On 2008-12-02, Brian Gregory [UK] wrote:
"geoff" wrote in message
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geronimo wrote:
Hello all, it was just a bad batch of 7805s!
Possibly a 'fake' device.

I've a vague idea that I remember a 7905 accidentally fitted instead of a
7805 did something very similar in something I was working on.

hmm, yeah, given a 12V supply and no load you'd get that.