| ??? 05/19/03 00:10 Read: times |
#45916 - RE: 7805 heating up.... Responding to: ???'s previous message |
You can't get around the laws of physics, Mahmood, P=U*I. In your case it would be (12-3.3)*1.5 = 13.05W. Are you sure the current was really 1.5A or were you thinking about the rating of the regulator (the maximum current it can handle) while the actual current was much lower? |



