I am still not seeing any difference with the cap in parallel with the motor...I took it off and there was no real change it seemed. Could it be because I have the setup being adjusted BY the variac, not the motor (setup) in SERIES with the variac?
Maybe my interpretation on how this thing operations is wrong?
Again, thanks for the help.
To get the phase controller to work properly, the circuit should be wired as shown at my website. The variac must be used as a variable inductor. The variac should not be used as a normal variac or variable autotransformer.