Robert, and the whole SignDawgs™ crew.  Every business ever featured on SignDawgsTV^™ continues to operate successfully.  If your business, church, or school, are interested in appearing in this project be sure to tell your salesperson so we can immediately arrange for the producers to contact you.

SignDawgsTV™ is one of YouTube's most successful series, with 2,000,000+ viewers (we've officially gone viral.) Older episodes continue to be viewed over-and-over.

This could be valuable free advertising for you.

SignDawgsTV™ debuts bi-weekly on Tuesdays at 5:00 pm.

You can view all SignDawgsTV^™ episodes @ SignDawgsTV.com

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