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Looking at this anecdotally, the BDR209s can be heat sunk and brought up slowly to levels higher than 1 watt. It can be done many times without failures, but trying to drive them at currents approaching 1 amp kills them quickly. This alone would suggest that having a slow start current rise might indeed help in keeping them from failure along with the decreases in drive current we've seen over the past several years.