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Re: Cmucam overheating

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Originally Posted by Oumonkey View Post
...The overheating of that IC is what I'm concerned about...
Are you talking about the voltage regulator? If it's getting very hot, you might have mounted the camera to the pan/tilt assembly without enough spacers and ended up shorting the board to the aluminum.

How exactly are you powering the camera?