I'm suspecting my voltage regulator is defective because I made the same circuit twice with the exact same components but this time, the battery voltage of 7.2V is being passed to the entire circuit when the rest of the circuit should only get 5V.
So when a voltage regulator is defective, does the input and output normally short together when its turned on?
The regulator I'm using is LM2940 with 22uF grounded electrolytic capacitors at its input and output.