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Bambu Lab P2S electricity cost per hour

What a Bambu Lab P2S costs to run per hour on PLA, from Bambu's stated steady-state draw, with a worked quote for a 9-hour planter.

What it draws

Average while printing PLA200 WBambu Lab wiki
Standby with Wi-Fi, top of the range8.2 WBambu Lab wiki
Maximum, at 110 V1,000 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
Wear and upkeep at $549Bambu Lab store$0.134

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 gives the P2S one printing figure, a PLA steady-state draw of 200 W, the same on a 220 V and a 110 V supply.Bambu Lab wiki
  • The P2S is rated at 1200 W maximum on 220 V and 1000 W on 110 V.Bambu Lab wiki

A worked quote: Planter · large

260 g of PLA, 9 hours on the machine, single colour, on PLA Basic at $14.99 for 1000 gBambu Lab store, sold on Etsy.

Filament$3.90
Electricity at 200 W$0.33
Machine wear and upkeep$1.21
Your time, 25 min at $28 an hour$11.67
Consumables$0.80
Failed-print reserve at 6%$0.37
What it costs you$18.27
Price at 60% markup$29.24
Etsy takes, at the app's starting estimate$3.23
You keep$7.74

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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