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Re: 5volt not working on power distribution board

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Originally Posted by kinganu123 View Post
Alright so since I'm not at our school right now I'll have to test this tommorrow but other than using a different PDB is there another fix if this is indeed the situation?
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Originally Posted by apalrd View Post
I had this issue on our mule vehicle, and just got 5v from the DSC's sensor power bus. I don't know the current source limit of the DSC's 5v bus, but it's enough to power one camera (with nothing else on 5v power). There is no rule prohibiting this arrangement, although it's sub optimal if you have a lot of sensors and stuff and overload the 5v bus.
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Or not use the 5V connector, providing everything else works and you're not breaking any rules in the process
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