One of the H744 regulators whines
FWIW, none of mine are silent under load. If they're not being loaded (e.g. on a test
bench, with no dummy load, or if you have all the boards out) they can whine excessively
due to no minimum load.
it seems higher than the expected values printed on
the meter
Beware cheap test equipment. $client has a few of these Chinese handheld LC/RLC meters,
they're wildly inaccurate on some parameters, including ESR on large electrolytics.
We've got a proper Gen-Rad RLC Digibridge in the shop to compare against. We
couldn't figure out why some of their tuned filter stages were failing QC at a much
higher rate than expected. They were off-frequency because the cheap meters were giving
consistently incorrect measurements when trying to match capacitors.
That said, it's not like replacing them with new will *hurt* -- it just might not fix
the whine.
Thanks,
Jonathan