Dr.Al
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I got a bit carried away on Sunday and spent £190 on a new toy. It arrived today but it's chucking it down and I see this as an outdoor tool, so I thought I'd take my time unpacking it and add a few photos / comments in here as I go. I also thought it would be good to get evidence of any faults in case it needs to be returned. Allegedly it comes with a 2 year warranty, but I'm working on the assumption that it'll be next to impossible to take advantage of that.
Hopefully it'll spend most of its life running at much much less than 60 A and that'll help its longevity, but I realise that I'm possibly being overly optimistic there...
Good sturdy box:
With another box inside:
and here it is extracted from the box:
Cut60 Pliot Arc apparently
Front view:
Back view... I was not expecting it to come with a three-pin plug on it:
According to the manual (right-hand column) it takes 12 A input current, but that seems optimistic.
I don't know the output voltage, but given that and the efficiency (bottom row) it would be easy to work out the input current. Anyone know what a typical plasma cutter output voltage is?
I decided to take the fuse cover off the plug, partly out of curiosity and partly because I'd seen photos linked from somewhere on this site of the "interesting fuse":
The white stuff on the fuse cover is the hot melt glue that was holding it in.
I'll replace the plug with a 16 A blue plug with an inline fuse (although I might first do some tests with it as is but plugged into a fused socket in case it's faulty out of the box and needs to go back).
Here's what it came with:
Close-up of the torch connections:
and here's the contents of the bag / box:
The little wire semicircle looks to be rubbish - I can't see what it could possibly be for.
That's it for now. I'm going to get it put together a bit further and see what it looks like.
Hopefully it'll spend most of its life running at much much less than 60 A and that'll help its longevity, but I realise that I'm possibly being overly optimistic there...
Good sturdy box:
With another box inside:
and here it is extracted from the box:
Cut60 Pliot Arc apparently
Front view:
Back view... I was not expecting it to come with a three-pin plug on it:
According to the manual (right-hand column) it takes 12 A input current, but that seems optimistic.
I don't know the output voltage, but given that and the efficiency (bottom row) it would be easy to work out the input current. Anyone know what a typical plasma cutter output voltage is?
I decided to take the fuse cover off the plug, partly out of curiosity and partly because I'd seen photos linked from somewhere on this site of the "interesting fuse":
The white stuff on the fuse cover is the hot melt glue that was holding it in.
I'll replace the plug with a 16 A blue plug with an inline fuse (although I might first do some tests with it as is but plugged into a fused socket in case it's faulty out of the box and needs to go back).
Here's what it came with:
Close-up of the torch connections:
and here's the contents of the bag / box:
The little wire semicircle looks to be rubbish - I can't see what it could possibly be for.
That's it for now. I'm going to get it put together a bit further and see what it looks like.