Good Morning
Sorry if this thread has been covered I have found a few bits of info but was wondering if my idea would work. So Iam looking at putting some stay alive's in some coaches I have and was thinking of use a bridge rectifier straight of the tracks directly into a dc buck board. Setting the output of the buck board to 4.8v and soldering a 5V 1F super cap direct to the board and then running 2 wires up to a short strip of 5v led tape. Very simple only 3 components does anyone see any problems with that or a better way ideally like to use super caps as will store a lot more power as flickering lights drive me mad.
Is there a board out there that does not need the bridge rectifier 1st ?
Many thanks
Adam
Sorry if this thread has been covered I have found a few bits of info but was wondering if my idea would work. So Iam looking at putting some stay alive's in some coaches I have and was thinking of use a bridge rectifier straight of the tracks directly into a dc buck board. Setting the output of the buck board to 4.8v and soldering a 5V 1F super cap direct to the board and then running 2 wires up to a short strip of 5v led tape. Very simple only 3 components does anyone see any problems with that or a better way ideally like to use super caps as will store a lot more power as flickering lights drive me mad.
Is there a board out there that does not need the bridge rectifier 1st ?
Many thanks
Adam