Thank you everyone! Appreciate the comments!
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Originally Posted by 38 coupe
One question, have you considered using LEDs instead of incandescent bulbs in the radio? Another reason I don't use the tube radios in the 38s is the amp draw when the engine is off. I suspect your setup might be low enough amp draw to be playable with the engine off, and that might be helped with low amp draw LEDs instead of incandescent bulbs. Just a thought on a great project and very interesting series of posts.
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I haven't checked the amp draw yet, but it's very very minimal, even with the lights. The other day, I was working on the car and decided to have the radio on for a few hours as I worked to not only have music in the background, but also see how the radio performed for long periods of time (to make sure the programming didn't have any bugs). Even after at least 2-3 hours of playing, when I checked the Optima battery I had it directly hooked up to, the battery still had the majority of the charge on it.