On Sun, 3 Nov 2002, Jinx wrote:

*>LM317 adj current is only 50-60uA for 10mA < Iout < Imax

Wherever you get that. LM317 adj current is exactly 120uA no matter what
the load. That's how it comes to set the voltage by using just a resistor.
Constant current across a resistor == constant voltage == regulation.
There is only the 1.2V constant voltage between ADJ and Out to be added to
this.

Peter

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