Saturday, February 13, 2010

Camera Ready

Finally figured out the camera problems I was having. When the camera was first turned on to record, it created a spike which overload my anyvolt micro. This caused a momentary drop off in the voltage which caused the camera to stop recording. I replaced the any volt with the larger version and it mainted the load. I also had to use a 8AA battery pack and got over 3.5 hours of recording. That was with alkaline batteries, with lithium it should last even longer. The disadvantage is the weight. We are going to have 16 batteries on board now. 8 on the Camera, 8 for the aprs/gps beacon.

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