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Unread 24-10-2011, 14:39
daniel_dsouza daniel_dsouza is offline
does what needs to be done.
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Re: The Camera's power cuts in and out when the compressor kicks on

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Originally Posted by Mark McLeod View Post
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.
We had a similar issue in the during 2011 during competition. When we submitted our robot for inspection, the inspector pointed out that our robot frame wasn't fully isolated. The most obvious instance he found was the camera mount. To make to our match, we had to take it off to pass inspection. We had it mounted with the stock plastic pole.

I don't remember how we fixed the problem, but I believe it involved the the wires supplying power to the metal base plate of the camera, and along a metal bolt in the plastic assembly.

However, our camera was still working properly, but we didn't have a compressor.