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Re: The Camera's power cuts in and out when the compressor kicks on

I saw behavior like this in one team's camera. I didn't fully isolate it, but I was able to run the camera using the standard power supply off AC and get it to misbehave stand-alone. Swapping in a new camera on the robot also worked fine in that one case.

That just eliminated the robot power system as a culprit. It still could have been anything from a bad power connector on the camera to a damaged camera.
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