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>I've never been able to get a 78M05 to oscillate, even without any load
>capacitor. I suppose with really, really bad layout it might be possible, but
>they are pretty sluggish devices.

I've only seen it a couple times.
They got much hotter than you'd expect in the circuit.


I've had really bad luck with the M devices just dying for no apparent reason.
Never had that problem with the L or standard sevices.
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