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Originally Posted by Mike Betts
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...
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The camera runs off of 7.2 volts. We built a reguator circuit to power the camera at exactly 7.2 volts off of the main battery, and didn't notice any problems. If anything, it was more stable.
I think if your main battery drops below 7.2 volts at any time, it is probably not fully charged. However, I could be wrong...
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