LED Neon Flex vs. Glass Neon: A 16-Year Factory Vet’s Brutal Cost, Energy, and Lifespan Comparison

I watched a pizza joint owner cry last month. Not a figure of speech. Actual tears. He’d opened his shop six weeks earlier with a gorgeous “Slice” sign made from 15mm amber glass neon. Looked fantastic. Two weeks in, the transformer started buzzing like a trapped hornet. By week five, half the “S” was dark. His electrician told him the whole thing needed a $700 tube replacement and a new UL-listed transformer for another four hundred. The sign cost him $1,800 to start. He was

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