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Re: CAM2 - Standalone

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Originally Posted by Greg Marra
I highly recommend feeding it exactly the correct voltage (5V) instead of "at least 5 volts". You really don't want to fry a $200 piece of hardware.

The CMU cam has a 5V voltage regulator in it.

According to the manual "CMU2 requires 6-15 volts of DC power capable of 200mA of current"

I have run it at 5v off the RC and it works fine.
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