What is this? Some kind of diode?
Have a automotive battery charger/car starter which doesn't work quite
right.
Won't charge the battery up more than half-way,
and I find 5.5VAC rather than the expected DC of 1.5V (+/-) applied to
the gate
of the SCR that seems to drive the whole thing .My suspicions point to
what appears to be a pair
of diodes mounted on the massive heat-sink inside (see... more =BB
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