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Bambu Lab A1 mini electricity cost per hour

What a Bambu Lab A1 mini costs to run per hour on PLA and PETG, from Bambu's measured draw, with a worked quote for a 6-hour flexi axolotl.

What it draws

Average while printing PLA80 WBambu Lab wiki
Average while printing PETG75 WBambu Lab wiki
Standby with Wi-Fi, top of the range7.3 WBambu Lab wiki
Maximum, at 110 V150 WBambu Lab wiki

The maker’s own measurements. The maximum is what the power supply can pull while the bed heats; the bill sees the average.

What an hour on it costs

Electricity, PLA$0.015
Electricity, PETG$0.014
Wear and upkeep at $219Bambu Lab store$0.079

Electricity at the US residential average of 18.16¢ per kWh.EIA Wear spreads the list price over 6,000 hours of life; upkeep is $180 a year over 4,200 hours run. Both are assumptions you can change in the cost calculator.

From Bambu Lab

  • The A1 mini is the one Bambu machine rated at the same maximum on both supplies: 150 W at 220 V and at 110 V.Bambu Lab wiki
  • On Bambu's own test the A1 mini drew 75 W on PETG and 80 W on PLA, so the hotter filament did not cost more power on this machine.Bambu Lab wiki

A worked quote: Flexi axolotl

140 g of PLA, 6 hours on the machine, single colour, on PLA Basic at $14.99 for 1000 gBambu Lab store, sold on Etsy.

Filament$2.10
Electricity at 80 W$0.09
Machine wear and upkeep$0.48
Your time, 25 min at $28 an hour$11.67
Consumables$0.80
Failed-print reserve at 6%$0.21
What it costs you$15.34
Price at 60% markup$24.54
Etsy takes, at the app's starting estimate$2.78
You keep$6.42

The Etsy line is the app’s preset of 9.5% plus $0.45, a starting value rather than Etsy’s live schedule. Change any of it in the cost calculator or the electricity calculator.

Materials it has a measured draw for

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Keep these numbers for every print

Printyard runs this arithmetic on your phone at the machine and on the web: every quote itemised, every roll to the gram, and a month with the fees and the failed prints already taken out.

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