Mark @ Everlast
Advertiser
Several things:
1) No air dryer means you will chew through consumables faster than bad Mexican food will run through your system.
2) A non pilot arc Plasma cutter has to be nearly dragged to stay lit, at least on these cheap lotos type units.
3) If your air pressure drops because you don't have a large enough compressor, then the unit may have a feature which will stop the arc to prevent damage to the torch or overheating of it. If the compressor is marginal, then the brief second or two that it takes to build extra pressure between refires may have been enough to reset it to cut.
1) No air dryer means you will chew through consumables faster than bad Mexican food will run through your system.
2) A non pilot arc Plasma cutter has to be nearly dragged to stay lit, at least on these cheap lotos type units.
3) If your air pressure drops because you don't have a large enough compressor, then the unit may have a feature which will stop the arc to prevent damage to the torch or overheating of it. If the compressor is marginal, then the brief second or two that it takes to build extra pressure between refires may have been enough to reset it to cut.