Just received and have not tried it with a load. It is well built and looks like it will be very durable. The small voltmeter that is built in is as accurate as you could expect for a small analog meter. The real catch is that with a nominal 120V input, this variac range is 0-150V and not 0-130V as advertised. The problem with this is that the dial under the knob is marked from 0-130V, so the indication of the dial is not even close to the actual output voltage. This not a problem for me since I will monitor the output with a digital meter, but a word of caution to those who try to rely on the knob/dial position for output voltage value.