Contactors

I can't help with surplus, but if you can live with IEC style contactors, the Fuji contactors from Automation Direct are nice quality and inexpensive compared to AB and C-H.

Great deals on eBay for imports, etc.

for what it's worth, I just picked up a very clean Westinghouse series C type HMCP motor circuit breaker, it has instantaneous trip settings you can adjust from 9 to 30 amps - looks like some idiot electrician mangled the set screw for setting these trip amps, and then just abandoned the breaker - you have to push down on it, then turn, not just try to turn it by brute force.

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They do look attractive. I shall study them. Thank you.

I spent time on eBay, and found %^&^. Many 10's of items with worthless descriptions, pictures that show zip, and pages of BS about how that they are so professional.

If I'm buying a contactor; at the least I need to know the # and rating of the contacts, and the coil voltage.

(I'm being to think the term "professional" when used about eBay sellers is akin to when it's being used to describe a babe in a bar......)

There may well be a seller out there with new stock, or organized used stock, but I did not find same yet.

Yeah, it's noisy. It you want quick and easy, order it from grainger.com for $30. Or sort through the noise and get 3 for $10 on eBay, then you don't have to bother the next two times.

If I can get 200A/3ph contactors for $30 at Grainger, I'll be at their door...

I sold one on ebay for $99. ABB brand.

Sorry, I was referring to my experience with 30 amp 1-phase. Maybe yours aren't so easy to find.