@TheChad, I overlooked something regarding that resistor... The potentiometer and resistor that you have in your power supply is already going to do what I intended that resistor to do.
The 100uF Capacitor you have now will be connected similar to how the existing one is connected.
The existing capacitor is connected to the negative and the positive after the bridge, but before the regulators.
The new capacitor will be connected to the negative and and positive after the regulators. You are essentially connecting it directly to the output leads.
Great! One less component to worry about!
I was doing some more testing today and it looks like the voltage jumping around may be due to a loose connection on the potentiometer... One of the colder tabs is loose (Which is why I am ordering a new one), and I put a drop of solder on it to hold it in place until the replacement shows up.. I was testing today and the voltage would just completely at random spike to like 14 volts..
So I messed around with that wire and when it was making good contact, the voltage was solid, didn't move more than .01v over a 10 minute period..
So it seems I may not even need the 100uF capacitor, I may throw it in there anyway, but it looks like that wasn't the underlying problem..
I changed the original capacitor from I believe 3500uF to 4700uF, which would have made since I went from a 6A Transformer to an 8A transformer..
But maybe I didn't go large enough? Though maybe it's not affecting anything... I assume if the capacitor was not large enough it would cause pretty noticeable voltage droops?
Before I go and order the new 10v transformer... This idea of installing another rectifier.. I can pick one of those up at Radio Shack.. If that a viable solution? From the sound of it, it would drop my current 14v down to 12v which is what I hoped to accomplish with the 10v transformer. How would I hook that up? Wouldn't that effectively make it a 1/2 wave rectifier instead of a full wave rectifier, thus creating bigger droops between phases?
-TheChad