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I know what I did wrong... I was assuming that the "2500 volt" rating given in the parts list was a rating of the transformer. It would have been more accurate to call it a "transformer for the production of 2500 volts". The peak DC voltage after the 2X2 rectifier does come out to 2700 volts in a simulation, and the average DC value after the rectifier and filter cap is 2500 volts.
My mistake when trying to work backward from the schematic to determine the voltage rating of the secondary was neglecting to use the peak value of the line voltage, which would be 117 volts times the square root of 2, or 165.463 volts, instead I was using 117 volts as the peak. Been a long day...
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