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> That regulator is essentially unobtainable for the last couple years. Ironically if you're willing to do some ugly rewiring, there are brand new manufacture T
by cr0sh 9y ago
> That regulator is essentially unobtainable for the last couple years. Ironically if you're willing to do some ugly rewiring, there are brand new manufacture TO-220 package linear regulators that brand new shipped from the mfgr are cheaper than the ebay fake TO-3 regulators, but the rewiring and hole re-drilling is going to be ugly...
If you took the TO-220 package, carefully removed the extra tab of the heatsink, then took one of the fake TO-3 regs and "decapped" the can, removed whatever was inside, then glued the TO-220 using thermal heatsink glue to the case and deadbug wired the TO-220 in place and remounted the cap...
...well, I'm not sure how well that could work, but it's a thought!