3046 BURNOUT

[Paul Perry]

At 09:41 AM 24/05/00 +0100, Ken MacBeth  wrote:
>I'm still trying to work out a way to use standard 1
>amp regulators ( 7812's) as opposed to the 500mA (
>78M12's) as used in the Moog Prodigy. In the osc
>'heated chip' section, the use of 1 amp types, causes
>the LM3046 to blow...

Something must be wrong with the ckt, because it
would be VERY BAD practice to rely on the regulators 
to act as current limiters in any way!! True, the 78 
regulator series have automatic cutoff when they overheat,
but you would never put together a circuit relying on this.

The LM3406 must be sucking too much current, for some reason,
nothing to do with the regulator as such.

paul perry melbourne australia