[Drok00]

we actually just did the exact same thing you are talking about yesterday and ended up frying the nice new $200 camera board... we hooked the pwm cable up to the 7.2 volt battery and plugged it into the camera itself, we then plugged the serial cable into the computer and im not entirely sure what happened ( our programmer was playing around with it but i saw the setup and talked to him afterwards) he said he jsut turned it on, and then i saw this giant cloud of magic smoke... ( and he reacted rather slowly... so the smoke continued to pour out) i would not suggest not running it through the RC!! set it up through the RC for power if you can.. unless he did somehting wrong when setting it up ( i dont think he did) frying it could be a real possibility!