Paul wrote:
No, someone has just put them in as an attempt to protect against reverse
polarity!
Slightly mad.

Is that what you think that is???? Why have the diodes right on top of
the transistors? No, I think that was an effort to temp track the bias.
Well, at least they were trying. Unfortunately, don't think that's
going to work that way... LOL

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