Re: gEDA-user: wrong pinout lm7912 symbol

[Werner Hoch <werner.ho@xxxxxx>]

Hi Ales,

On Tuesday 11 September 2007 21:06, Ales Hvezda wrote:
> > > How do you know that this pinout is correct?  What other packages
> > > does an lm7912 come in other than TO-220?  There isn't a
> > > footprint= attribute in the original symbol.  My concern is
> > > breaking existing user schematics.

You're right, but changing the pinnumbers without setting the footprint 
might cause confusion the next time someone stumbles over the pin 
numbers.

> > You should be fairly safe with the pinouts of the LM79xx and LM78xx
> > since they are older parts and the variety of power dissipation
> > packages is small.

There's a TO92 package out there, too.

> Werner, please feel free to push this fix into the repository.  Also,
> thank you for setting the footprint= and symversion= attributes.  The
> symversion= attribute will alert any existing users that this symbol
> has changed.

Yes, symversion is always a good thing.

Regards
Werner


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