No, Zoama, I don't think so, but I do wonder why ? Those guys never offer any helpful advice. The thing is that it didn't give the full story explaining why it ate up the consumables to begin with, which does make the product look bad, and did not explain the original blunder, which MAY have caused a further issue. I try to help customers, with issues like this, and usually find at the source operator error, but not always, hence the elementary questions.

If the arc isn't transferring, which does seem to be the problem, likely the cause is simple. I do believe, that it possibly fused something in the torch head or burned out in the plasma cutter after long sustained use with the pilot arc. It's sort of like holding the throttle wide open on a stock V8 and expecting it to not do damage, even if it is held for a few minutes. It can go to wide open throttle of course, but holding it there for any real length of time will make things go bye bye real quick.

It seems that The pilot arc is indeed engaging but it is not transferring when continuity is sensed (if it is). The amps then ramp up to full scale amperage as the arc is transferred from the torch circuit to the metal. The reason the torch does not take the full power, the arc will blow out the consumables very very quickly. It eats them out with the pilot arc engaged for very long as it is.

Jef,
Is the swirl ring still in the torch?

You can call me tomorrow as well and we can go over some of the basics if you need to about this.
And as an additional note, the torch is switched to positive for stick welding.