Hi,
I've been enjoying my powermax 45 for around 6 months or so now I guess, but have started having some troubles.
Arc starting has progressively been failing more and more often. A month ago, it would only fail to start after sitting a day, now it fails after sitting an hour sometimes, and requires lots of purging and several on/off torch cycles to get it to fire. After that it works normally.
I had some moisture trouble, and only recently added a "motorguard" submicronic paper element filter right next to the plasma unit.
It seems to cut normally on short runs, but when cutting lots of parts, I start to have trouble with inconsistent cuts on some parts, and failed arc starts.
Is there anything I should try to cure this? Have I damaged my plasma unit from using inadequately filtered air?
Thanks