Re: Need a little bit of help.



Thanks to all!

I got it working.

The problem was all the LEDs were in the wrong way round and this
seemed to make the voltage regulator heat up to burning point. After
fixing all the LEDs, the VR is running cool and everything is working
fine.
.



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