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Re: Powering Arduino

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Originally Posted by Al Skierkiewicz View Post
Under the current rules, you can feed a custom circuit through a small breaker on the PD under R46 with a smaller fuse on the custom circuit. You may not use the power supplies on the PD for anything other than the cRio, radio and camera. A small three terminal regulator and a few components on a small, insulated, custom circuit is an appropriate method of supplying 5 volts to another custom circuit.
Wait a minute, so you can't power a computer off the PDB regulators? (The 5v rail)