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firewall. So I'm committing the cardinal sin of powering things from the cigarette plug for now. But before you worry, I have a really big auxiliary battery and I slow-charge that from the cigarette plug. It's DC-DC converter limited to two amps. It should be totally fine. I've got fuses in line. So if it ever does try to pull more than whatever I put fuses in, it's five amps now. It'll pop a fuse. So I was transmitting on 50 on the bench in my workshop and that DC-DC converter never bumped up over like two and a half amps, drawing at 12 volts. When I put it in the car, then I'm blowing these fuses. And I figured it must have been, you know, not DC, but AC, like RF currents on the feed line going back or something like that. So I put ferrites on the power leads. Oh, okay.