A lift without a remote instruction
The POWER Lever 26186 can lift a marble by roughly four height blocks and reset for another marble. In its autonomous mode, the official service guide describes a white light: an arriving marble activates the element. That is a sensible starting point when the job is simply to lift a marble arriving at that place in a track.
The individual product contains one Lever and instructions. It requires two AAA batteries, which are not included. A Trigger or Controller is a separate accessory; buying the Lever alone is not the same as buying a complete remotely signalled arrangement.
On a colour channel, it becomes a receiver
The Lever can also operate as a receiver on a coloured channel. Ravensburger names the Controller, Trigger and Finish Trigger as transmitters, and the elements must share the selected red, green or blue channel to communicate. The useful planning question is therefore not merely which pieces are POWER products, but which one sends the event and which one responds.
A second receiver does not become a transmitter because it is nearby. The service guide says each receiver needs its own transmitter signal to trigger an action. Draw the intended signal path before adding another element: it can expose a missing sender more clearly than collecting several motorised pieces first.
Leave somewhere for the lifted marble to go
Ravensburger recommends straight track immediately after the Lever; an immediate corner can send the marble against an edge and out of the track. It also recommends a Queue Tile before the element. Keep those local relationships in the layout as well as the colour channel. A working idea needs an arrival, a lift and a continuation—not just a powered component placed at the most impressive spot.
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