Peter A Forbes wrote in message . ..

We've seen moving iron 'output amps' meters in the ac circuit to the bridge
rectumfrier, thus giving a rather inflated view of the output current....

Don't forget that the available DC output current from a full wave bridge with
smoothing cap is only about 0.6 of the AC current, although the DC Volts is 1.44
X (in theory)

I meant the error in an average-responding meter wouldn't be large
after the rectifier.

RL