This circuit is from a 90s Popular Electronics. It appears elsewhere on this site. Q1 can be any general purpose transistor.
In the figure we show how to trigger a triac for a continuous voltage of the order of 2 V,...
This 2005 Linear Technology circuit has separate outputs for monitoring the charge and discharge...
This circuit was obtained in a June 1987 magazine Hands-On. It is a circuit that indicates on two...