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Originally Posted by Greg Marra
Is there some sort of 12V DC -> 120V AC conversion going on somewhere on the robot, or are these being powered by DC current?
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This isn't based on specific information from FIRST or NI, but every 802.11 device I'm familiar with operates on low-voltage DC natively. I seriously doubt there would be any reason to convert to 120 V AC, just so that the stock transformer/switching supply could be used. More likely, we'll see a wire with a barrel plug on the device end, and some generic terminals on the supply end.
There might be a 12 V DC to 5 V DC (for example) conversion somewhere, but the details of something like that would depend on FIRST's implementation. (That's pretty trivial, anyway.)