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I had a customer who has a neon sign that part of it went dead ! I go over check it out 1piece dead neon and 1 dead transformer!! It's a large sign using 2 transformers ! I repump neon and replace trans. now other half of sign wont light there was cheep trans.on there to start with I replaced mine with a allison !! so on the other half I told them looks like that trans is going bad also! they paid $1800.00 for this sign 3 yrs. ago and they just put $300. more in to it! but they dont want to put another 90 bucks into other trans, THEY are going to save their money and buy a NEW sign!! ???? ok they dont want to spend a 100 bucks but they will spend 4or5 hundred on a new on !! make good sence to me !!!
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Here's one for ya Mike... Customer has a pylon sign with neon..not originally built for surface mounted neon but adapted with PK housings through the aluminum structure. The problem is when the pylon flexes in the wind the neon snaps where it goes into the housings. You'll go out pull a piece of neon jump the housing and take the neon home for repair, when you get back with the new piece more are broken so you install your new piece take the broken piece with you and repeat as often as necessary til you finally get it all working again...then when the wind blows you start all over again. I've tried to turn down the work but the customer keeps calling..he refuses to call the guy that built the sign. All the transformers in the sign were installed used so most of them have been replaced. This sign is about three years old and probably has not worked in it's entirety more than 60 days. The client always pays for the repairs but everytime I have to listen to how much he paid for the sign and why does it keep breaking..I don't see any way to take the flex out of the pylon..I'm thinking the next step would be to surface mount the neon with turnbacks instead of going into PK's..I probably should have done this the first time out but I really didn't figure out the problem immediately. Any suggestions?
Dave
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