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I like Neons when they are used correctly. Personally I think they look stupid when they are put inside of a sub enclosure. And heres why I think it looks dumb..
9 times out of 10 when you find neons inside of a sub enclosure, whomever the owner is placed a neon inside of a bandpass box behind the plexi-glass. And heres why it looks stupid.. besides just looks, bandpass makes subs sound bad. Yeah yeah, it doesnt work out well, but I hate bandpass dag nabbit.
One cool thing I've seen is wiring up neons in the trunk (not in the sub box!!) on a mercury switch. If you dont know what a mercury switch is, dont worry, neither do it. All I know is that the switch is designed to turn on the lights when the trunk is open, and then turn them off when you shut the trunk. From what I could figure out by looking at it.. the switch operates on the angle of the mercury.. I believe when the trunk is open, the mercury touches something and activates the switch. Its pretty cool stuff.
smackd0wn: How did you wire up your lights in the footwells in the front to turn on when you open the doors? I'd like to try doing that. Once I get my subamp back from Phoenix I'm goin to wire up a 15" blue neon tube in each front footwell. They are gonna be basslights.. but if I could rig them up to also activate when the doors open, that'd be sweet as hell.
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