Re: Help pricing Variac

At 01:56 PM 11/15/2000 -0500, you wrote:

> I found an old Superior Variac 0-120V 10 amp. How much is this
>worth?

A new US made 10 amp variac would be $180 - $220. An offshore import would
be around $100 for the raw variac, or $140 or so for one in a case with an
ammeter, fuse, etc. Lower current models can be found new for under
$100. The used market is all over the place. The good news is they're
hard to damage unless they've really been abused so a used one is a fairly
safe bet. As speed controls, they're not torque compensating, but they
work well because they provide a full sine wave to the motor unlike solid
state speed controls which chop up the AC and sometimes make the motor run
rougher with more noise.

Mike