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A long time ago I did a comparison between the different colors of neon with my eldest daughter. It was for a science fair project. We took 7-8 different neon samples (i had a ton at the time) and put a light meter on the various colors. Clear red put out the most light by a good margin. i don't have the info anymore because that was about 30 years ago but it does make sense to put red LED's behind red plex. And we used to put red neon behind red faces - way back when - so red modules behind red faces is logical.

We had a long time Mexican Restaurant customer switch out his clear red 15 mm neon for LEDs. He thought our price was too high for LEDs so he used an unexperienced sign company and they installed cheap white Chinese LEDs behind his old faces. His faces went from red to pink (rosa) at night. Needless to say he wasn’t happy with pink faces… He pointed this out to the other Sign company, but they would not fix it. Plus, they had no clue what they were doing with the parking lot lighting as they tried replacing 400 W metal halide lamps with LEDs. He immediately called us to fix his parking lot lights because he was losing business because his parking lot was dark. He lived with the pink letters at night for a while and just recently hired us to install red LEDs and remove the white ones. He’s happy now with red faces again at night.

Everbrite is the main vendor. The franchisee typically buys direct from them and they ship to site for some one else to install. Though other companies may do Duncan signs, Everbrite is the only one I know that does the menu boards. We do Duncan in New York for several local franchisee's and buy the menu boards from Everbrite.