Description: This recall involves neon power supply transformers designed to power commercial signs. They are in black metal boxes about 4.5 inches long by 3.5 inches wide with rows of vents on ...

Berger said about 200 tubes of neon and 20 transformers help light up the signs. While the front may look brand new, the back is still the same as it was in 1976.

In the 1930s and ’40s, neon lights screamed exciting night life, beckoning customers to bars, late-night coffee shops and dance halls. In the years following, the signs fell out of favor.

The neon sign transformer, Marx generator, or voltage multiplier was the hard part of the project. But nowadays you can get cheap high voltage modules that are quite inexpensive.