Neil has got back to me and solved the problem:
“Camera and bits and pieces arrived safely this morning. It did
not take long for me to find out that the problem is that you either have to
feed 6V into the battery bay or at least 7.0V into the DC plug! Very strange,
but that's what we have to work with. Since I know that you did not want me to
modify the camera at all, I have instead modified your controller so that now
it outputs 7.30V - fortunately there was just enough space to fit the extra
components required. Everything is set up next to me now and working perfectly
turning the camera on and off no problems at all, and should therefore work
perfectly for you once you have re-programmed it to automatically shoot an
image on power-up. For future reference, the camera and circuit board together
draw a total of around 300mA @ 12VDC when the camera is on, and less than 10mA
the rest of the time.”
With luck I should be in a position to start the full scale
trial this weekend…
“Camera and bits and pieces arrived safely this morning. It did
not take long for me to find out that the problem is that you either have to
feed 6V into the battery bay or at least 7.0V into the DC plug! Very strange,
but that's what we have to work with. Since I know that you did not want me to
modify the camera at all, I have instead modified your controller so that now
it outputs 7.30V - fortunately there was just enough space to fit the extra
components required. Everything is set up next to me now and working perfectly
turning the camera on and off no problems at all, and should therefore work
perfectly for you once you have re-programmed it to automatically shoot an
image on power-up. For future reference, the camera and circuit board together
draw a total of around 300mA @ 12VDC when the camera is on, and less than 10mA
the rest of the time.”
With luck I should be in a position to start the full scale
trial this weekend…
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