N scale keep alive possibilities?

[LKOrailroad]

Really small super caps announced by Schurter: https://www.electronics-lab.com/schurter-releases-ultra-thin-high-power-coin-cell-supercapacitors



[ Guests cannot view attachments ]

[Sumner]

Interesting but looks like they are limited, the ones posted, to 5.5v.

Sumner

[peteski]

Sumner,
Most Super Caps are rated for around 2.7V.  Most simple Super-cap based keep-alive circuits use several caps rated for 2.7V connected in series to increase their operating voltage.  The more complex keep-alives do use 2.7V rated caps with a DC/DC converter to charge and discharge them using 12V.  These caps could be used directly in those Keep-alives or stacked in series in the  simpler keep-alives.

[Lemosteam]

Really small super caps announced by Schurter: https://www.electronics-lab.com/schurter-releases-ultra-thin-high-power-coin-cell-supercapacitors



(Attachment Link)

In that link there is a link to the Schurter page for them and there are 3D models of each version you can download for design space packaging.

[_trainski]

Curious, would this work well for N scale locomotives? Where could it be placed inside the shell?

[peteski]

Curious, would this work well for N scale locomotives? Where could it be placed inside the shell?

I don't  see why it wouldn't work (but not by itself - multiple caps would be needed to increase the cap's working voltage, and some ancillary components would need to be added). Assuming there is enough available space in the model.