Instructions for installing Goldcap capacitor

1.) The picture shows the associated components: wires for cabling (e.g., Brawa Flexible Litze), an LED strip from Schönwitz, and two contact springs for the bogies.

2.) The contact springs on the bogies can be seen. The wires are soldered to the springs, one wire at a time.

Do not swap the axles during installation! They must be installed in pairs with the insulated side facing up.

If there is no hole in the car floor, you can drill a hole through the car floor at each bogie using a 2mm drill bit. The wires are then fed through the hole into the car's interior.

3.) This picture shows how the wires are fed into the interior.

4.) The wires are soldered to the LED strip's rectifier. It doesn't matter which wire is soldered to which terminal.

5.) Measure the voltage of the lighting board and adjust it to approximately 5V using the potentiometer. Finally, solder the gold cap to the board with the correct polarity, i.e., negative to negative and positive to positive.

6.) You can see how the capacitor is connected in the enlarged image of this picture. During the first charging process, it takes some time (a few minutes) for the Goldcap to charge. Only then does the lighting begin to glow. Once the Goldcap is charged, the interior lighting stops flickering and continues to glow for some time. This is also very useful for analogue railway enthusiasts, as the cars continue to glow in the station area, for example, even when there is no power on the track.