plasma cutter not working

[organicguy]

Butters AMT 30 strikes but cuts out immediately.
Yellow panel light flashes(no instruction book so I don't know what the symbol means)
Give it 10 secs and it repeats.
Any help gratefully accepted.

TIA
OG

 

[Hjwise]

Even with new consumables?

 

[Classichay]

Have you taken your air lines off and blown through, if you have water anywhere near my hypertherm without an air drier they just throw a fit with the sensors inside. Failing that you may have a resistor or capacitor down on the board. Butters are very repairable and worth looking after.

 

[organicguy]

New tip and 2 tip? but not diffuser or shield.
Will blow through the air line.

 

[organicguy]

New tip and 2 tip? but not diffuser or shield.
Will blow through the air line.

Blew through airline tonight, no sign of any moisture, no improvement!

 

[tomlad]

From memory mates has a water trap on back of machine were air line connects

 

[Classichay]

Blew through airline tonight, no sign of any moisture, no improvement!

Is it three phase? Is one of your phases going weak into your supply
Upsetting the circuit board ? Had that a few years ago on a milling machine

 

[organicguy]

Is it three phase? Is one of your phases going weak into your supply
Upsetting the circuit board ? Had that a few years ago on a milling machine

No, single phase.
The orange light on the front comes on when it trips/stops working. As I have no instructions I don't know what it means, looks a bit like a large $ sign. Any clues?

 

[Classichay]

The orange light usually indicates an over heat / thermal set so it may be worth contacting a company who repairs welding boards, they’re not hugely expensive to fix

message this chap and see if he can help -https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/123781487857

 

[organicguy]

The orange light usually indicates an over heat / thermal set so it may be worth contacting a company who repairs welding boards, they’re not hugely expensive to fix

message this chap and see if he can help -https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/123781487857

Thanks for the link.
There is a red light with a thermometer symbol so I guess that is the thermal overload.

 

[Bury the Trash]

Generic Chinese one most likely. Butters name doesn't mean the same these days.

The fan is running ?

They like their voltage spot on, not very gennie or long or small wired extension lead friendly im afraid.

 

[organicguy]

This is quite old, steel cover! Was my fathers.' who has been dead 5 years, he used it for cutting out weather vanes.
Someone said worth sorting as Butters a good brand!

 

[TripleSix]

Sounds wits just a rebadged CUT30 machine.

I had a similar issue, ended up having it repaired.

Used a firm near Harrogate, it's been fine since.

welderfix.co.uk

Looks like they've gone though.

 

[Bury the Trash]

might be , or it might be of eastern European origins like the Butters branded MMA inverter i had back about 20 yrs ago.
It Kaput , one day,no life at all and i didn't bother trying to get it repaired as a new one of some type was not expensive , as the prices had come down substantially.

Butters had put all the bits together possibly but if they did they didn't even do that very well as the fan was put in backwards i noticed just after i bought it, " i dont blow, i suck" ......anyway all i did was unbolted the fan and turned it around , worked well for quite a few yrs, i think i cooked it on long leads in the end tbh.

but I guess a 'modern' electrician would be the person to ask, worth a shot anyway, even if just for sentimental value.