[sdiy] TO-3 regulator issue

[James Patchell]

The pinouts are different on the 7815 and 7915 TO3 packages.

Just a fact of life.

At 03:45 AM 10/28/2004 -0500, Pat Kammerer wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>Just a quick pondering...
>
>Has anyone ever run into the issue where you have two TO-3 regulators, both
>of which have different pinouts?
>
>That's what happened to me today.  I bought one surplus 7815, and the 7915
>was out of stock, so I ordered that from mouser.  Now I think I'll need to
>get the 7815 from mouser too.
>
>Anyone have some creative idea here, short of cutting the heatsink in half?
>
>Pat

         -Jim
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