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Re: CMUCam and low voltages
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Originally Posted by Mike Betts
The end result was that, when robots got into shoving matches, the main battery voltage would collapse to the point that the RC controller would reset. This was not viewed as a feature by those of us using the controls...
If you were to power the camera off the 12V bus, the CPU on the camera would reset in the middle of a match. You would loose all calibration information and the camera would be useless for the remainder of the match... Most of us would not enjoy this either...
Therefore, we power the camera off of the backup battery...
Mike
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Mike,
If I'm not mistaken, the Radio Modems are powered off the backup battery as well. If you lost them during a match, it would not be a good thing either.  Please correct me if I'm wrong.
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