Since my 3 meter 5 amp variac is nearing completion, I thought I'd see if anybody was interested in my back-up variac. It's not purdy like my other ones but it works excellent. It had broken shitty plastic square meters on it and since I had a few of the old style meters left over from several restorations, I put them in. The old Simpson meters look better, last longer than the square duds. I didn't have a old style wattmeter (this is a W5MT3W so the wattmeter would be correct) so I installed an amp meter (dual scale too) instead. So now it's a W5MT3A and most guys would rather have the amp meter instead of the wattmeter. The voltmeter was burned out (never had a old simpson meter fail yet) but I'll throw in the 2 original meters in case somebody wants to return it to original. The wattmeter worked and I left the 2 additional wires for the wattmeter tied up inside. The wattmeter used 4 wires and the amp meter just 2. Original meters (especially the voltmeter are 10 buck for a new one on the bay if that is important to you. It's got a heavy duty power cord with the Oxygen Free Ground pin so it's safe to use in the shower (don't do it 
). If no interest I'll stick it up on the Bay
I tested it on this cheesy craftsman soldering iron rated at 45 watts @ 120volts AC and the amp meter read 43.25 ish watts (amps x volts) and the voltmeter is spot on too.
Thanks for looking.
). If no interest I'll stick it up on the BayI tested it on this cheesy craftsman soldering iron rated at 45 watts @ 120volts AC and the amp meter read 43.25 ish watts (amps x volts) and the voltmeter is spot on too.
Thanks for looking.
