Hypertherm PAC500 Product Configuration - Manual (Page 7)

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INTRODUCTION
Hypertherm’s PAC-500 is designed as a machine-mounted cutting system for production
cutting stainless steel to five-inch (127 mm) thick, carbon steel to two-inch (50 mm) thick, and
aluminum to six-inch (152 mm) thick.
Four nozzle sizes are available for cutting from gauge to three-inch (75 mm) thick metal when
the PAC-500 is used as a water-injection plasma cutting system with nitrogen as the plasma
gas. One nozzle size is used for cutting metal thicknesses from three (75 mm) to six inches
(152 mm). In this cutting range, the PAC-500 uses argon-hydrogen as the plasma gas
(Hypertherm recommends a mixture of 35% hydrogen and 65% argon) and does not use the
water-injection process.
The PAC-500 power supplies provide arc current from 200 to 1000 amps to the PAC-500
machine torch. Depending on the cutting application, one or more power supplies are used.
See
Specify the Power Supplies later in this section.