On Monday, June 9, 2014 9:01:05 AM UTC-5, Edward Snider wrote:
>
> Note to self: Triple check Til311's before powering up...
>

Install one at a time (assuming sockets)...  They're simple devices with 
simple "interface", so no problem.

They don't really have an inherent obvious "up" to them do they other than 
looking at pix of installed ones.  MMICs are also like that, they all have 
a "dot" on the input, right?  LOL no at least one family has the dot on the 
output lead.  And tantalum caps are like that too, I have personally held 
in my hand tantalum caps where some mfgrs have a mark on the positive lead 
and some mfgrs have a mark on the negative lead, need to check the data 
sheet every time, I hate tantalums.  You can just install half one way and 
half the other and later replace the half that explode (just kidding?)

And when I was a lot younger I thought all TO-220 linear voltage regulators 
would logically be designed to have the same pinout, after all, the entire 
78xx line is pin compatible so every other reg ever made surely would be 
pin compatible, just makes sense right?

Going back a couple years, I also found out the hard way in transistor 
substitution books (remember those?) that being electrically compatible or 
even electrically identical doesn't mean the same package pinout, even if 
its the same TO-92 package style.  That one was a real head scratcher back 
in the pre-internet days.

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