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Originally Posted by dmitch
My team has used the 5V output on the PDB and it worked just fine. We were using the power for last yrs router before we got this yrs power set up.
However, this is NOT legal in competition. My understanding is that you have to go through the power converter...but it works fine for testing.
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The reason it's not legal is that the 5v camera output isn't up-regulated. Your router would lose power when the battery voltage sags below seven volts or so, which it
will do under heavy load. The dedicated 12v output stays there even with the battery input down to about three volts. The cRIO will disable all the robot outputs when it sees the battery voltage that low, but you won't lose communication.