While rummaging I found these colour signals, which I no longer need. Those of you who have or have had one of these will know that as supplied they have incandescent bulbs fitted, and reed switch circuitry to change from red to green light which is triggered by a magnet moving in front of the reed switch, which in turn is moved by a custom LGB point motor. This is either a very clever way of using point motors to be consistent with their other semaphore signals, or a bit "Heath Robinson" depending on your point of view.
I decided to change them to LEDs, wired in such a way that there are only two leads, and you just reverse the polarity to change the colour, no motor being required. You can then connect them to a Massoth accessory decoder, for example, configured for continuous light output at 5v. There are no resistors in the circuit so you would have to include one of those as per usual for LEDs. Of you could rewire them back to the LGB method (magnets included) or just use them as dummy signals. Note that the motors are NOT included and these are NOT boxed.
The one on the right is in quite good state, the one on the left has been through the wars, with both mast head and base removed at some point in its life, and the front clip-on step is missing. £10 for both signals plus P&P which I estimate as £3 to UK mainland address. Also for sale is an LGB RhB buffer (grey), listed separately, happy to combine P&P if you take both.
Close up of the right hand mast head
This is the left hand one, as you can see it is "battle scarred"...
I decided to change them to LEDs, wired in such a way that there are only two leads, and you just reverse the polarity to change the colour, no motor being required. You can then connect them to a Massoth accessory decoder, for example, configured for continuous light output at 5v. There are no resistors in the circuit so you would have to include one of those as per usual for LEDs. Of you could rewire them back to the LGB method (magnets included) or just use them as dummy signals. Note that the motors are NOT included and these are NOT boxed.
The one on the right is in quite good state, the one on the left has been through the wars, with both mast head and base removed at some point in its life, and the front clip-on step is missing. £10 for both signals plus P&P which I estimate as £3 to UK mainland address. Also for sale is an LGB RhB buffer (grey), listed separately, happy to combine P&P if you take both.
Close up of the right hand mast head
This is the left hand one, as you can see it is "battle scarred"...
