Cutting without a disc · review
The only plasma cutter on this page that publishes a duty cycle with its current — 85 A at 60%.
Where we come out The duty cycle is the reason to choose it, and the missing thickness figures are the reason to check your material first.
Four hundred and sixty-two euros, and one number that no other machine in this batch publishes: 85 A at 60% duty cycle.
Welding is intermittent by nature — a bead, a pause to reposition, another bead. Cutting is not: you set off along a line and keep going. A plasma cutter that stops after ninety seconds stops in the middle of the sheet, with the arc out and the kerf cooling, and restarting mid-cut leaves a mark you will have to dress.
Sixty per cent at 85 A means six minutes of every ten at full current. On the machines around it, that figure is simply absent, and the honest reading of an absent duty cycle is « short bursts ».
The listing names separate modes for short and continuous operation, and describes cooling of the power unit, the torch and the workpiece. That is a more considered specification than most in this category, and it is consistent with the published duty cycle: a machine designed for sustained cutting rather than for a headline current.
Cut thickness by material. Eighty-five amps places it well above the 45 A machines earlier on this page, but stainless and aluminum figures are absent, and those are the two that surprise people. If your work is stainless, ask the maker before ordering rather than assuming the steel figure applies.
Current, duty cycle, ignition, operating modes and cooling come from the manufacturer’s published specification. No cut thickness by material is stated there, and none is invented here. Market availability was verified per market on the EAN.
| Current | 85 A at 60% duty cycle |
|---|---|
| Ignition | Pilot plasma arc |
| Operating modes | Separate modes for short bursts and continuous work |
| Cooling | Cooling of the power unit, the torch and the workpiece |
| Part number | 2044 |
| Amazon reference | B008J10PXE |
| EAN | 4260223024061 |
Six minutes of cutting in any ten, at 85 A, before thermal protection intervenes. Below that current you get more. The reason it matters on a plasma cutter more than on a welder is that cutting is continuous work — you follow a line for a minute at a time — where welding is often a bead and a pause. A machine that cuts out halfway down a sheet is a machine you fight.
The listing describes separate modes for short-duration and continuous work. In practice that is a thermal strategy: one setting favors full current in bursts, the other trades some output for the ability to keep going. Which you want depends on whether you are nibbling brackets out of plate or running a two-meter line.
7.5/ 10
The duty cycle is the reason to choose it, and the missing thickness figures are the reason to check your material first.
A reference exists on these Amazon stores: France, Germany, Italy, Spain, United Kingdom. Listed is not the same as in stock — availability changes daily.
Details checked on August 13, 2026.
Longer cutting sessions where thermal cut-out has been the previous machine’s habit
Here because the consumable states this machine by name.
Specifications: the manufacturer sheet for welding and metalworking machines and the matching Amazon product page. Prices and availability: Keepa. Every figure on this page names its source.
70 A · PT-80 torch, 5 m (16 ft) · 25 mm (0.98 in) · €522
Sold as a working set — a 5 m (16 ft) torch, earth lead, shield and hammer — with a seven-year warranty behind it.
Best for: A workshop that wants one box, standard consumables and somewhere to send it if it fails
120 V · built-in compressor · 27 lb · inverter · pre-set pressure
A plasma cutter with its own compressor inside — no bottle, no hose, no water trap — and a listing that publishes neither a cut thickness nor an amperage.
Best for: Cutting thin steel anywhere there is a socket, with nothing else to carry
≈ $1085
15–45 A · 15 mm (0.59 in) steel / 8 mm (0.31 in) stainless / 5 mm (0.20 in) aluminum · €330
The first machine here that publishes its cut thickness for three materials instead of one — which is the whole specification.
Best for: A workshop cutting steel plate and section up to about 10 mm (0.39 in), cleanly
Prices quoted in these summaries are dated readings. The live price is shown next to each product.
