The latest craze in car
enhancements is the addition of neon lighting. The lights are added to the
underneath, the interior, the license plate, or the windows. The lights
generally have no practical purpose, but are installed to give the car a classy
appearance.
In addition
to the lighting, some like the affects of strobe or flashing neon lights. In
the dark this grabs the attention of just about anyone around. Young people
have contests to see whose souped-up car is, literally, the flashiest.
The lights
are usually either neon or LED. A true neon light is a tube filled with an
inert gas such as neon, argon, or krypton. The type of gas in the clear tube
determines the color: neon is orange, argon is blue, helium is light red,
krypton is nearly white (thus the tube glass can be colored), and xenon is
purple. A charge of a few thousand volts is sent through a small amount of the
gas, producing the color.
An LED
light, on the other hand, requires very little voltage to make the LED (light
emitting diode) glow. These are generally cheaper but do not last as long.
Often the term ‘Neon lights’ is used for any glowing light, whether an LED
light or an inert gas light.
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