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Michael A. Terrell Michael A. Terrell is offline
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"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote:

In article ,
Michael A. Terrell wrote:
FFS. Try measuring a small filament lamp start up current. Illuminated car
lamps switches could easily be too much for one - they might have to be
visible in the daylight.


I did. About 40 years ago. They were in the 10 to 50 mA range.


So you know for sure what size lamp that switch uses? I couldn't see any
information on the website.

However, 50mA might well be too much for a marginal power supply - as I
said



If it is that marginal it would be useless for the preamp, as well.


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