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Re: Onboard Flashlight

We just hooked it up to the PDB through a few 7801 voltage regulators. We ended up not using it for competition because the light that we had selected was perfect for our vision code people (it was even the right shade of green!), but was not focused enough for manual targeting. (Sorry, I don't have a product number, but it was originally intended to be mounted on a gun or something.)
We should have ran it through a spike relay, but did not have the time. I will also say that even running our light through two 1-amp 7805s run in parallel with a heatsink was not enough to power the light for more than a minute or so without getting scary hot.