I've no doubt there are many excellent low noise regulators out there that are orders of magnitude better than the 78xx series, but there are also many that claim low noise as a headline feature and are actually worse when you dig into the specification.
On 7 Dec 2016 23:42, "Richard (Rick) Karlquist" <[email protected]> wrote: > On 12/7/2016 12:16 PM, Clint Jay wrote: > >> I was looking for a low noise regulator to power a log amp/detector >> earlier >> this year and was rather surprised to find the 78xx regulators were >> considerably better than many of the "low noise" devices. >> >> > Are you kidding me? Check out the Linear Technology LT3042 and > LT3045 with 2 (yes, TWO) NANOVOLTS/root-Hz spot noise. Orders of > magnitude better than the 78XX introduced 45 years ago. > > Rick N6RK > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/m > ailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
