New UniFi Micro Video Camera
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@MattSpeller said:
5.5v 3.5w - not going to be battery powered very easily. That's a bummer with the magnetic base, you could get very creative with placement if it drew less juice.
Sadly the data sheet doesn't seem to tell you what kind of cable it needed. If it's a special cable,.. eh.. maybe. if it is a USB type cable.. then you can work with that...
Of course - I'm kinda crazy enough to try to engineer and hack my own cables...
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@g.jacobse Oh, it's some barrel connector, I assure you. It's not hard to make a pack for it, just need a HUGE pack to make it even 24h. You'd be burning ~2 NIMH AA's per hour
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@MattSpeller said:
5.5v 3.5w - not going to be battery powered very easily. That's a bummer with the magnetic base, you could get very creative with placement if it drew less juice.
Sounds like it it might be usb power. So you could use a USB battery pack. Not exactly small though, and most cost more than this camera.
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@thecreativeone91 Nah, it'll be an off the shelf barrel connector - cheap as chips, super common.
You could make a USB pack work with it easily enough*, just need a big ass one for any worth while time frame. Granted it says "3.2w max" so maybe if you're lucky it's around 2w steady state.
*providing it'll accept slightly less than 5.5v (and it likely will)
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@MattSpeller
Nah - just use old laptop batteries... I have gone through about a dozen so far and have about 30 cells from them.... They are 18650 cells, and you can get a charger from Amazon for them.... I have a headlamp and flashlight that will use them...Also have a Cell phone booster that iwll use them... nice and useful, and recycling...
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@MattSpeller said:
@g.jacobse Oh, it's some barrel connector, I assure you. It's not hard to make a pack for it, just need a HUGE pack to make it even 24h. You'd be burning ~2 NIMH AA's per hour
You could do lipo's if you care to solder around those bad boys. I've done it a few times before. But, It's not something I like doing. Testing my luck too much.
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@MattSpeller said:
*providing it'll accept slightly less than 5.5v (and it likely will)
Heck I doubt their own adapter even puts out 5.5v exactly. It would be pretty poor engineering without a 5% tolerance.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
You could do lipo's if you care to solder around those bad boys. I've done it a few times before. But, It's not something I like doing. Testing my luck too much.
Oh man, don't solder them!! I do the same thing, scavenging 18650's. You can get cheap 4 cell holders on ebay for ~$1.50/ea
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Because I'm trying desperately to ignore what I should be doing....
4x 18650's gets you 3.7v*4=14.8v in series, better still a series / parallel pack for 7.4v
Assuming your 18650's are as crap as mine, you're looking at 1000mah/cell = 7.4v@2000mah
Using a 7805 to drop the voltage and assuming zero losses for your circuitry (because your batteries are probably better than 1ah) we get the camera consuming [email protected]=0.58a
0.58a/2ah = 3.5h run time
hopefully I did the math right.
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@MattSpeller said:
0.58a/2ah = 3.5h run time
And whatever you were trying to record will happen at 3hrs and 37 min. Right after it cuts out at 3hr 36min.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
And whatever you were trying to record will happen at 3hrs and 37 min. Right after it cuts out at 3hr 36min.
lol you've done this before I see
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@MattSpeller said:
@thecreativeone91 said:
And whatever you were trying to record will happen at 3hrs and 37 min. Right after it cuts out at 3hr 36min.
lol you've done this before I see
Uhm,.. I don't think I would admit... Although I have had a few conversion project I do work,...until all the smoke is gone. Because it's the smoke that makes it run in the first place. let it out,.. and it'll stop working
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