Patent 9481050 was granted and assigned to Hypertherm Inc. on November, 2016 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
The invention features methods and apparatuses for establishing operational settings of a plasma arc cutting system. A plasma power supply includes a user selectable control. The user selectable control enables selection of a single cutting persona that establishes at least a current, a gas pressure or gas flow rate, and an operational mode of the plasma arc cutting system.