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Is this a diode?
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janoc:

--- Quote from: james_s on May 26, 2018, 08:23:44 pm ---The terminals look all nasty and corroded, that's a pretty good indication that it should be replaced.

--- End quote ---

Given the "potato quality" of that photo, those "nasty and corroded" terminals could well be a flux residue or some other contamination, especially given that it is a desoldered component.
TheGenesis:
I have desoldered one of the "good" ones and China says it's a diode (see pic).
And no, I haven't just laid the part on the contacts while measuring. Instead I pressed it down with a tweezer and also checked the opposite polarity. The china thing always comes to the same conclusion.
But dont know how much voltage this thing can/must take and why does the china thing told me a capacitance of 15pF?
Gyro:
That's the junction capacitance it's showing. It is indeed a diode - an ordinary Silicon (not Schottky) one too.

Edit: There's a small chance that it might still be a zener or TVS with a breakdown voltage greater than the tester uses (about 5V). If you have a variable bench psu and a series resistor (~1k) you could wind it up, reverse biased with a DMM across it and see if it clamps at some higher voltage.
gamalot:
Looks like 1SR154-400 from Rohm

https://www.rohm.com/datasheet/1SR154-400

(picture from RS)
Gyro:
Well spotted  :-+
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