Voltage is dropping, why?

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tinman13kup:
How many watts do you think the linear regulator is shedding as heat in dropping that 12V to 5V @ 1.8A?

Yikes.. 12 - 5 * 1.8 = 12.6 watt, right? So it looks like I'm not getting this to work as expected, sigh..