Good. I always assumed it would need a largish cap there, but was wondering some after the comments here about just adding a rectifier or bridge.

There should be no problem with going larger on that cap, so I'll use whatever I can find on hand -- likely 470uF/50V as I have lots of those.

It'll be a couple more weeks before the bits and pieces from China come trickling in, or perhaps longer since it's holiday time over there right now.

Thanks