AW: Mislabelled Regulators

Haible Juergen Juergen.Haible at nbgm.siemens.de
Mon Aug 31 12:16:10 CEST 1998


	>Just built another power supply to test some new modules.  Measured
the
	>output voltages: positive supply 15.11 volts DC Negative -18.3 vDC.
Didn't
	>make sense to me, so I ended up swapping regulators.  Same result.
This
	>made me suspicious.  Replaced the negative regulator again, but
this time
	>from a different manufacturer.  This time the negative rail was -15
volts
	>(close enuff).  Looks like someone sold me a batch of mislabelled
7918s.  I
	>take it someone in Malaysia was feeling underpaid.

Probably not mislabelled, but just more sensitive to oscillation ??

JH.





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