The current drain of the regulator
is minute compared with that
of, say, a 78L05: at an input
voltage of 9 V and open-circuit
output, it is just under 50 µA.
The circuit consists of a
straightforward bandgap reference
based on T1 and IC1, followed
by an amplifier formed by
IC2 and T1.
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