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Originally posted by BillyBonz
Dentman,
The cameras will fit perfect into the camera bodies from Plantraco. The bodies are cheap but the shipping is $10 since the company is in Canada. I was thinking about buying a bunch of bodies and reselling them. The bodies are $2 per so 20 would cost $40 plus $10 for shipping. That is $2.50 each plus $3.85 for any package under 1 lbs to reship them to anywhere in the 48 states. Since most of you wouldn't need more than a couple bodies and they are light, the shipping would be the same for one or 10 bodies. I'm not interested in making any money off the deal...I just need a few bodies for myself. If you are interested drop me an email at billybonz@hiwaypirates.com or post a reply here. Say TinyRC, you wouldn't be interested in taking this project on would ya? I need 8 bodies just for me.
The cannon-cam battery housing works kinda like a flashlite. The batts just side into the tube. I never ran the batts dead with that setup but I did run it for 3 hours nonstop and they still had plenty of juice left. If you used the Plantraco body I think the camera would fit in it without modding the plug, which I strongly would avoid. Then you could stick with the 9v batt and save a few $$.
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Your idea of reselling the bodies is good, but I live in Europe. So the shipping is much more expensive... Or are there other guys from Europe and we can share the shipping costs?
Today I go to my dentist. They have real cool materials. Maybe itīs possible to "clone" the body somehow or build a case for the cam and the battery.
Yesterday, I disassambled the plug! While disassambling, the wires broke from the circuit and I had to reconstruct which wire on which place...
Plenty of work, but I think it was worth it.
Now I work on a solution with the 9V battery and maybe a custom body. I checked the chassis of the rover and found out, that itīs possible to fix a custom body with 3 screws (2 in the front and 1 in the middle of the rear). That would be the solution, if thereīs no other way out...
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