"Gareth Magennis" wrote in message
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I've been in touch with Sherwood America, who said "the
regulator may become too hot to touch and possibly fail".
William



Well there you go, the manufacturer has backed up your observations that
this regulator does indeed run very hot. Its not that uncommon to find
this kind of thing.

Stick a heatsink on it. Job done.



Gareth.

Sherwood makes receivers for many others, and there is a common problem the
past several years with cheap fixed regulators failing. Mostly 79 series 12
and 15 volt regs but also 78 series positive types. They are heatsinked, but
fail anyway.

Mark Z.