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Originally Posted by Bigears
OK I did the test again 7.90 volts thats with the red lead of the millimetre going to the red lead red lead of the smoothing capacitor and the black to the black
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If the two secondary windings are in series (as others have said) then that voltage is far too low. It is even a little low for the windings in parallel as I'd expect to see roughly 9V unless the transformer was heavily loaded.