Voltage regulator--how to mount?

[JBotAlan]

Originally Posted by Adam Shapiro

Is it not possible to power it off the RC directly?

I believe because of poor wording that this is not legal under the 2007 rules. However, this is irrelevent (until next year, anyhow) because there is no tech inspection at IRI...I'll just make sure I insulate it well.

I will measure the load of that camera board, possibly tonight, to see if it is going to work for my purposes.

And I'll probably go through with that curiously strong charger. I'm taking a look at MintyBoost to see what I can borrow (steal) from there.

JBot

[John Gutmann]

You can hot glue it.

Now before any body jumps at me, if it gets hot enough to melt the hotglue he has bigger problems then how he is mounting it. I have use a 7805 to regulate down form 9 volts to run a servo that had a big load on it. The regulator got now where nere hot. It got "warm" if you can call it that. it was barely enough for me to feel.

-John

[Dave Flowerday]

Originally Posted by JBotAlan

I believe because of poor wording that this is not legal under the 2007 rules.

It was legal in 2007:
http://forums.usfirst.org/showthread.php?t=1518

[JBotAlan]

Originally Posted by Dave Flowerday

It was legal in 2007:
http://forums.usfirst.org/showthread.php?t=1518

Oh, I know that I had a discussion for awhile during the season here on CD, but I didn't know there had been an official response. Thanks for the link.

JBot