What is this thing?

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I took apart a giant projection TV and there were a bunch of these lining the screen mount. (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago by AFaithfulNihilist to c/whatisthisthing

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I feel like they probably have something to do with light level detection or infrared signal receiving but I genuinely have no idea. They could just as likely be part of the sound system for all I know.

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[–] ch00f 1 points 9 months ago

Yeah, but trying to figure out what it’s for in this circuit. I suppose it could just be ESD.