yes comparator .
i thought pins 1 and 2 were shorted but looking closely at the board they are supposed to connect together .
have no idea why they did that .
yes comparator .
i thought pins 1 and 2 were shorted but looking closely at the board they are supposed to connect together .
have no idea why they did that .
One of the lines may be the month and year of manufacturing, or batch number, it's unlikely you'll find a picture with exactly the same writing, with all rows of text the same.
With all the resistors around the chip, it's indeed most likely a comparator, and they're probably using resistors as some basic voltage dividers before the chip compares voltage thresholds or something and turns on or off those transistors (sot-223 or whatever the 3 pin footprint is)
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