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.
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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