'Plasma Cam Problems'

Jeremy Wright from Nor Cal (Contact Member) -

I recently purchased a Plasma Cam cutting table and a Hypertherm Powermax 600 and I cannot get the plasma cam to work consistently. I have spent quite a bit of money and at least two weeks trying to trouble shoot and all I get from plasma cam is that I have a grounding issue. It has blown three fuses in the control box and one mother board on my computer. I have tested, grounded (5/8"x8' ground rod), even sent in my controller overnight and tried two other computers and I get the same problem. When I get into the diagnostic settings and push check L.E.D.'s it will sometimes make the gantry motor move up to two feet. That is usually when it blows a fuse but only 1/10 times. Also some light on the controller are on when that function is not being used. Any help at all would be very much appreciated I am very Frustrated.

Comment #1 afsar uddin (119.18.144.219) -

just i want to know about how to change nozzle

Comment #2 afsar uddin (119.18.144.219) -

after how many days i will change the max 200 plasma nozzale

Comment #3 Lisa Du (59.174.175.137) -

Dear Sir,

You can change a new plasma nozzale by hand.

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• how to change the plasma nozzale

Comment #4 Nick Pappas (124.183.136.80) -

I have purchased the cnc machine plasmacam. Does anyone know if there are courses you can do on how to learn to operate this complicating machine. I regret buying this machine!!. This company gives a folder & say's "all the information on running it is in there", what a load of crap. Im looking at maybe purchasing a different, more easy program for this machine. Can anyone help. Thanx. Nick..

Comment #5 mike (207.200.116.6) -

I know your frustration, but really with a littile knowledge about plasma cutting and alot of free time it really does get easier. Make sure to read your plasma cutters manual and apply their numbers to your plasmacam settings. Torch hieght, speed, piercing lead in and time spent piercing. The gap at end of loop is important also. I recently learned that the arc voltage level is very important when deciding the thickness of material you plan to cut. It's only frustrating because of the amount of variables there are in order to get a clean cut. The plasma cutter that I purchased to use with my table is only a 30 amp cutter. The manual told me the optimal running p.s.i was 65 and that the cutting hieght could be anywhere around 1/8" to 1/16". The manual also gave me a gauge chart for speed when cutting. Like I siad there are so many variables that it all takes time to bring together for that perfect cut your looking for. Good luck!

Comment #6 david Caldwell (69.19.14.26) -

Anybody know who might give assistance in getting the kinks ironed out? Is there a directory or something.

Comment #7 jim morris (69.214.0.185) -

i have a plasmacam s#69818 and after making a cut i tried to make another cut and recieved an error message "short circut in power to one or more of these motors ;gantry z after performing hold xyz test proceduers and ohming my motors finding them to be in spec and performed a continuity test on my cables with no issues found i found my feed back cable from my hypertherm going to the controller had been melted thru from a cut out falling on it. i have the i/o turned off on the pc as i dont use the DHC but could this still cause a short in my controller

Comment #8 Benito Ardi (125.164.235.85) -

I used Max200 CNC Hypherterm plasma, when i cut mildsteel material the result dimesion of cutting x and y axis is always -4 mm. At the machine i set at 1 : 1 scale. Can anyone explain how to solve these problem.

thanks. Ben

Comment #9 Charles d (76.244.83.17) -

can anyone help me setup the height control... every time I try to use my plasmacam system the cut tip strikes the metal.

I have had several computer geeks try to solve problem with no positive results.

Comment #10 Phil Gassnola from mass (Contact Member) -

"Jeremy"

Hypertherm has the parts you need to make your 600 work with the new plasma cam up grade part# 120964 shield cap OHMIC and part# 220403 fine cut shiled. We just purchased the parts and our machine works great.

Comment #11 George (65.121.62.202) - Thu Jan 21 16:29:50 2010

"Plasmacam user"

Try the Piginfo Group on Yahoo Groups. They have a lot of help from users.

Comment #12 vickie (70.58.49.179) - Fri Feb 19 20:16:12 2010

"plasmacam"

what kind of fuses does the control box take for serial #85891

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