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Help a novice again please, I am confused with where exactly to connect my dropper wires to my Peco electrofrog points. I will be using Tortoise point motors.

Are you doing the usual modification with bridging the rails and switching polarity with the switch in the point motor or relying on the point blades to contact the stock rails?

If you are bridging the rails (and cutting the small connector under the rails - see Brian Lambert’s website for details) then the easiest way is to extend the bridging wires by a few inches and using them as the droppers.

Connect rail feed droppers to the outer Stock rails. Regardless of whether or not the gap in the closure rails have been cut through.
The make of point motor and its incorporated switching has no bearing on where these feeds are connected.

But so as you're sure... Connect the factory fitted frog wire to the Tortoise motors Terminal 4 and the track power feeds to Terminals 2 and 3. If those are already used then use T5 for the frog wire and T6 & T7 for the track power feeds.
Note you may need to reverse the wires in T2 & 3 (or T6 & T7) if there is a short circuit.

Brian, thank you for your help and guidance.