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Once again, my barely used ez-b is overheating. All the wiring has been checked, the ez-b is sitting on the back of the battery case so no shorts can happen, and all the wiring is tied together held away from the ez-b. I have the following plugged in: 4 standard servos 2 continues rotation servos 1 ping radar 1 camera(hacked)
What could be causing it? Its been working fine before! confused
Note: with out even connecting the ez-b to the computer its heatsink heats up to untouchable temperature. Not even moving the servos!
I tested twice, the second time with my fan blowing on it and still nearly burnt myself.
I removed the battery completely and hot wired it to be powered from EZB. I used the signal wire to turn it on and off. I never had an issue with overheating with this setup. Could be your asking too much from EZB to power the camera and charge the battery. Could be something else like needing a blocking diode between the battery and EZB if you want to keep the camera's battery for any reason.
I read on a few topics that leaving the battery in can cause other camera issues too (not sure what, I just saw it as a problem so removed the battery when I did the mod, I didn't exactly care for the reasons behind it).
Does your way cause the board to heat up?
Never had a hot regulator on either of my EZ-Bs and both have the cameras done this way.
Rich has already stated that his EZB does not heat up and he did remove the camera battery.
Ok I'll do this.
Ok so just solder the ez-b +5 and gnd th the battery in and out?
+5V to Battery +Ve, Ground to battery -Ve, Signal to the switch (if you want to use the signal to turn the camera on and off).