This is what I'm considering at the moment.
http://www.opussolutions.com/product/164/DCA5_080_512__80W_.html
The bus already had a website, so I haven't really posted any pictures of it. Here is the site from when it was originally converted. There are some differences since then and it is a little more worn, but is still in great shape.
http://www.skewly.com
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Working from memory, the Arduino's voltage regulator can work with
anything from 6V up to 24V, right?
If you want to see a killer school bus project, by the way, take a
drive up Forrest Ave. in east Nashville, between 14th and 16th St.
Can't miss it. (Red and white, with a chopped van serving as a...
loft? towards the rear of the bus.)
-Andrew
On Dec 6, 11:55 pm, Tim Moses <t...@moses.com> wrote:
> I recently bought a bus and am about to add an Arduino to act as a monitoring/warning system. Do any of you have suggestions for getting clean power for an Arduino off the starter batteries? A secondary purpose may be to power a USB hub to act as a phone charging station. I'd like to avoid going DC to AC to DC.
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> This is what I'm considering at the moment.http://www.opussolutions.com/product/164/DCA5_080_512__80W_.html
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> The bus already had a website, so I haven't really posted any pictures of it. Here is the site from when it was originally converted. There are some differences since then and it is a little more worn, but is still in great shape.http://www.skewly.com
The Opus is definitely overkill for just the Arduino, but would kind of solve the problem once and for all for whatever I might want to hook up later.
I actually met the guy who owns that bus. He works at Pep Boys on Charlotte and helped me out when I was looking for parts.
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