Quote: Originally Posted by shakes
you got a heatsink on that regulator? they can disipate a lot of heat, and it they get too hot they blow, and instead of killing power to your GPS it'll simply pass all 12v to it and fry the GPS too

Heatsink? Whats a heatsink? I coated it with gunpowder and gasoline in order to disipate the heat!

.. Yeah, of course it has a heatsink hehe. Thanks for the concern though
