uh oh, bigclive made a video titled "random ebay high-voltage "thing""

now i must know what this thing is but from the fact that clive can't tell what it is, i probably won't know much either
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okay yeah what the *fuck* is this thing and why are they abusing that poor thyristor like that
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*they're using the gate-cathode junction of the thyristor as a zener*

who the hell designed this thing
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not really even as a zener, they're just using it in avalanche as a conduction path because they were too cheap to put in a 1N4004
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