Re: SMD Voltage Regulator
If you add some series resistance in the protection/decoupling ahead of the regulator you can shift most of the dissipation to that, especially if load is fairly constant.
A bit questionable, but very handy in units operating in high magnetic fields before MHz switchers that could use air cored inductors came along.
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