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Originally Posted by David Kaplan
I've been going through all the forums trying to figure out how to power the Kinect on the robot. (I'm leaving the programming question to others...)
I can disconnect the Wall-wart transformer/rectifier and have a cable that gets fed 12VDC. However, how do I connect it to the PDB? The dedicated 12V connector goes to the Wi-Fi. The main outputs have 30A breakers or something ridiculously high for the 1+ amps the Wall-Wart puts out.
Can I get several amp breakers for the PDB? Any other suggestions?
One of our team members thought of using the spike relay as it will take a small fuse, but wouldn't that have to be turned on during initialization... more work for the programmers.
Comments/Suggestions are appreciated.
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One thing to consider is that the PDB doesn't regulate the voltage outputs, so you could potentially end up somewhere in the mid 13V range with a fresh battery or higher.
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"Items specifically prohibited from use on the Robot include:
circuit breakers used on the Power Distribution (PD) Board that are different from the Snap Action breakers provided in the KOP,"
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So you should be able to go down to 20A breakers, but nothing less than that. I don't see why you couldn't make a little regulator circuit for the Panda Board.
If you guys DO get this working, I will have to come by and see it. With an OMAP I guess you'd be running some flavor of Linux and running the SDK. The fun would be in interfacing to the cRIO. LOTS of code. LOTS of time. Good luck to you!
- Bryce
EDIT: WHOOPS! Yep, smaller Snap Actions are allowed. Thanks Justin.