I have a 12v Wireless camera (500ma w/IR lights) and I use an 8 AA battery cage from RadioShack to make a 12v Battery. I fill it with AA NIMH batteries. This is all mounted on an RC car.
I would like to regulate the voltage so the camera always gets a clean study supply of 12v. I have read about DC-DC converters for most of the morning, but I am not looking build anything. I can solder a couple wires, but that's about it.
Is there something super-easy that will work for me? I am looking for a product, not components to build a board or something. I would realliy like something I could splice or solder between the battery pack and the camera...
I know there are other options like LiPo's boosted to 12v, but I am already overwhelmed and would like to get this working before I tackle something else.
I also have a 9v wireless camera running off of a single 9v NiHM battery that I would like to do the same thing for. I wired 4-9v batteries in parallel but it introduced too much noise and of course was not regulated.
Thank you for any help, I am sure you guys hate it when us know-nothing come in with questions like this, but it is hard to sort through everything on the net, so thanks!
Vaughn
www.vCrib.com
I would like to regulate the voltage so the camera always gets a clean study supply of 12v. I have read about DC-DC converters for most of the morning, but I am not looking build anything. I can solder a couple wires, but that's about it.
Is there something super-easy that will work for me? I am looking for a product, not components to build a board or something. I would realliy like something I could splice or solder between the battery pack and the camera...
I know there are other options like LiPo's boosted to 12v, but I am already overwhelmed and would like to get this working before I tackle something else.
I also have a 9v wireless camera running off of a single 9v NiHM battery that I would like to do the same thing for. I wired 4-9v batteries in parallel but it introduced too much noise and of course was not regulated.
Thank you for any help, I am sure you guys hate it when us know-nothing come in with questions like this, but it is hard to sort through everything on the net, so thanks!
Vaughn
www.vCrib.com