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I decided to put a load on it...12k ohm resistor

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More Bruce

 

I have a feeling Bruce says we need some capaci-taters

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I think you have your AC source there hooked up to the output pins.
The error when installed backwards would have reversed the + and - output pins.  The AC would have still been correct as it is non-polar.

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Yes sir thank you 

I decided to take a look at this on my scope

Btw here is the source of 12v ac

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So connecting scope probes directly to cables coming from ac source

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My phone was struggling to get a full trace left to right despite trying to adjust trigger etc the trace was jittery and flickering real bad

So now connect scope probes to (+) and scope ground to (-)

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Which I like that but when I had the scope switched to ac I had just a flat line

Then connecting scope probe to (~)

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So I guess everything is cool. 

I'm off to connect some other stuff to the scope and try to get a better full steady trace.

 

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I'm relieved that my signal generator provided some nice traces

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Idk why the trace from that transformer was so sketchy.