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Re: DS Power Source
I've been running ours off a 9.6v Vex battery with an adaptor to the barrel connector used by the DS.
You can do the same with AA batteries in a 12v cluster.

If you ever built a battery supply for the old IFI Operator Interface that works with the new DS too.
Although it seems to work at least down to 9v, I'd probably upgrade it to use 12v.




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