Thread: Using a Battery with Custum OI Box
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Unread 05-02-2007, 04:15
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Re: Using a Battery with Custum OI Box
Anything that does not interface with the joystick ports should be fine. Our team has plans on using a *lot* of LEDs, which will probably be powered off of a 12V battery (for convenience), and controlled by a custom controller connected to a laptop (which is also our dashboard and is connected to the dashboard port on the OI). The control box, though, is powered solely from the joystick ports.

Do realize that you can feed data out of the control box into the robot through the joystick ports, have the robot copy it back to the User bytes, and read it back out from the dashboard port. It has some lag and uses user bytes, but if you really need the information you can always do that.