Veglia clock question

How many amps should my veglia clock be pulling on my 1979 308? My battery has been running down after a few days, and it certainly didn’t use to do this. I had some other “anomalies” I was able to fix with the current draw, but after painstakingly going through the fuse block and double checking through the battery cable in series, my clock is the only thing still pulling current with the door closed and ignition off. It is pulling between 1.2-1.6 amps, which seems excessive. It was repaired bout 2 years ago with new internals from Palo Alto Speedo. I am wondering if somehow the radio suppression capacitor, which is on the same circuit, could be the culprit. Any thoughts?

thanks in advance.

 

Lots on the fuse but was able to trace down to one wire. Onlybthings Only things on that circuit are the clock, emergency light socket, and supposedly the radio noise suppressor (capacitor) which I have no idea where it’s at. But when I unplug the clock, the amps drop to zero with the circuit wire continuing to the emergency socket, if that makes sense.

 

Wire comes in from the harness to the clock. That terminal has two wires and then continues in parallel to the socket. Terminal on socket has two wires, which then continues in parallel, to what I assume is the suppressor. The first load on the wire is the clock, but either way when you pull the connector off the clock, the circuit is still complete to the next loads, because they are in parallel.

 

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Well the clock is working, just pulling 1.5 amps

 

Not sure what do with that. Last time I had it fixed it was $800 for the new mechanism, which took 6 months to source