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Help prevent battery drain: is 18ma too much on fuse #8 (clock, central locking)? 200 1982

My battery died, so I bought a new one. Following advice in somebody else's post, I pulled all the fuses and measured for current flow:
#5: 0.001 ma (milliamp)
#7: 0.130 ma
#8: 5.0 - 14.0 ma

Fuse #8 has the little dashboard clock, maybe my aftermarket radio (I didn't install it), central locking, and perhaps some other stuff. Does the mechanical clock contribute to the current variability? And is 5-14ma enough to drain a battery?

Thanks for the advice.
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-- Bruce / '82 244 (323k miles!), '86 745, '87 760Ti, '94 854






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