@charleybot I also modded my camera with a servo cable... the white wire goes to a DIY socket tied into the switch and the power and ground to a USB plug that goes into the camera. This way I can use the camera as original, fully wireless, or tethered to the EZ-B. I too notice the the regulators heat up with nothing else but the camera... probably because it is charging the battery and drawing the full current that the port can supply.

@Josh You can switch on and off the camera with a digital switch in ARC... but I noticed that to shut off, I have to activate the switch (in ARC) on then off after 1-2 seconds... but I still always check to make sure the blue LED on the camera is off before calling it a day. I also notice that the camera sometimes does tend to turn on automatically when powering up the EZ-B (probably gets a brief signal on EZ-B power-up even if my digital switch is normally off)... as winstn60 said, a bit of trial and error to find the pattern.

Ok so I should remove the battery because it will always have power when the robot is on ?

Yeah I recommend removing the battery but its upto you. I always have one digital port on my EZ-B projects to switch the camera on and off just as Gunner suggests which I just operate once and it stays on until I kill the power to the EZ-B

Thanks for the tip. , just wanted a plan before heating up the soldering iron

Thanks for the responses everyone,

Currently I have the camera back to it's original configuration and upon testing I am able to get about 5fps using different video capture software, is this the normal framerate? I tried to reset the USB dongle which did not make any difference. I have also tried this on 2 different windows 7 pc's and my windows 7 laptop.

If your using it through ezrobot software the max frames is 10 per second. It adjusts based on the speed of your computer

@jstarne1 all the pc's and my laptop are all Core I7 Quad 3GHz and up with 16GB of ram in each. They all run Windows7 64bit. I am starting to wonder if I should re-install the ARC software?

I was just looking at the Win7 application logs, it looks like ARC.exe is having an issue with C:\Windows\syswow64\KERNELBASE.dll? The log has a ton of these messages in it..

@charleybot To the best on my knowledge, the wireless camera from the EZ-Robot kit is not of direct EZ-Robot manufacturer, nor is it's overall performance directly related to the ARC software. I find that it is a great camera for it's price, but do notice some lag between what happens and what I see on screen and sometimes lower FPS, regardless of the PC or viewing program used. This is likely just the nature of the wireless signal fighting its way through all the similar frequencies in and around my place (Three nearby access points all running 2.4GHz)... this might be the same for you?