This control for 12 V drills was found in a 90s Elektor. The components are current, and Q1 can be replaced by a TIP42 mounted on a heat radiator.
Today we have more compact solutions. This is from a Radio Electronics magazine from October 1990....
This filter was found in Texas Instruments documentation from the 1980s. The circuit uses a common...
16 commercial test circuit for tubes and transistors appeared in Radio Electronics magazine in...