This remarkable ON Semiconductor 5-volt linear voltage regulator comes under the MC7805 family. These products are monolithic integrated circuits designed as fixed-voltage regulators for a wide range of applications including local, on-card regulation. The positive 7805 voltage regulator requires no external components and incorporates internal thermal overload protection and current limiting plus safe area compensation.

Features and Benefits
• Internal thermal overload protection
• Internal short circuit current limiting
• Output transistor safe – area compensation
• These are Pb-Free devices
• Output current in access of 1.0A
• Output Voltage Offered in 1.5%, 2% and 4% Tolerance
• Package type: TO-220
• Accuracy +4%

Applications
Linear regulators are simple voltage regulator circuits commonly adopted in electronics. A Linear voltage regulator uses a closed feedback loop to bias a pass element to maintain a steady voltage across output terminals. Linear regulators are most commonly highly integrated, which include the pass element and feedback loop.

Linear Voltage Regulators, ON Semiconductor