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I've made an alteration to my layout which includes adding another set of points - SL-E186. Due to access issues I cannot fit an under the board motor - even the long reach PL10E.

I have made the normal alterations to the electrofrog and have managed to run the wire from the frog under the board and this will be fixed to a Gaugemaster DCC80 - I find that these always wrok really well.

I've never used a surface mounted point motor before so apologies if this sounds like a daft question but....am I ok to fit a Peco PL11 and control this, as I do with all my other points, with a Peco PL-26B passing contact lever?

I use an old laptop PSU fitted with a Gaugemaster CDU as power which always works well.

Any thoughts or advice would be much appreciated.

Stay safe in these strange times.

Simple answer....yes.

Hi
The surface motor Peco PL11 etc will work exactly the same as any other solenoid motor. A couple of things to ensure are: Mount the motor on the straight side of the point and do not fix it down too tightly.