Repairing a signal

Correct Vr1 display

I have a main signal combined with a distance signal at  the entrance to my main station. I noticed one day that one of the LEDs of the distance signal was not working. When the distance signal is set to Vr1, it should display two green lights:

Faulty Vr1 aspect

But I was only getting one green light, like this:

Creating a replica of a German Light signal

Each year I invite a group of train friends around to visit the layout. Since we live down the end of a dead end road I thought it would be fun to install a signal next to the road for them to see just before they arrive at the house. A distant signal at a neighbor's house would make it nice and prototypical. The plan was to make a simple black board with the required lights in it and run an extension cord to it.



This page describes the steps I took to make the signal and shows how much the plan changed over a couple of weeks.