Broke my tube and need a replacement, nothings easy anymore . I see they're available as LED but I want to keep the original neon. So if I understand this, the originals are neon, which means they are white when off, colored when on. If they are colored when off, they are argon? Is there a noticeable difference? So anyone know who sells the closest to original neon?

I did check out Bay Area, but in the description it says they remain the same color when off. I thought that meant they are argon? Has anyone tried the ones that Bay area sell? Would love to hear some feedback.
TIA

I got an amazing offer from ralphwiggum that I couldn't pass up, hopefully if it works I can keep the original in there and not worry about a replacement. Thanks Tim! This is Pinside at it's best!

Big Shout out to Tim (ralphwiggum) for going to all the trouble finding the right box, doing a great packing job and sending me his CV neon tube, let's hope it's contagious! Thanks again Tim!

Unfortunately the neon on got from Tim was DOA, regardless it was a nice gesture and much appreciated. I thought I would try the neon from Pinball Center in Germany because he had green but it arrived 5" inches shorter than the original? Anyone else had this happen? I have 2 CV's and both neons are 5"- 6" longer than the one I got from pinball center. He claims I'm the only one, I find that difficult to believe that no one would notice such a big difference in size. Anyway I'll probably try the ones from planetary, they only have yellow and purple left. Thanks again Tim, you tried!

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I did try the transformer and no luck, probably going with the purple neon from Bay area, just to keep it more original, but I'm tempted by the LED replacement, seems a lot easier, but seems I don't do things the easy way

Be careful ordering these from the Pinball Center, I don't see how I could be the only one to complain about such a difference in length. It's not like it's an inch shorter, if you look at the pic it's significant.
thanks again Tim!