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Re: High Powered Targeting light on amazon

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Originally Posted by AdamHeard View Post
We shotgun ordered a variety initially to get something that was reasonably light/small and also had a nice focused beam.



It runs fine off a 3.3V regulator.

We initially did it on 0 lead time and were forced to do 5V regulator w/ two diodes in series to step voltage down. We ended up continuing all season this way because it was already installed on the robots.

We ended up going through a LOT of spares... not because they break, but because lots of teams at events start wanting them...
Good to know. Good link to have handy.
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