Re: gEDA-user: wrong pinout lm7912 symbol

[Werner Hoch <werner.ho@xxxxxx>]

Hi John,

On Saturday 15 September 2007 15:03, John Luciani wrote:
> On 9/15/07, Werner Hoch <werner.ho@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > 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.
>
> Is the TO92 package for LM79xx or for an LM79Lxx?

Maybe it was a LM79Lxx.

> The dropout voltage on the LM79xx series is fairly high. I would be
> surprised to see it in a TO92 package.

The voltage drop does not care for low current applications, only the  
power does.

Regards
Werner


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