min - max V to feed Gluonpilot

[lukasz]

Tom, what is the minimal and maximal voltage accepted by gluonpilot?
I'm searching for a BEC that would power gluonpilot + servos + GPS + xbee.

Most of the 5v bec have 4,8 - 5,5 V range - depending on how much A is being pulled.

[Tom]

For your hardware version, everything is behind a voltage regulator.
Minimum 5V, maximum I'd say 5.5V

For the new hardware version, the minimum voltage will be 3.5V

[lukasz]

Do you have any BEC that you could recommend?
I noticed that some BEC that have in their spec 5V sometimes provide more or less V.
For example some Turnigy 3A bec provide 5,5V instead of 5V.

Maybe any of gluonpilot users have a BEC that they use in their set up and could recommend it?

[Tom]

If you plan to buy the extension board you won't need a BEC. It will be integrated into the extension board. Just add your battery input, and it will convert it to 5V and measure the input voltage at the same time!

[lukasz]

Great!
As I wrote some time ago, I'm interested in it.
What is the max A output?

[Rico21]

Hi Tom,

On the extension board you mentioned XBEE in the forum. I'm interested by this board can you say me if XBEE is integrated on the board or it has a special connector for XBEE modules? I need to buy modules now, but I need to be sure they will be usable on the extension board .

Thanks for answer

[Tom]

It will be possible to do that, but I don't recommend it. I will use it for testing or on my quadrocopter (using a low power TX)
If you place a strong transmitter in your plane, it should be as far as possible away from your GPS and RC-receiver as possible. So in this case I'd recommend to buy a separate board for the XBee just like Lukasz did:
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