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Prusa CORE One+ electricity cost per hour

What a Prusa CORE One+ costs to run per hour on PLA and ABS, from Prusa's stated power consumption, with a worked quote for a 20-hour ABS lid.

What it draws

Average while printing PLA90 WPrusa
Average while printing ABS110 WPrusa

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$0.016
Electricity, ABS$0.020
Wear and upkeep at $1,299Prusa$0.259

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 Prusa Research

  • The CORE One+ has active chamber temperature control up to 55 °C, and Prusa states 110 W on ABS against 90 W on PLA.Prusa
  • Prusa lists the CORE One+ at $1,299 assembled and $999 as an assembly kit.Prusa

A worked quote: Enclosure lid · ABS

220 g of ABS, 20 hours on the machine, single colour, on ABS (refill) at $15.99 for 1000 gBambu Lab store, sold on Etsy.

Filament$3.52
Electricity at 110 W$0.40
Machine wear and upkeep$5.19
Your time, 25 min at $28 an hour$11.67
Consumables$0.80
Failed-print reserve at 6%$0.59
What it costs you$22.17
Price at 60% markup$35.46
Etsy takes, at the app's starting estimate$3.82
You keep$9.48

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.

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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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