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OK so a little update:
I finished rewiring the power supply on this radio and got a temporary cord wired up to this radio and powered it up without the rectifier tube in circuit and the unit was drawing a little over an amp once it settled down.
Which that sounds about right (even though I don't have the original cover from this radio that had the power consumption label on it) and nothing smoked and nothing sparked or arced and the pilot lamp worked as it should.
I think we're off to a good start with this thing (of course I didn't have a speaker hooked up to this thing or the output tubes in either so that might affect the current draw as well.
I wasn't able to monitor the B+ voltage because I'm not sure where to hook up my DMM to monitor that.
So it seems we might have a winner here!
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