Yeh, the issue is if you put an LM317 into the circuit then you immediately lose 1.25 volts which you might need when you are not current limiting. Where as if you were to use an LT3013 you would only loose 400mV. The component also has the circuitry in it already to sense when it does and doesn't need to limit the circuit. Sure I could check the schematic and rebuild the circuit with through hole parts but I don't have enough electronic know how to determine what does what. Like if I wanted it to now limit to 400ma. It just seems that YouTube in general lacks a good quality tutorial on limiting dynamic loads. Would a dummy load not be intelligent enough to automatically activate the limit?
