Motor Guard plasma air filter

[Shield Arc]

Oops! Mark I'm from Arkansas, does that tell you anything? :laughing:

 

[rswyan]

Shield,

Curious about the containment of your coils in the trashcan - is the purpose of the can just to protect the copper tubing ?

 

[J_J]

Is the purpose of the copper coil just to radiate the heat, or are you using something else to cool the air? Is the air temp 42 degrees, only with air moving through it?

Question on the plasma cutter. How do you trigger your plasma cutter on? Do you use the electronics board in the plasma cutter, or use a two wire setup on the trigger of the torch head that go to a relay on the stepper motor control box? Do you use the hand or machine torch head?

I have the Lincoln Pro-Cut 55 and I may be using the wires that go to the hand torch. If I use the machine torch, I will have to go into the plasma cutter to find the two wires that trigger the cutter on and run two wires to the plasma table control box. The table I have can be a 4' x 4' for portability, or a 4' x 8' for full length sheet stock.

 

[Shield Arc]

The garbage can is filled with water, you can drop a bag of ice in too to really cool the air.

The computer software triggers the plasma, two wires run from the cnc box to the plasma and tied in to the hand held guns trigger ports. I control where the torch plunges, how long it sets there before moving, all with the cnc software. It uses a machine torch.

 

[DaveOmak]

J J, Mornin'.

I have a hypertherm plasma torch. The welding shop recommended a motor-guard filter in the line to remove particulate and moisture. I installed it as they recommended.
Since the original install, I installed a transmission cooler in the air line and a water separator canister downstream of the cooler but all is ahead of the filter.
The trans cooler removes quite a bit of water, saving the motor-guard filter some extra work.
Seems to work well.
One more thought. I use a dedicated air hose from the filter to the plasma. Wouldn't want dirt etc. to get in the torch from a dirty air hose.

 

[J_J]

rswyan

Do you have the M-50, and did you cut the TP filter down to fit. The 623 filter is smaller than the 723 used on the latest version.

It is just amazing what one can find out, just by asking. Thanks, to those of you that contribute to the knowledge base of others.

 

[J_J]

JJ sorry to change the subject here but I just wanted to squeeze in to say congrats on being the "Member of the Month". I've always enjoyed you posts and appreciated your knowledge. :thumbsup: Cheers, Paul

Thanks for the complement.

JJ