Hi,
I'm just about to embark on the track laying for my new layout, and I think I'm going to have to decide what to do about point motors from the outset.
For my other layout, I used Peco point motors with the extra switch, which I used to control the frog polarity. They've been fine, but I thought the switch was a bit flimsy and you have to pay extra for it.
You can get a Seep point motor with an integrated switch, which seems much more attractive. However, they appear to need to be mounted under the baseboard with screws, and I fear this may make them difficult to get "square" with the point above (well, difficult for someone as cack-handed as me, anyway), whereas the Peco ones clip to the point itself.
Does anyone have any experience of the Seep point motors? I'm going to be using DCC (haven't decided which system yet) and I'm going to control the points using some sort of accessory decoder (the only one I know about is the Lenz one). I'd also like to hear about any experiences, good or bad, that people have had controlling the points via DCC.
Just one more question - using DCC is it always better to power the point motors with a seperate feed? And how do you do it? I anticipate that my layout will have approximately 20 points, and it will go around the perimeter of my loft, so it has quite a long track run.
TIA.
Stuart.