Hello, A large box has arrived. Uh, it's too big to fit on my desk. but I can show you bits of it. Uh, this is who it's from.

It's from Neon Niip and uh, here's a sneak preview of what it is. It's a neon sign now. I should stress that it's a light emitting Diode neon sign. Uh, not neon tubes.

It's very well packaged. It's got these, uh, extremely thick cardboard edges all around it, so it's extremely well protected. It's going to take a little while to open. So in the box, we have an AC power adapter.

Um, this one gives out DC 12 volts, 5 amps. There's a hanging kit here, some chain and some screws and bits. And then there's this little leaflet, uh, explaining what you get in the box. And uh, here's the main event.

Uh, I can only show you bits of it. That's uh, one of the red bits. That's uh, the yellow bit. There's a green bit and there's a blue bit.

Okay, time to get it unpacked, hung. And then I can show you the neon sign, right? You want to see the sign? Well, here it is welcome to the Sunshine Fun Mine. Yeah, there it is. all lit up in its uh, four.

Colors Let's shut the door actually. Yeah, Welcome to the Sunshine Fun Mine! Uh Sunshine because of course we're running on solar panels and Fun Mine because this is where we mine fun with the mining machines down here. Okay, a little bit on uh, the electrical parameters. So this is 12vt DC and I'm running it from this.

Uh Power, Station And and uh, you can see that on the DC it's pulling just 17 wats so it's only about an amp and a half. Yes, 18 watts would be 1 and 1/2 amps. Uh, so although it's quite bright, it doesn't actually pull that much power. and on the back of the sign, you can see where the cable goes in.

It goes in right in the middle of the sign, which of course, is very sensible from an electrical point of view because the current is distributed equally to all parts of the sign and you can also see these little connecting wires that run between the various sections. This is between the blue and the red section. There's a little pair of wires here between the red and the yellow, and similarly down here between the blue and the green and I. Noticed in this yellow section, you can see, uh, the printed circuit boards which are laid down into the routed uh slots in the acrylic, and you can certainly see the tracks running through there and they've obviously been shaped into those channels.

And although it's not quite so clear in this red section, what you can see in here this long top of the S is that the circuit board appears to be a long section, then a short, then a long section, then a short long short, long short, and so it repeats as it runs around the channel. and now I've pulled out a piece of the colored sort of gel top and we can see the printed circuit board which is a flexible board and you can see how when it goes around the corner it's kind of folded over now clearly says DC 12 Vols red That resistor looks like a 391 so that's 39 90 Ohms and yes, you can kind of see how it's laid out so there's a cut point. Oh I need to get my pointer. Yeah, there's a cut point there.

and oh, that's changing the focus of the camera. And then it appears that we've got three LEDs with one resistor in the middle of the three. so they're in groups of three LEDs with 3 90 Ohm resistor and the LEDs of course are the color of the section where you specify the color you want and illuminated. it looks like this and of course where we can see the individual LEDs there.

Once the gel uh strip has been pushed into those holes, then that blends the dots into a continuous light and if we look at the profile of the pushin sort of rubber strip, it is uh, squishy rubber with an additional piece, the white piece added on with these barbs so that you can push it into the routed slot and it holds itself in that slot. Now the acrylic sheet looks like it's about 5 mm thick and the routed slot looks to me like it probably goes down about 3 mm. So it's deep enough to get that rubber strip in with the barbs uh to hold it in place and with the rubber strip pushed back into the routed. Channel we're back to the continuous line of light now.

Also supplied is this little uh dimmer switch which has various effects like this one face fading in and out. uh if I press the switch that does a full fade right down to dim uh or you can have flashing on and off. but I think I prefer it just illuminated as normal. So big thanks to Neo Nip for my bespoke sunshine fun M Sign uh all the details uh for getting your sign will be in the description below this video.

but for now, Cheerio.