Can anyone tell me wot is the best and brightest brand of neons,
and where to get em from.
Thanx

i think LED's are the best. try auto barn or jb hi fi

best in car lighting would be ice led

at a hefty pricetag

http://www.iceled.co.uk/

try cold cathodes lighting
http://www.pccasegear.com/category5_1.htm

the flexiglow ones from dicksmith are bright, probably only good for in car tho. I put 2 6" ones in my friends footwells and they light up the inside of the car at night.

best in car lighting would be ice led
at a hefty pricetag
http://www.iceled.co.uk/

Yeah ICE LEDs are the best in Undercar LEDs.
But at a big price!!! The LEDs that I have on my car come close (given the cheaper price). I think they are just as bright but slightly less patterns.

I've been happy with the brightness of mine.

(see posts near the bottom of page 1)...
http://www.aussiemagna.com/forums/showthread.php?t=21750

The reason I like these is that I can select any colour, or get it to cycle through all the colours and it has a remote switch (like a car alarm switch on ya keys) which works from quite a distance too.

if you are interested in any of the Vegas Glow ones, we actually have them on sale at the moment.

Check our section. Cheers.

i still hav mine for sale, they are cold cathodes......but i need a few to place a order for it to be worthwhile for me, as i dont make much profit for each sale.

clicky (http://www.aussiemagna.com/forums/showthread.php?t=18589)

Wow those IceLeds are the bomb... If only Excessive illumination was legal...

Some of their Movies (Demo) are unreal... Very Impresssive.. The Scanner Effect one is sweet as..So many Colors and So Damn Bright..

well it would also depend on the colour your after.

if you do decide to go with LEDs this is what you need too do, i guess your in a 12 volt enviroment so this will work fine.

get your LEDs and wire them in the 100 oHm resistors (4 cents each at Dick Smith stores)

here is the formula
When using a Light Emitting Diode (LED) as an indicator, use the following formula to determine series resistance for various voltages: R = (E - 1.7) x 1000/I, where R is the resistance in ohms, E is the supply voltage (DC) and I is the LED current in milliamps.

Example
to operate the LED at 20mA, for 6V, use 220 ohms

9V use 390 ohms.
12V use 560 ohms (this it the safe limit using 100 oHM reduces light but increase brightness, life is still about 3000 Hours)
24V use 1.2k ohms

as for the LEDs themselves they are avaliable in almost every colour and lighting strength up to about 22000 mcd

Green is the brightest at 20000 - 22000 mcd with red and white at 16000 and blue at 12000.

PLEASE NOTE
Any of these if stared at will blind you, just like an arc welder !!

Hope this helped

(for more info look at http://dseau.resultspage.com/search.php?sessionid=437c398102c7ec0c273fc0a87f9c0 725&site=&w=led)

well it would also depend on the colour your after.

if you do decide to go with LEDs this is what you need too do, i guess your in a 12 volt enviroment so this will work fine.

get your LEDs and wire them in the 100 oHm resistors (4 cents each at Dick Smith stores)

here is the formula
When using a Light Emitting Diode (LED) as an indicator, use the following formula to determine series resistance for various voltages: R = (E - 1.7) x 1000/I, where R is the resistance in ohms, E is the supply voltage (DC) and I is the LED current in milliamps.

Example
to operate the LED at 20mA, for 6V, use 220 ohms

9V use 390 ohms.
12V use 560 ohms (this it the safe limit using 100 oHM reduces light but increase brightness, life is still about 3000 Hours)
24V use 1.2k ohms

as for the LEDs themselves they are avaliable in almost every colour and lighting strength up to about 22000 mcd

Green is the brightest at 20000 - 22000 mcd with red and white at 16000 and blue at 12000.

PLEASE NOTE
Any of these if stared at will blind you, just like an arc welder !!

Hope this helped

(for more info look at http://dseau.resultspage.com/search.php?sessionid=437c398102c7ec0c273fc0a87f9c0 725&site=&w=led)

well except with the above you'd need to protect it all from the weather, make sure there wasnt any hotspots etc etc, just easier going for a kit bit tubes and a controller, and if you bought the right kit you'd also have a wireless controller, so you could manually turn them on/off from outside the car...for bragging rights if u had a good kit :D but i dont think the manual way would b the way 2 go

p.s. yeah only just saw that iceleds page the other day, i would so love the ufo kit with the wheel well things! like $1300 worth tho! :shock: but on the right car, well worth it! did you guys check out the cars on the forums?! mmm

Thanx for all your help :D
Should be doing something about it in the next few weeks