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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