Re: Voltage regulators in parallel?

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From: Gerald Vernon Nelson
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 03:44

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In <9212170609.AA07808@gaak.LCS.MIT.EDU> jpexg@gaak.LCS.MIT.EDU (John Purbrick) writes:

>I want to set up a power supply delivering more current than an integrated
>voltage regulator (LM78xx if fixed, or LM317 if variable) will provide. It

>John Purbrick
>jpexg@lcs.mit.edu

hy don't you use a pass transistor to boost the current.
Any decent data book on the 78xx series will have 
a picture of this circuit.

Vern Nelson

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