This LED diode test is suggested by the Texas Instruments optoelectronics manual. The transformer current can be between 50 mA and 300 mA and the voltage between 6 and 9 V.
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...