Dapol Imperium 6p decoder substitute.

I've received my Dapol BR/SR Class B4 loco from Rails, seems a nice little loco, runs beautifully with (according to the supplied "Owners Manual") no need to run in the loco. It's a bit of a 'faff' to fit a decoder, 4 tiny screws to remove the bottom plate, turn back the NEM pockets to expose another 2 tiny screws to finally ease off the body. Then you find that a standard 6 pin decoder is way too big!
Dapol recommend their own 'Imperium 6p' decoder ( no surprise there) but it's been said in print many times " don't buy decoders from the big model manufacturers", Hornby being a perfect example of what not to buy in my experience, but looking on the Dapol website it seems that this particular decoder is not even listed! I need a 6 pin decoder for this loco, but the decoder body (not including the pins) maximum size is only 10mm long to fit into this loco. I can (and have) removed entire circuit boards from some loco's to create space but I'm loth to do this with this particular loco, bearing in mind past problems Dapol have had with some of their electronics, since obviously this would void the warranty.
So, here's the question, does anyone know of a suitable alternative 6 pin decoder of a size that would fit this loco, from a known decoder manufacturer rather than Hornby/Bachmann/Dapol, maximum body length 10mm,(excluding pins) width no more than the 6 pin plug itself, and as thin as possible?
Keith.

 

The Xen would be too long a body length to fit the space Toto, as looking at your pic, it'd be around 13mm plus pins, and although the Lenz Silver mini at 10.6mm ought to fit, it might well be tight, and I can't find any stockists listing the Dapol one anyway. I've looked at the CT Elektronik decoder suggested by SR Man (I also used one of these decoders in my Wickham Trolley) and this looks to be the best (and smallest) option, but Coastal DCC are out of stock so I'll have to look around and see if there are any other dealers with stock, including the German ones. Thanks to all for your advice, and Toto for the offer of the Xen decoder (enjoy your hols Toto!).
Keith.

 

Hi Kim.
I took a couple of pics yesterday, one of the loco chassis with part of the body in the background, and a second pic showing the size of the DC plug, which gives an indication of the required decoder size. Here's the chassis pic.



The DC plug is the green bit at the left hand end of the circuit board.

 

This gives you a better idea of the required decoder size!

 

Incidentally, I bought my loco from "Rails" Sheffield, same price as Hattons but post free. I guess I could have driven over and collected it as it's only about 14 miles away, but if you're interested in ordering one, I doubt it'd be 'Freepost' to Oz Kim!
Keith.

 

I could easily hard-wire it Kim, but with the reported problems with some of the other Dapol products, I'm a bit reluctant to do that as I doubt they'd honour a warranty if I'd done that then had a problem.......don't want to give them a "Get out clause!"
Keith.