What are people's favorite low-dropout linear regulators? ("Jellybean" in the sense of The Art of Electronics -- the ones you want to keep on hand in some quantity.)
"Jellybean" LDO
Nov 29, 2007
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there are so many out there, It's hard to say.. for example. go to mouser.com and do a search there for
"LDO"
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Brew your own with a low saturation voltage device operated in collector output mode and you'll get pretty fine performance.
Graham
Sure, brew your own and when you're done spending all the wasted hours and money. You can then simply get your self an IC for which exist so many that it boggles the mind for pennies on the dollar..
And you call your self a what now?
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On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 21:18:16 -0500, "mc" put finger to keyboard and composed:
FWIW I see a lot of LM1117 variants, eg LD1117, AP1117, etc. Then there are the higher current types such as LT1084/1085.
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