How to install Peco PL-10 Point Motors to a model railway! | Horton Common Update

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@4kandles
@4kandles 5 ай бұрын
Excellent video! .. you have opened my eyes to fitting the point motor directly onto the point itself without the need for a mounting plate .. many many thanks :)
@hortoncommonmodelrailway
@hortoncommonmodelrailway 5 ай бұрын
To be fair, I scrapped the idea of fitting the motor directly to the point, I now drill a 8mm hole centre and use mounting plates and PL10-E motors trimming the pin to size after checking using a slitting disc in a mini drill. It vastly improved the operation of the layout at exhibitions
@duncanrhodes4778
@duncanrhodes4778 9 ай бұрын
This is great, really well explained and detailed. Now I need the next bit, connecting the wired point motor to a switch. And maybe one day soon I will actually get started on laying track! Thank you for this video, much appreciated.
@hortoncommonmodelrailway
@hortoncommonmodelrailway 9 ай бұрын
Negative wire from the transformer to the switch, centre connection, positive wire to the point motor loop - hmmmm might be easier to produce another video, then you can watch it being done, would that be easier and more beneficial for you? It's really easy once you've done one.
@hortoncommonmodelrailway
@hortoncommonmodelrailway 9 ай бұрын
We are going to produce a new video this weekend showing how we wire up our print motors to operational switches and hope this will prove useful for you and many others.
@duncan1945
@duncan1945 Жыл бұрын
I would just like to say a big thank you for your video. I have just bought 2 PL-10s and hadn't a clue how to wire them up even with the little drawing. I have looked at many videos but yours is the best I've seen. So thanks again. All the best Duncan.
@hortoncommonmodelrailway
@hortoncommonmodelrailway Жыл бұрын
Glad you found it informative Duncan, only too happy to help, we just installed our first PL10E and proved interesting, even though we said we didn't use them , we may show a video on that later too, thanks for your comment
@gersonfer
@gersonfer Жыл бұрын
Thank you for the explanation. As a newbie I had much appreciated it.
@hortoncommonmodelrailway
@hortoncommonmodelrailway Жыл бұрын
Pleased it was useful for you
@johnpearson8382
@johnpearson8382 7 ай бұрын
I can only agree with the comments below! looked at a number of videos on this subject but nothing as clear and detailed as this one. I also need now to see the next part of the wiring up to controller so many thanks. might be simple to some but others like me need a bit more by way of explanation.
@hortoncommonmodelrailway
@hortoncommonmodelrailway 7 ай бұрын
Thank you for your kind comments, we recently produced a video explaining how to wire up the point to a switch and how to also wire one to a colour light signal
@billmoore1936
@billmoore1936 6 ай бұрын
Wiring the point motors is really easy to do as long as you have two books from Peco when I have finished my I have 40 working points
@boatman909
@boatman909 2 ай бұрын
It must be an age thing (70+) as this is how i prefer to wire up my PL-10s. Although as i generally mount my trackwork on top of 2” sheets of expanded styrene, cutting the hole is much easier!
@hortoncommonmodelrailway
@hortoncommonmodelrailway 2 ай бұрын
Excellent idea, thank you for that
@robfern4580
@robfern4580 Жыл бұрын
THANKYOU the wiring was educational JOhn Robertson AUstralia
@hortoncommonmodelrailway
@hortoncommonmodelrailway Жыл бұрын
I'm glad you found it educational, thank you for your kind words. Thank for watching.
@hortoncommonmodelrailway
@hortoncommonmodelrailway Жыл бұрын
Hi, thanks for your comment, really pleased you found the information of use,
@billmoore1936
@billmoore1936 6 ай бұрын
From Bill is a case of red goes to red green goes to green black goes to black all your greens loop then together with terminal blocks ready sample Bill
@MarkJT1000
@MarkJT1000 6 ай бұрын
I don't know. I looks like a lot of extra work for not much benefit. Plus although you want that hole to be snug, it has to be spot on to ensure that the points track meets up perfectly with the adjacent track pieces when you put it back. Very little margin for error.
@hortoncommonmodelrailway
@hortoncommonmodelrailway 6 ай бұрын
Fair point (sorry) but this was just an idea, and suited me at the time, yes it was alot of hard work, I didn't go for IKEA perfection as to fit, as I wasn't too exact,and actually a heck of alot of room for error, which subsequently changed my mind in fitting them and I ended up removing the points for a totally different layout plan as I realised I'd made a grave mistake in the planning, therefore resulting in.my having to plug the holes with mdf pieces cut to shape, fixed into the hole and plugged securely with filler. however........as things progressed on the redesigned layout, I did indeed end up just drilling a hole for an extended pin PL10-E point, attached from underneath with an adapter plate and trimming the pin length to size, which was discussed in another video. Thanks for your comment
@katietaylor4452
@katietaylor4452 Жыл бұрын
I can't understand how it takes 31 minutes to explain something so simple
@hortoncommonmodelrailway
@hortoncommonmodelrailway Жыл бұрын
Well I mean no offence when I say this but no one is forcing you to watch it. You clicked on your own accord. If you want to watch a shorter video then by all means you can. I've also provided chapters for viewers who are only looking for particular parts so no one has to watch all 31 minutes.
@hortoncommonmodelrailway
@hortoncommonmodelrailway Жыл бұрын
Please also remember that what may be eay for you, isn't necessarily easy for others who are just coming into the hobby, none of us are pedigree experts, "every day is a school day" and we all learn from one another, it took me decades to perfect some areas of my learning progress and I'm still learning, criticise by all means, but try to make it constructive so we can all benefit. Thank you
@OJHussick
@OJHussick Жыл бұрын
​@@hortoncommonmodelrailway Whilst I totally appreciate the initial comment was a little barbed (as well as accurate), and it's natural for your response to be a little pointed too, even if nobody is forcing us to watch, you, as a content creator, ultimately do want us to watch. That's the whole point. I have to admit, even I watched this on 1.5x speed, because of the over-explanation of every salient point. I appreciate this is a tendency amongst KZbinrs (and model railway enthusiasts too - we are nerds, after all), but you might want to think about whether you need to explain how rasps and desolder-suckers work..... all those subplots and sidebars consume time, and contribute to the overall length of a video, which is, as the original commenter said, over half an hour to explain cutting a hole and fitting a motor (as per or even in contravention of Peco's instructions). Not proposing a 60 second video that says "Cut hole, install motor" but I'm sure there's a happy medium between too much brevity and an entire episode of electrical fiddling.
@hortoncommonmodelrailway
@hortoncommonmodelrailway Жыл бұрын
@@OJHussick Thank you for your comment, to save any lengthy dialogue I should point out I am the commentator and over 40 years of teaching and lecturing does tend to be a bit of a habit and admittedly there may have been over explaining for some, forbwhich i apologise, but every day is a school day and so long as someone learned from it then I am happy and my aim was fulfilled so, let's just leave it as it is, I accept your point ( excuse the pun) and proud that it had 3.7 thousand views, and that we put a line now under the whole thing, thank you for your comments.
@colinporter6067
@colinporter6067 Ай бұрын
After cutting hole u put twinstick patch over slit with knife for pin then fit point once happy ballast straight on top of twinstick job done no hole all covered
@hortoncommonmodelrailway
@hortoncommonmodelrailway Ай бұрын
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