destroy a 7805 voltage regulator

Hi, nice site - lots of info!
I have accidentally connected my 7805 in TO-92 packaging the other way around (i.e. my input voltage of 12V went to the 7805 output). Is this deadly?

In the documentation they mention that a reversed input voltage (+ <-> -) would kill it, but I did not do that, as you see... so that's why I'm asking.

Thank you so much in advance!!

Posted by alexei on 03/06/2005, at 23:16 GMT

analog electronics

This is the answer to your question alexie,the regulator was not destroyed because the reverse voltage was not up to -12v in value

Posted by exabyte on 24/06/2005, at 09:07 GMT

thanks

thanks! I'll check it out closer then, and see maybe it does work ;)

Posted by Alexei (alexey_c@inbox.ru) on 26/06/2005, at 16:48 GMT