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Bambu Lab H2D electricity cost per hour

What a Bambu Lab H2D costs to run per hour on PLA, PETG and PC, from Bambu's measured draw, with a worked quote for a 9-hour PETG organiser.

What it draws

Average while printing PLA197 WBambu Lab wiki
Average while printing PETG150 WBambu Lab wiki
Average while printing PC395 WBambu Lab wiki
Standby with Wi-Fi, top of the range27 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$0.036
Electricity, PETG$0.027
Electricity, PC$0.072
Wear and upkeep at $1,549Bambu Lab store$0.301

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

  • Bambu measured the H2D at 395 W printing PC, twice its 197 W on PLA.Bambu Lab wiki
  • Idle with Wi-Fi on, the H2D draws 25 to 27 W, more than three times what any A or P series machine draws in standby.Bambu Lab wiki
  • In Low Power Mode an H-series printer peaks at about 860 W.Bambu Lab wiki

A worked quote: Desk organiser · wholesale

210 g of PETG, 9 hours on the machine, single colour, on PETG Basic (refill) at $13.99 for 1000 gBambu Lab store, sold on Etsy.

Filament$2.94
Electricity at 150 W$0.25
Machine wear and upkeep$2.71
Your time, 25 min at $28 an hour$11.67
Consumables$0.80
Failed-print reserve at 6%$0.40
What it costs you$18.76
Price at 60% markup$30.02
Etsy takes, at the app's starting estimate$3.30
You keep$7.95

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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