LM386 not working as expected

Design

Prior to building a complete audio amplifier circuit with a speaker hooked, I need to ensure that LM386 is properly configured and works the way it's expected to but when I try to power it on even by connecting the power supply to PIN 6 (15V for instance) along with a load of about 10 ohms, it shows like 1.7V on the multimeter (at pin 6) and the voltage continues to drop. Also at one point it got really hot.

Not sure what's going on here honestly...

Here is the circuit (The semi-circle is on the left side). I am not feeding in any input signal as of now - just powering it on and seeing if it even's properly ON by seeing the voltage it's getting but it doesn't seem like it. Hopefully I haven't fried the chip...

Posted Aug 17, 2017, 7:39 PM UTC · edited

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