At 02:24 PM 5/7/01 -0500, you wrote:

>We saw that problem, and made a die to bend the leads. Still had loads of
>failures, operating well within spec.
>Gave up, and used 7805's instead, and went back to near-zero failures.
>I don't remember the vendors though. Probably NS and TI.

Probably ours were ST or JRC, judging by a few boards within reach, the 7805s
tend to be NS (or the LMxxx equivalent)

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