Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. - Thomas Edison
I am new to working with a quartz flash and am finding that it takes much longer that expected to cure shirts....initially. Do these things require a good bit of run time to come up to temp. I am finding it taking 10+ seconds or a double hit at 7+ to flash cure a shirt. If I flash it 30 times just auto cycling I can get down in the 5-6 second range, but if there is a problem on press, or stacking shirts for a few minutes, I am back to square one. Which resulting in bad prints, cleaning bottom of screens, etc... What gives? Is this common?A possible problem may likely be that my building runs 208v instead of 230v.Any thoughts would be appreciated.Dewey
It takes about 6-10 indexes for our flash to get fairly warmed up, but we are never in the 5-7 second range for flashing. We usually start at 4-4.5 and go down as the press indexes a couple revolutions. On long runs with 2 flashes going, the pallets get pretty warm, not hot, then our flash times are down to at least 2 seconds, even for thick 110 ink deposits.
They are labeled 208-240V and 26 amp.
With our flash we always preheat the palettes, several full rotations at about 5 seconds really works well. Once printing we start slowly lowering the flash time as everything gets heated up and by time we get to the sweet spot of time its no more than two seconds. Fortunately on our machine we have a preheat for the flash, adjustable for idle time and for how long to actually preheat. I have it set to preheat for 6 seconds, unless we walked away for like a half an hour that is more than sufficient to preheat the bulbs and get rocking again.