Nearly all stabilised power supplies use a series regulator transistor. The dissipation in this transistor increases with increasing load current and with increasing volt- age across it. This means that it is often necessary to use several tran- sistors in parallel for the series regulator, and to incorporate a large heatsink - certainly if the power supply is to have a variable output voltage at high output currents (lab power supply).
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